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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrested Miguel Angel Torres, an illegal immigrant living in Austin, Texas, for the past fourteen years, during the recent Operation Cross Check roundup of criminal aliens. Itappearsimmigration officers arrested Torres while they were looking for his brother-in-law, a previously deported illegal alien, the Texas Tribune reported.

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[My husband] is a person whos never done anything wrong and who complies with the law, Irma Perez, the wife of the illegal immigrant, told the Texas news outlet. We dont know why they detained him. He was driving his own car, not my brothers. He has nothing to do with my brother.

Texas law does not allow a person who does not have legal status in the U.S. to obtain a driver license or legally operate a motor vehicle.

Perez, who admitted she is also an illegal immigrant, said her husband drove to their daughters school to deliver a Valentines Day box of chocolates. Agents who stopped Torres asked if he was Jose Manuel Perez, his wifes brother. It appears officers checked his identity and learned he was in the country illegally and placed him in custody.

Operation Cross Check is a law enforcement action planned to round up criminal aliens and process them for removal proceedings. While the operation targets criminals, gang members, and others who violate immigration laws, ICE officials acknowledged that non-criminals could be caught up in the net.

During targeted enforcement operations ICE officers frequently encounter additional suspects who may be in the United States in violation of federal immigration laws, ICE officials said in a written statement obtained by Breitbart Texas. Those persons will be evaluated on a case by case basis and, when appropriated, arrested by ICE.

In this case, it appears the ICE officers were searching for Perez brother, Jose Manuel Perez, an illegal alien she admitted had been previously deported. She did not say why he had been deported, or how many times he faced deportation.

When ICE officers stopped Torres, they asked if he was Perez. Irma Perez said she believe the officers had followed Torres from their home to the school. She believed they might be staking out her home because she had provided her address to law enforcement officials when she paid off her brothers traffic fines.

Perez immigration lawyer Mark Kinzler told the Texas Tribune reporter, They were looking, apparently, for someone else, and he wasnt that person, but then they took him anyway. He seemed to expect that immigration officers would just ignore the law when they found out Torres was illegally present in the U.S.

Even though ICEs PR campaign is that theyre picking up criminals and picking up people with prior deports, and Im sure some of them are, it already seems like a lot of them are not those people, Kinzler continued. People who work every day and try to take care of their families are getting swept up.

The targeted immigration enforcement operation picked up 51 foreign nationals in the Austin area during the two-day action, Breitbart Texas reported. At least 23 of those arrested had criminal convictions. Those included a Mexican national previously deported following a conviction for aggravated assault; a Salvadoran national who pleaded guilty to sexual assault of a child; and another Mexican national convicted of domestic violence as a repeat offender, information obtained by Breitbart Texas from ICE officials revealed. In addition to criminal aliens, the officers were also targeting those with pending court-ordered removal status and those who had been previously deported, like Perez, and known to be back in the country.

Breitbart Texas Managing Director and Editor-in-Chief Brandon Darby contributed to this article. He co-founded the Cartel Chronicles project with Ildefonso Ortiz and Stephen K. Bannon. Follow him onTwitterandFacebook.

Bob Priceserves as associate editor and senior political news contributor for Breitbart Texas. He is a founding member of the Breitbart Texas team. Follow him on Twitter@BobPriceBBTX.

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Carrying signs and demanding an end to immigration raids, thousands of protesters descended on downtown Los Angeles on Saturday to march in support of immigrant rights.

Crowds of protesters taking part in an event billed as the Free the People immigration march gathered at 11 a.m. at Pershing Square, then made their way to Los Angeles City Hall, by way of Broadway, with people filling the streets several blocks at a time, eventually gathering on the steps of City Hall and in Grand Park.

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Miguel Mendez, 15, carried his younger brother, who waved an American flag, on his shoulder as he marched down Broadway.

I have an illegal father, Mendez said. My biggest fear is for my little brother to grow up without a dad, for him not to experience what I experienced, growing up with my dad.

Mendez said his father, now 40 years old, crossed through the desert from Mexico with his grandmother as a 5-year-old.

The family depends on the father, who runs a demolition business, to be one of the breadwinners, along with his mother, a paralegal, he said.

The recent news of raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents has been on the forefront of his mind, he added.

I start overthinking, he said. I get sad, and it scares me.

Jessica Ortiz, 37, of Riverside says she is supporting sanctuary for undocumented immigrants because my parents migrated here. Ive seen them work hard and make their way up. This is my way of paying back and contributing to their cause.

Ortiz is a government employee who works in the welfare office and says, I know for a fact that illegal immigrants arent on welfare. They dont qualify for benefits.

It bothers me that part of the argument against immigrants is that theyre taking our resources, but they really arent.

Organizers of the march also were demanding that local leaders officially designate Los Angeles a sanctuary city and issued a declaration that read, Many local elected officials have demonstrated a lack of urgency while riding the wave of the mass anti-Trump movement. Some have tossed around the term sanctuary without working towards meaningful sanctuary policies to protect and promote the welfare of the people of Los Angeles. Some others (notably, Mayor Garcetti) have been buckling to Trumps empty threats to defund sanctuary cities.

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Henry Willis called on Garcetti to step up.

Hes running away from the problem, the 64-year-old labor attorney said. Thats not a profile in courage.

His wife, Debbie, 64, a graphic designer, added that the immigrants need to hear it from him (Garcetti), that hes got their backs.

I dont know who it is hes trying to placate by not saying that were a sanctuary city, but everybody believes we are anyway he might as well say it, she said.

The gathering was organized in protest of President Donald Trump, who has vowed to deport millions of undocumented immigrants.

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Shortly after taking office, Trump moved forward on his campaign promises by signing two sweeping executive orders on immigration, which called for building a border wall, cutting federal funding to sanctuary cities that protect undocumented immigrants, and banning entry into the U.S. of people from seven Muslim-majority countries.

Saturdays march followed an ICE operation earlier this month that resulted in 161 arrests in six Southern California counties.

The arrests were part of a nationwide effort to deport criminals who are in the country illegally. Immigration activists have said the sweeps were part of the Trump administrations hard-line stance on undocumented immigrants, though ICE officials denied it.

On Monday, protesters are expected to take part in another anti-Trump march called the Not My Presidents Day rally.

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Undocumented immigrants in the US are jumping the border into Canada, where they hope theyll be treated more humanely than under the Trump administration, according to reports.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police are citing an influx of illegal border crossings, especially into Quebec province from upstate New York, according to a National Public Radio report.

One of the biggest entry points is from the small town of Champlain, where the Mounties patrol the other side and arrest the travelers as they come over.

But the immigrants are often released within 24 hours and can live in the country while pressing their immigration cases.

Witnesses told NPR that whole families can be seen approaching the border and willingly getting arrested.

Theyll be walking down the road with suitcases and backpacks, one witness, Matthew Turner, said.

The station witnessed a woman with a baby and a black suitcase walking toward the Canadian officers from the New York side on Wednesday.

You have to go through the, the custom, the borderbut if you do cross here, youll be arrested and then well take you in charge, OK? the officer told the woman, according to the report.

The woman nodded and stepped toward the mounted officers, who offered to help carry her baby and then helped her cross over, the report said.

Cpl. Camille Habel, a spokeswoman with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, told NPR theres been quite an increase in people walking through illegally.

She said after the border-crosser is arrested, they can be detained for up to 24 hours before theyre released or presented in front of a judge.

Immigrants may be avoiding official entry points because they risk being turned away or given over to US authorities.

The illegal crossings are happening all along the Canadian border, but the largest influx is into Quebec, according to NPR.

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A Washington state senator is demanding to know why a police officer is in hot water for alerting federal immigration authorities of the whereabouts ofa previously deported convicted felon.

Theofficer encountered the illegal immigrant at the scene of an accident, and was completing a routine check on his drivers license when an alertpopped up from Immigration and Customs Enforcementsayingthe man was a convicted felon and had previously been deported, reports The News Tribune. The trooper contacted ICEto confirm the details, and federal immigration officials came to the scene and detained the man, Armando Chavez Corona. He had not caused the accident.

He had been deported four times between 1996 and 2000, according to ICE officials, and had been convicted on a felony drug charge. A spokesman for the officer said he was not arrested by local authorities or detained at the scene of the accident in order to ensure his arrest by federal officials. Chavez Corona is now awaiting deportation.

The State Patrol, however, launched a review of whether the officer followed an internal policy that instructs police not to go out of their way to help federal immigration officials, such as by stopping or detaining someone solely to determine their immigration status. After Washington state Sen.Steve OBan learned of the review, he sent a letterto Democrat Gov. Jay Inslee to express serious concerns about the matter. The review is puzzling, if not deeply concerning, he wrote to Inslee.

I fear launching an administrative review of this routine and common-sense procedure sends a chilling message to WSP troopers and to other law enforcement personnel that undermines public safety by discouraging officers from gaining potentially vital information from federal authorities, he added.

A spokesman for the State Patrol noted the officer has not been disciplined in any way, and stressed the review is routine.

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Based on what Im seeing daily in the mainstream media (and in some of our recent Super Bowl ads) it appears that it has now become racist/xenophobic (if not downright evil) to deny illegal immigrants U.S. residence including most of the benefits of citizenship. So, having spent the first 30 years of my life on the U.S./Mexican border (El Paso/Juarez), I thought Id share a couple of my hometown observations.

One of the first things one used to notice when crossing into Juarez (I say used to because very few El Pasoans now risk that very short drive) is that besides the poverty, all the homes have bars on all their windows. All of them.

Another was the pervasive culture of the mordida the bite. Rare was the Juarez official from traffic cops on up who couldnt be bribed, and such a culture pretty much guarantees highly dysfunctional government. Both of these observations could be blamed on the poverty, but there is a chicken or egg question here: Does the poverty create the culture or does the culture create the poverty? Quien sabe?

Either way, there seems to be a glaring dichotomy between how pleasant and hardworking our local illegal immigrants are and what disasters their countries of origin are. Those nations all seem to be crime-ridden, poverty-stricken, gang/cartel-infested and ruled by inept, corrupt governments. This Latin American commonality begs a question in my politically incorrect mind: Isnt there a distinct possibility if millions upon millions of illegal immigrants continue crossing the border that these same cultural dysfunctions will begin to manifest themselves here? Along that line, Lt. Governor Dan Patrick of Texas stated this week that between 2008 and 2012 Texas arrested 147,000 people identified as hardened criminals who were here illegally. They were charged with over 440,000 crimes.

Here in Greenport, at this point in time, there seems to be no question that the immigrant community is a blessing in many ways, and Im not for deporting anyone except criminals. But I am certain that if the left continues to indulge in its nave fantasy that open borders are good for America, and leftist judges and politicians continue to make it impossible to control the border, we are going to regret it deeply.

Sanctuary cities are not only in blatant defiance of federal law no less wrong than 1960s southerners defying school integration but are a disturbing example of a powerful and dangerous current now flowing through the left: that it is not our elected representatives who will determine what is legal or illegal, but rather it is ones own compassion, ones personal sentiments, that will make that determination.

The roots of this lawlessness are those two mean-spirited children of the late 1960s: Political Correctness and his twin sister Identity Politics. Their mischief, besides dividing America into separate tribes (often via activist judicial fiat), also tends to be quite harsh on dissenters, at best labeling them haters, and at worst attempting to destroy their livelihoods/careers.

Years ago I ran across a Peanuts cartoon strip with four panels. The first shows Lucy standing in a light sprinkle, smiling. The second has Lucy standing in a slightly heavier rain, saying Happiness is feeling the wind and rain in your hair. The third panel has Lucy standing in a heavy rain, looking unhappy. The last panel has her standing in a deluge, looking miserable, and saying sort of. So, perhaps its all simply a matter of degree. Too much of many good things alcohol, sun, water, etc. can kill you.

Ill close with this quote from the Manhattan Institutes Theodore Dalrymple: Societies fall apart when (among other causes) their ruling elites become persuaded that generosity of spirit and broad-mindedness are the only true virtues, even if they result in paralysis in the face of disorder, with all the accompanying miseries of those who suffer it.

P.S. Before any over-zealous readers rush to brand me as a hater, Id like to mention that both my children are married to Hispanics and I consequently have several Hispanic grandchildren all, Im happy to say, descended from a long line of legal immigrants.

Photo caption: Southold Town Police Chief Martin Flatley speaks at event titled Synergy Greenport late last month. (Credit: Krysten Massa)

Hugh Prestwood is an award-winning songwriter from Greenport.

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