WASHINGTON COUNTY : Task force arrest nets charge in U.S. court

BY MICHELLE BRADFORD (nwanews.com)
Posted on Saturday, October 6, 2007
http://www.nwanews.com/adg/News/203503/

The first person arrested by Northwest Arkansas’ newly formed immigration task force was charged Friday with a federal crime. Heriberto Gonzalez-Rodriguez, 44, was charged in U. S. District Court in Fayetteville with illegal re-entry by an aggravated felon. He’s being held without bond. A complaint alleges Gonzalez-Rodriguez returned to the United States after being deported to Mexico in 2006. He was arrested Sept. 24 when he went to the Washington County sheriff’s office (before going to the welfare office), to register as a sex offender (he must have been confident in the illegal alien lobby!) the complaint states. Police learned Gonzalez-Rodriguez was convicted in 1999 of sexual abuse in Benton County Circuit Court. Court papers filed in the federal case don’t show his sentence from the state court. Gonzalez-Rodriguez was deported in August 2006 (I guess we should assume he served 7 years?). At the time, he worked at Advanced Environmental Recycling Technologies in Springdale, court records show.

When he was arrested last month, Gonzalez-Rodriguez was working under his brother’s name at Superior Industries in Fayetteville. He was arrested by the Immigration Criminal Apprehension Task Force (A force that wouldn't exist if the ACLU/MALDEF/ Mexican Consular Office had it's way), made up of specially trained officers from the Washington and Benton County sheriff’s offices and the Springdale and Rogers police departments. Under the federal 287 (g ) program, 19 officers from four Northwest Arkansas law enforcement agencies are working with federal immigration agents to arrest and deport illegal aliens who are committing other crimes Authorities didn’t release Gonzalez-Rodriguez’s name until Friday when he was charged in federal court. The Washington County sheriff’s office said it was told by U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement that a federal regulation prohibits state or local agencies from releasing information about federal immigration detainees who are held in state or local jails. Sheriff’s spokesman Cpl. Jak Kimball said information can’t be released until a detainee is charged or arrested on suspicion of a crime. In Gonzalez-Rodriguez’s case, he was held on a civil immigration violation until Friday, when he was charged with a crime.

Can someone in the media please ask Advanced Environmental Recycling Technologies & Superior Industries how an illegal alien sex offender managed to get a job working for them and who else is working at these companies? What would be their response if Rodriguez had assaulted someone? I wonder if the media would care if these had been energy companies like Enron or Haliburtion?
The ACLU supports both sex offenders and illegal aliens, meaning Rodriguez is the kind of person they want to help. Don't be too suprised if a lawsuit occurs. The Mexican Consulate may claim he was racially profiled. Below is some information about these poor companies that either can't hire Americans or were fooled by an illegal dumb enough to walk into the sherriff's office. Anyway, thanks to the efforts of immigration reform activist, a sex criminal should be on his way to deportation instead of staying in Arkansas.
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Advanced Environmental Recycling Technologies-Gross Profit $20,245,000 for 2006
More financial info here:
http://www.nasdaq.com/asp/ExtendFund.asp?selected=AERT&symbol=AERT

Joe Brooks, President and CEO http://www.aertinc.com/index.aspP.O. Box 1237 Springdale, Arkansas 72765 Phone: 479-756-7400 Fax: 479-756 7410mailto:7410InvestorRelations@aertinc.com
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Superior Industries- Net Sales $ 789,862,000 for 2006
FAYETTEVILLE PLANT1901 Borick DriveFayetteville, Arkansas 72701 Phone: 479.443.7870 Fax: 479.443.4522
http://www.supind.com/index.html