Illegals in Arkansas Complaining

Somebody's making a New Year's Resolution, and wants to run the Country!

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Acambaro chief to remain jailed on aliens charge BY MARK MINTON 12/28/07
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FAYETTEVILLE — A judge denied bail Thursday for the Mexican restaurateur at the center of an immigration case that Hispanic leaders denounced as a quest to rid Northwest Arkansas of “undesirables.” U. S. Magistrate Judge James Marschewski ruled that Arturo Reyes Jr. will remain jailed until trial on charges of harboring illegal aliens, while his wife, Silvia Reyes, was released on $ 25, 000 bond. No trial date was set. Before the hearing, members of a newly formed group criticized the government for what they consider selective enforcement. Empowering local police to enforce federal immigration laws was supposed to deter serious criminals, not target Hispanicowned business that hire illegal aliens, Hispanic business owners and community leaders said in a statement released before Thursday’s court hearing.
Activist Jim Miranda, who read the statement, said it was endorsed by about 20 people who met recently to discuss the Dec. 10 raid on Acambaro Mexican restaurants in Washington and Benton counties.

Agents seized more than $ 3 million in property, froze bank accounts and arrested 23 illegal aliens, including four of Acambaro’s operators. Besides Reyes and his wife, the government charged Armando Reyes and Lucila Huaracha with harboring illegal aliens to make profits for their business. The 19 who weren’t charged face deportation. It was the first high-visibility raid since area police were tapped for immigration enforcement under the 287 (g ) provision of federal immigration law. “We will not stand to be singled out for unfair treatment,” Miranda said. The new group complained not only about selective enforcement but agents’ treatment of the Reyes family. Agents “busted in” the door of Arturo Reyes Sr. ’s $ 465, 000 home in Rogers and rifled through his wife’s purse, Miranda told reporters outside the Federal Building. In the fifth-floor courtroom, Marschewski ruled Arturo Reyes Jr., was a risk to flee, partly because his family owns a substantial ranch in Mexico and has relatives living there. But he ruled that Reyes’ wife, Silvia, a mother of five who is pregnant, could be released until trial. The judge said evidence presented Thursday indicated that she was less involved in the business than her husband. Having five children in Northwest Arkansas, all U. S. citizens, also would tie her to the area. He ordered electronic surveillance. About three dozen Reyes family members, along with sup- porters, attended the detention hearing. Arturo Reyes Sr., 69, the family patriarch who founded the chain, sat in the front row. Reyes Sr., a legal U. S. resident who was not charged in the raid, declined to comment after the hearing.

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