Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 3090 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 67.160.138.107
| Posted on Thursday, February 16, 2006 - 3:01 pm: | |
Dateline, Windsor, Ontario, Canada. A smuggling ring that sometimes forced migrants to hang on the sides of freight trains or to be stuffed in car trunks to get across the Canadian-USA border was broken Tuesday with the arrests of 17 people, US and Canadian authorities said. US authorities said they intercepted 74 illegal immigrants, mostly from Asian and Eastern European countries, who were being smuggled into the USA from Canada. Altogether 23 people have been charged following a two-year investigation by the RCMP, the USA Homeland Security Dept., and the Canada Border Services Agency. The people charged include residents of Detroit area, Albion and Vicksburg, Michigan, Windsor and Toronto, and Rockford, Illinois. In a related story, jjaba has discovered that they were heading for Brokeback Mountain. The Wyoming Governor says he has plenty of room out there and "they'll fit right in." jjaba, World News. |
Wmuchris Member Username: Wmuchris
Post Number: 208 Registered: 06-2005 Posted From: 69.58.36.2
| Posted on Thursday, February 16, 2006 - 3:04 pm: | |
Yeah, I saw something about this on the news here in Kalamazoo last night. I was surprised that I didn't see anything in the papers before (not that I was exactly looking for it or anything.) In fact, the next time that I saw it is when Jjaba's World News broke it here. When did this story break in Detroit? |
Livernoisyard Member Username: Livernoisyard
Post Number: 74 Registered: 10-2004 Posted From: 69.242.223.42
| Posted on Thursday, February 16, 2006 - 3:05 pm: | |
But wasn't that film shot in Canada? |
Livernoisyard Member Username: Livernoisyard
Post Number: 75 Registered: 10-2004 Posted From: 69.242.223.42
| Posted on Thursday, February 16, 2006 - 3:06 pm: | |
I hear that story yesterday (during the day). |
Upinottawa Member Username: Upinottawa
Post Number: 198 Registered: 09-2005 Posted From: 198.103.184.76
| Posted on Thursday, February 16, 2006 - 3:14 pm: | |
News broke on Wednesday. Google "Windsor Detroit smuggling" in the "News" function. Or see below: http://www.canada.com/national post/news/story.html?id=69e534 07-8a20-44f5-9c55-122de9a8bdf0 &k=82848 |
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 3092 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 67.160.138.107
| Posted on Thursday, February 16, 2006 - 3:20 pm: | |
Tis right Cowboy Livernoisyard, Brokeback Mountain was shot in Alberta. (Made to look like Wyoming.) jjaba broke the story right here and now. He's in tight with the Horsemen over at RCMP,eh. Where do the thugs live in "Detroit area?" jjaba, Transborder News Dept. |
Jt1 Member Username: Jt1
Post Number: 6765 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 198.208.251.24
| Posted on Thursday, February 16, 2006 - 3:23 pm: | |
And I noticed that Sport is MIA. I think we know the identity of one of the smugglers. |
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 3093 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 67.160.138.107
| Posted on Thursday, February 16, 2006 - 3:25 pm: | |
Was Supersport one of the skippers of the fast boats running the Detroit River, Purple Gang style? Oy, hope he didn't go Eastside on an RCMP. jjaba, World News. |
Sailor_rick Member Username: Sailor_rick
Post Number: 109 Registered: 02-2004 Posted From: 12.2.192.223
| Posted on Thursday, February 16, 2006 - 4:17 pm: | |
Up in the cheap seats were I live in Marine City, there’s plenty of illegal immigrants getting busted. One Indian family was dropped off by the “coyotes” at a pay-phone, which the father used to call a taxi for Chicago. The quick-witted hack alerted the cops. Usually the sight of a family of Chinese walking around late at night carrying luggage is bound to raise suspicion. Heck, up here, I still get odd looks for driving a car with four matching hubcaps & a Draft Beer-Not Students bumper sticker. Sailor Rick, sitting next to his De Lux Selecta-Scope Teletype anxiously awaiting jjaba’s latest World News dispatch. |
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 3094 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 67.160.138.107
| Posted on Thursday, February 16, 2006 - 5:51 pm: | |
jjaba sees on the map that Marine City, Michigan has an international ferry boat across the international St. Clair River. Welcome to America, hailing a taxi from a phone booth to Chicago. After working for 10 yrs. at a Madras, India phone centre, no wonder the guy is calling for a cab from that phone booth. That's one thing he knows is how to use a phone. jjaba is reminded of Italian immigrant Pasquale who called his brother Angelo from Ellis Island. He wanted a ride to his new Michigan home. Living in Michigan UP near Escanaba, Angelo told Pasquale "I live Upper US, Upper US". jjaba, All the News That's Fit to Print. |
Harsensis Member Username: Harsensis
Post Number: 21 Registered: 07-2005 Posted From: 71.227.102.82
| Posted on Saturday, February 25, 2006 - 12:48 am: | |
We have a place on Harsens Island (hence the name) and they find groups of Chinese people walking along the road with suitcases every once in a while too. Late last summer a speedboat was out on the river with no lights on. He would go upriver and the border patrol would go down river. They went back a forth a few times, always in opposite directions. The border patrol guy said they were testing the waters to see who was watching them. I don't know why they run with their lights off, when they do that they stick out like a sore thumb. There is no way they can stop the smuggling though, the border is just to open. A few years ago they had a helicopter flighing up and down the river all night long, at least we don't have to hear that anymore. |