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Hundreds Riot at LA Detention Center for Illegal Immigrants

Wednesday, April 23, 2008 11:00 PM

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LANCASTER, Calif.—Hundreds of illegal immigrants awaiting deportation rioted at a county-run detention center and had to be subdued with tear gas, authorities said Wednesday.

The riot Tuesday started as a fight between detainees from rival gangs and spread to the detention center’s outdoor yard, said Virginia Kice, a spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Nearby sheriff’s stations sent additional deputies to separate the detainees. The brawl was diffused “within minutes” after tear gas was used, said sheriff’s spokesman Steve Whitmore.

Fights among incarcerated gang members periodically break out at state jails, prisons and immigrant detention facilities, sometimes sparking riots.

The federal Department of Homeland Security contracts with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department to staff and manage the Mira Loma Detention Center in Lancaster, which holds about 900 detainees who are in the process of being deported or awaiting resolution of their cases in immigration courts.

Ten detainees were treated for injuries, including two who suffered serious head injuries.

Sheriff’s officials will evaluate how Mira Loma guards separate detainees based on gang affiliation, Whitmore said. About 45 detainees involved in the riot have been identified as suspected gang members and moved to other federal facilities.

© 2008 Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. 

We could give them a lot of sharp knives, and lots of booze and let them have at it.  Might solve a lot of problems.
I am sure they are just mis-understood.

Sheriff’s officials will evaluate how Mira Loma guards separate detainees based on gang affiliation, Whitmore said.

Hopefully they will take opposing gang members, lock them up together en masse, and provide ample sharp objects.

Send their sorry WETBACK asses to Sheriff Amparo in Pheonix. He’ll straighten their worthless asses out!

PowerDad - 25 April 2008 12:38 AM

Send their sorry WETBACK asses to Sheriff Amparo in Pheonix. He’ll straighten their worthless asses out!

You’re a racist slimebag.

Priest? As in Catholic?...Ah...well , we know how much you catholics like those illegal mexicans don’t we? Fresh source of money for your pedophile lawsuits? Hey, maybe the Catholic Church can start sending out Wetback Welfare Checks?..Instead of regular citizens having to pay for your catholic GUILT!

Looks like the gaurds missed a wonderful oportunity to eliminate a major problem. I would have issued the gaurds 500 rounds each of hollow point ammo, with shoot to kill orders. I wouldn’t ever let criminal scum like that try to take over my jail. If they had done that you would never hear of a riot taking place by that scum ever again. Ever hear of Attica? Not in the last 25 years you haven’t.

PowerDad - 25 April 2008 09:07 AM

Priest? As in Catholic?...Ah...well , we know how much you catholics like those illegal mexicans don’t we? Fresh source of money for your pedophile lawsuits? Hey, maybe the Catholic Church can start sending out Wetback Welfare Checks?..Instead of regular citizens having to pay for your catholic GUILT!

Before you go off on one of your religious flights of fancy please read post #1.Catholics are not the priests involved in that scandal. Try to keep up.

Flight of fancy my aching ass! Priests of any kind...specially catholic priests are not someone I care to take criticism from Especially in light of their pedophile association. Even their own POPE is embarrassed of them.

Mighty - 26 April 2008 11:11 PM

Flight of fancy my aching ass! Priests of any kind...specially catholic priests are not someone I care to take criticism from Especially in light of their pedophile association. Even their own POPE is embarrassed of them.

Please keep better track of your multiple identities.

We could just start a auto draft for all illegal/green card holders and send them to the Army. Then it would be mandatory they be sent overseas to the war. If they gripe about that, well, they don’t get a gun. The government could start by sending all the ones in jail first. They like to fight so they want need a gun. If they are a gang member they will get no Army training and no gun, but sent to the war anyway. Besides all the ones that get auto drafted if they want U.S. Citizenship that will be three to six more years in the Army. That would be just to start their citizenship process plus they would have to do all their Army time in the war. 
We will have to be willing to pay the cost for all the repairs to that border fence.  Then there will be the lose of all the water that will be stomped out of the Rio Grand River when they all make the run for Mexico.
And the Government is worried about how they can find all these people.  Just pay a reward for turning them in to start with. Then draft them from there.

rxrj...I’m voting for you for president.

This is hilarious, I heard nothing about this on any LA county tv, radio or newspaper...maybe if there was a LA county lockdown that DIDN’T riot that would be news…

The Yell - 28 April 2008 12:45 PM

This is hilarious, I heard nothing about this on any LA county tv, radio or newspaper...maybe if there was a LA county lockdown that DIDN’T riot that would be news…

Better security are those pre-fabbed stainless cells. No bars, just a bulletproof window. They can control how many inmates are allowed out at the same time, and which. If you had only fifteen unarmed men in a cafeteria and ten armed guards, it would seem a situation easy to control. If you have 200 milling about as if getting ready for a football game, and 30 guards, that’s different.

It just sounds as if they ran it as loose, open compound, with everyone just sort of milling about instead being locked down. That encourages a few to stage a revolt, or makes even one ad hoc much more possible.