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Illegal alien, 18, charged with having sex with girl, 12

PALMETTO - An 18-year-old Palmetto man is accused of having sex with a 12-year-old girl who he picked up after she ran away from home around noon Sunday.

Gavino Guitierez, of 4003 3rd Ave. Blvd. E., told authorities he had sex with the girl three times. He also admitted that he is an illegal immigrant from Mexico, according to a Manatee County Sheriff’s report.

The girl returned home at about 6 p.m. Sunday and deputies were waiting to question her about where she had been. The girl said she was with Guitierez and had sex with him, according to a report.

Guitierez is being held on three counts of felony lewd and lascivious battery with a $150,000 bond. He also has an immigration hold on him, according to a report.

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Owners of 11 McDonald's in Nevada plead guilty to helping illegal aliens get fake social security numbers

RENO, Nev. (AP) - Two executives and the corporation that owns 11 McDonald's restaurants in northern Nevada pleaded guilty Wednesday to felony immigration charges stemming from raids last fall.

Agents for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 56 people in Reno, Sparks and Fernley last September after serving 12 court-ordered search warrants at the restaurants and franchise offices in Reno.

At a federal court hearing Wednesday in Las Vegas, attorneys for Mack Associates Inc., which owns the restaurants, pleaded guilty on behalf of the franchise to two felony counts, including conspiracy to encourage an alien's unlawful residence in the United States and aiding and abetting an alien to remain here, authorities said.

Authorities charged that Mack Associates' management employed people they knew were in the country illegally by furnishing them with names and Social Security numbers belonging to others.

Under a plea agreement, the franchise will pay $1 million in fines.

Luther Mack, owner of Mack Associates, was not charged, authorities said.

"This case should serve as a reminder to employers that knowingly hiring illegal aliens violates federal law," Nevada U.S. Attorney Gregory Brower said.

"Companies and their managers who engage in such conduct are on notice that violations will be prosecuted and that the criminal penalties can be significant."

Mack Associates lawyer Robert Goldman issued a statement, saying the company cooperated in the investigation and accepts responsibility.

Operation's director Joe Gillespie, 53, of Sparks, pleaded guilty to one count of aiding and abetting an alien.

Jimmy Moore, the franchise's former vice president, pleaded guilty to inducing an illegal alien to remain in the U.S.

Both face up to five years in prison and $250,000 in fines when sentenced by U.S. District Judge James Mahan, Brower said. Sentencing was set for October.

Anntoinette Richmond, 44, the corporation's controller, faces one misdemeanor count of continuing employment of an unauthorized alien, Brower said. Her court date in Reno has not been set.

Of the illegal immigrants arrested during the raids, federal authorities said about 30 were returned to their native countries. The others were provided documentation that allowed them to remain in the United States pending the outcome of the criminal investigation, authorities said.

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Illegal Alien Charged in Rape Case

In the early morning hours of July 13, St. Mary’s County Bureau of Criminal Investigations detectives charged Alverio Dominguez, 24 with no fixed address, with second-degree rape and second-degree assault.

The arrest came as a result of an investigation into a rape which occurred on July 12 at approximately 10 p.m. in Lexington Park. Detectives determined that the suspect, who was unfamiliar to the victim or anyone else at the home, saw a social gathering outside of the 23 year old victim’s residence and walked over to the yard to participate.

He entered the victim’s bedroom after she left the gathering to go to sleep and assaulted her. He fled to a nearby residence when another person at the home heard the victim calling for help and attempted to enter the locked bedroom.
Deputies located Dominguez hiding under a bed and took him into custody.

The victim was treated at St. Mary’s Hospital. Dominguez, who is an illegal alien, was incarcerated at the St. Mary’s County Detention Center.

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Welfare money going to illegal aliens

It’s an outrage. It’s a scandal. It’s un-American. And something must be done. What is it?

It’s the army of illegal aliens getting fat off state welfare benefits. Or, at least that’s what earnest callers and letter-writers contend in their regular communications on the subject. Few things seem to rankle readers more than the idea that people here illegally are collecting benefits traditionally reserved for taxpaying citizens.

With the state budget facing a crisis and the economy on the skids, lately I have been reminded more than usual of the unreported costs generated by the undocumented in our midst. Complaints that come in sporadically in fat times greatly increase in frequency and volume when the governor calls for more than $1 billion in state budget cuts.

Polls indicate most Nevadans long ago made up their minds about the aliens among them. A Public Opinion Strategies survey taken in April 2006 provides a substantive baseline for the Silver State’s immigration mind-set. Pollster Glen Bolger found 88 percent of voters saw themselves concerned “about the issue of illegal immigration.” And 76 percent saw a candidate’s stance on the issue as something they would likely consider before voting.

When it comes to receiving a cherished benefit such as the Millennium Scholarship, 67 percent of Nevadans surveyed believed illegal immigrants should be excluded. And another 74 percent believed it should be a felony for businesses to hire illegals. Only half of those polled agreed that children of illegal immigrants should be able to pay in-state college tuition.

In other words, Nevadans harbored strong feelings about illegal immigration, most of it negative.

But while the presence of undocumented immigrants in the community may add costs to everything from the county hospital and public education to police service and courtroom calendar calls, it doesn’t seem to have crippled Nevada’s traditionally tight-fisted welfare system.

I know that won’t sit well with those who dream of an impenetrable border fence and believe illegal immigration is bankrupting the nation. I’m sure the letters are being written before the ink dries on this column.

There’s no shortage of outrage, but in this area there’s no great scandal. At least that’s the view of Nevada Division of Welfare and Supportive Services administrator Nancy Ford. Her office processes claims for things like federal food stamps and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families dollars.

The first common misconception is that illegal immigrant adults are allowed to collect temporary assistance funds, Ford says. They’re not. Undocumented adults are banned by law, and documented adults are banned for five years.

Their children, however, can receive TANF help. And, obviously, their parents would be allowed access to the dollars.

Of the 21,043 people in Nevada receiving TANF money as of my recent interview, Ford says 2,350 of those are “citizen children of both documented and undocumented aliens.” There were 831 immigrant families in the system last month.

There’s no way around the fact, Ford says, “the adults are going to get the check because the kids aren’t going to be able to pay rent and buy food.”

Just how much do these children receive?

It’s $306.62 a month per family for the first child and $50 for each additional child.

That’s not much incentive to start producing progeny.

“I would say it’s probably not cost-effective to have more children,” Ford says. “I think the public has a misconception that undocumented aliens are eligible for these programs. They’re not.”

Nor, she adds, are the noncitizen children of undocumented immigrants.

Here is where state welfare sources tell me they see a problem. They tell me it can be much more difficult and time-consuming for citizens with proper identification to receive benefits than it is for immigrants with no proof of citizenship for their children.

Although no one is turned away at the county hospital, Ford says, only the children of illegal immigrants are eligible for emergency medical care.

All this doesn’t mean documented and undocumented immigrants don’t generate a cost to the state’s welfare service or that there aren’t folks gaming the system. But that cost should be kept in perspective when people start shouting about an immigrant scandal in state welfare.

Of course, your definition of scandal also depends on your view of immigration.

Let the letter writing begin.

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Need for court interpreters grows with illegal alien population

DALTON, Ga. — A son of missionary parents, Kevin Williams returned to the United States from Colombia almost 10 years ago to follow his family’s other vocational path as an interpreter.

“My family has always worked in the area of interpreting or teaching English. I grew up in that environment,” said Mr. Williams. He is now the Spanish language interpreter for the Conasauga Judicial Circuit, including city courts, probate and magistrate courts, as well as Superior Court.

Mr. Williams first starting interpreting for the two-county circuit in 2000, after José Aymat, the previous interpreter, told him about the need in the community.

“It makes me feel happy. You are an instrument that the courts can use to communicate with the Hispanic defendants,” he said. “It’s also very important for the defendants because when it comes to court, the interpreter is their only way to communicate.”

INCREASING NEED

The need for court interpreters in Whitfield County has grown steadily in the past 10 years, said Kermit McManus, district attorney for the Conasauga Judicial Circuit.

“I doubt there have been 10 days of criminal court work in Whitfield County in the last 10 years where we didn’t have at least one non-English-speaking person who we needed to have an interpreter for, whether he was the defendant, the witness or the victim, to testify or speak to the judge in the courtroom,” the prosecutor said.

“We have (interpreters) in the courtroom whenever we have criminal court, and it’s because the Hispanic population in this area has grown tremendously and crime is a byproduct of growth ...” Mr. McManus said.

In Murray County, Mr. McManus said the need for interpreters in the courts is a recent phenomenon.

“That’s because the influx (of Hispanics) in (the) county has come to the point where we have non-English speaking people most of the time we have court.”

The Conasauga Judicial Circuit has had a contract with an interpreter, currently Mr. Williams, for about 10 years, Chief Superior Court Judge William Boyett said.

He said Murray County has an interpreter on call who is paid by the hour.

Having a court interpreter in criminal cases is so important, Judge Boyett said, a proceeding can be postponed if an interpreter is not present and the defendant doesn’t speak English.

Mr. Williams said there are only three interpreters serving the Conasauga Judicial Circuit, including him, but said the needs of both counties are being met.

RECENT SLOWDOWN

Some interpreters and courts officials said the need for interpreting services has slowed in the past year.

“Because of anti-immigrant legislation since 2005, and again last year and this year, we are seeing a number of Latinos going away ... to other states or their home countries,” said Adrian Bernal, a registered court interpreter in Atlanta and member of the board of directors of the Atlanta Association of Interpreters and Translators, who has been interpreting since 2002.

Although legal residents also require Hispanic interpreting services from time to time, he said from his own experience it’s mainly undocumented immigrants who are in need of these services.

Mr. McManus said he has also noticed the need for interpreters has slightly decreased this year.

“There are those that speculate that many of the Hispanics have left our area because of a downturn in the economy and have moved to other places where the downturn is not as severe, (but) that may or may not be true,” he said.

“We still are working the same way we were this time last year in terms of the kind of cases we do, the number of cases we are dealing with. Whether or not we need an interpreter is not an issue anymore, we just have one.”

CHANGING THE COURTS

Mr. McManus said the need for interpreters has changed court operations.

“It has made everything much slower to handle any particular case in the courtroom because, having to go through interpreters, lawyers have to go slower, judges have to go slower, to make sure that even though they (defendants) are not speaking English, they understand what’s going on and what they’re saying is accurately reflected in the record,” said the district attorney.

He said budgeting for interpreting services also has had an impact on the courts.

Whitfield County budgeted $70,000 for 2008 to pay for interpreting services, up from $43,000 in 2002, said Conasauga Judicial Circuit Court Administrator Brad Butler.

Murray County spent $1,325 on interpreter services in 2003 and budgeted $3,300 for 2008, Mr. Butler said.

He noted the court system in Whitfield County operates with revenue generated from taxpayers in the county and with a budget that is approved by county commissioners.

“But having said that,” Mr. McManus added, the fact that they are non-English speakers “has not impacted negatively on our court system. We are still dealing with the cases, we are just going a little slower.”

Mr. Williams said he doesn’t think having an interpreter has to slow down the system. He said it all depends on the quality of the interpreter, and if they are interpreting simultaneously or consecutively.

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