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Newspaper Page TextMarch 3, 2017 CapitalPress.com ICE removals of illegal aliens 369,221 409,849 389,834 392,862 396,906 368,644 240,255: Up 2% from FY2015, Down 24% from FY2014 315,943 235,413 Many Central Valley farms to get full federal water supplies By TIM HEARDEN Capital Press NOTE: Includes returns where aliens were turned over to ICE for removal efforts. FY2008 FY ’10 FY ’12 Source: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement FY ’14 FY2016 Alan Kenaga/Capital Press ICE operation appears routine, but raises ire By ERIC MORTENSON Capital Press The action of federal Im- migration and Customs En- forcement agents who detained multiple people after stopping a pair of worker transport vans near Woodburn, Ore., last week may have been a routine operation, but it hap- pened in an acrimonious polit- ical atmosphere that had civil rights groups blaming it on the Trump administration’s bellig- erence toward immigrants. An ICE spokeswoman said agents initially were after two people, both of whom had multiple prior arrests and one of whom had a prior convic- tion, when they stopped the vehicles on a highway outside Woodburn on Feb. 24. Agents detained 11 people on allega- tions they were in the coun- try illegally; seven of them remained in custody Feb. 28. Four were let go because an immigration judge had previ- ously released them on bond pending removal proceedings, the ICE spokeswoman said. As far as ICE was con- cerned, the action was routine. People who are in the country illegally and have criminal re- cords are among the highest priority for apprehension and removal, according to the De- partment of Homeland Secu- rity. “Deportation ofﬁ cers con- duct enforcement actions ev- ery day around the country and in Oregon as part of the agen- cy’s ongoing efforts to uphold public safety and border se- curity,” an ICE spokeswoman said in a prepared statement. “Our operations are targeted and lead driven, prioritizing individuals who pose a risk to our communities.” But the action comes amid heightened political tension over border security and illegal immigration. Paciﬁ c North- west agriculture has a major stake in the outcome, as many sectors rely on pruning, har- vest or processing crews that are heavily immigrant, legal or not. ICE provided a link to a Homeland Security memoran- dum that implements Trump’s executive order on immigra- tion enforcement. The memo calls for hiring 10,000 more ICE agents and prioritizes enforcement action against aliens who have been con- victed of any crime, charged with a crime but not resolved, committed fraud or “willful misrepresentation” with a government agency or abused any program to receive public beneﬁ ts. It also authorizes re- moval of anyone who “in the judgment of an immigration ofﬁ cer” poses a risk to public safety or national security. But the Portland ofﬁ ce of American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker group, and the farmworker and for- estry labor union Pineros y Compesinos Unidos del No- roeste (PCUN) criticized the action. Pedro Sosa, spokesman for the American Friends group, said in his opinion ICE has in- creased its activity and is act- ing more aggressively since President Trump signed the order. Sosa said that’s created “more fear in our community.” The immigrant advocacy groups said they were “deeply concerned” about such stops and arrests and their impact on schools, the local economy and security. The groups denounced the “racist policies” of Trump that “criminalize and scapegoat hardworking immigrants and divide Americans.” Details provided by ICE and by the immigrant advocacy groups varied somewhat. American Friends and PCUN said 19 people were detained in the operation and 10 were released. They said the workers were on their way to forest jobs picking baby’s breath, a decorative plant used in ﬂ ower arrangements, when they were stopped. Rhetoric aside, it’s too ear- ly to know how the Trump ad- ministration’s immigration en- forcement numbers will stack up against the Obama adminis- tration’s. The Department of Home- land Security apprehended 530,250 people in the 2016 ﬁ scal year, President Obama’s last year in ofﬁ ce. That was about 60,000 more than during the 2015 ﬁ scal year. The ﬁ gures include apprehensions by the U.S. Border Patrol and by ICE. A former Paciﬁ c North- west business consultant who has studied the issue said the Obama administration targeted known criminals for arrest and deportation and didn’t both- er with others that might get caught up in raids. “Trump just told ICE to go after criminals, but if there are others there, take them too,” the former con- sultant said. “Familial considerations,” such as having children in the country, no longer apply in de- tention and deportation deci- sions, he said. “There are agricultural workers in Idaho who are afraid to go to the grocery store or go see their kids play in an athletic event,” he said. “It is a shame.” The former consultant asked not to be identiﬁ ed because he is not authorized by his current employer to make public state- ments on the issue. However, he has experience in immigra- tion and agricultural issues. Based on a description of the ICE trafﬁ c stops in Or- egon and the type of job the workers were headed to, he said the people taken into cus- tody were probably day work- ers who may not have been in the country long. 3 SACRAMENTO — Full reservoirs and an abundant snowpack have enabled the Central Valley Project to prom- ise full allocations of water to many valley farms, federal ofﬁ - cials announced Feb. 28. Citrus growers in the east- ern San Joaquin Valley’s Friant division will get 100 percent of their contracted supplies after most went without federal sur- face water in 2014 and 2015 and received 75 percent last year. “We are extremely pleased with that announcement,” said Laura Brown, director of government affairs for the Ex- eter-based California Citrus Mutual. “We were expecting it with all the rain we’ve had.” Among others promised their full supplies are customers of the Central San Joaquin Val- ley Conservation District and Stockton East Water District and urban customers in the Sac- ramento area and eastern San Francisco Bay area served by water from the American River. Settlement contractors on the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers were told in mid-February they would get their full supplies based on the volume of inﬂ ow to Shasta Lake, ofﬁ cials said. The agency will wait until mid-March to determine other allocations, including those for the west side of the San Joaquin Valley, which received only 5 percent last summer despite late-season storms that provid- ed more water elsewhere. Several factors will deter- mine the remaining allocations, said Ron Milligan, a U.S. Bu- reau of Reclamation operations manager in Sacramento. They include the state Department of Water Resources third man- ual snowpack survey, which was set for March 1, as well as reservoir levels and hydrologic conditions, he said. But Milligan and other fed- eral ofﬁ cials acknowledged in a conference call with report- ers that the delay is also partly caused by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administra- tion’s failure to complete its ﬁ sheries’ temperature manage- ment plan for Shasta Lake. The plan could require more water to be kept in the lake this sum- mer to provide cold water for federally protected winter-run chinook salmon. “Growers are making their Tim Hearden/Capital Press Shasta Lake was 85 percent full and at 117 percent of its historical average as of Feb. 27. Full reservoirs and abundant snowpack have enabled the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to give full water allocations to many farmers in California’s Central Valley. planting decisions now,” said Ryan Jacobsen, the Fresno County Farm Bureau’s chief executive ofﬁ cer. “Farmers cannot make choices on what might be an allocation. … They need real numbers.” Jacobsen said Westside growers aren’t expecting a full allocation, which he said is “unacceptable” considering that snowpack levels in most areas are more than 150 percent of normal and outﬂ ow from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta has totaled more than 24 million acre-feet since October. Hundreds of thousands of acres on the Westside have been fal- lowed in recent years because of a lack of water. But Pablo Arroyave, Rec- lamation’s acting Mid-Paciﬁ c regional director, said the lack of an allocation for the West- 12 month waiver side now doesn’t mean the area won’t get water. He said the agency will take advantage of the current hydrology to try to get as much water as possible to districts. A substantial amount of CVP water is already in stor- age south of the Delta, and federal share of the San Luis Reservoir west of Los Banos, Calif., is expected to be full within the ﬁ rst week of March, ofﬁ cials said. Given the large snowpack and high river ﬂ ows this year, much of the water already in storage will be available for delivery to CVP contractors this spring and summer, they said. For the CVP overall, this was the ﬁ rst year of wide- spread 100 percent allocations for agriculture since 2006, 3 years at 1.9% ofﬁ cials said. The Friant Di- vision’s supply comes as Mil- lerton Lake near Fresno was at 82 percent of capacity and 126 percent of normal as of Feb. 27, prompting dam operators to boost releases to make room for a big anticipated snowmelt. The full allocation applies to the division’s Class 1 cus- tomers, or the most senior land- owners, while customers may take Class 2 supplies as long as the ramped-up releases from Millerton Lake continue, the bureau noted in a news release. The bureau typically an- nounces its initial allocations in mid-February, although it wait- ed until April 1 last year to take into account anticipated storms in March while giving infor- mal reports to water districts, spokesman Shane Hunt said at the time. The 2016-17 water year has been “extreme” so far, prompt- ing Reclamation to take “an approach to the announcement of CVP water allocations this year that differs from our his- toric practice,” Arroyave said. In future years, the agency will strive to release initial alloca- tions for all water users in Feb- ruary, he said. The State Water Project ini- tially allocated 20 percent of contracted supplies in late No- vember and has so far upped its anticipated deliveries to at least 60 percent of requested supplies. The last time the proj- ect’s 29 contracting agencies got their full allocations was in 2006. 5 years at 2.9% All financing on approved credit. See dealer for list of qualifying units for financing specials. 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