March 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.
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