Fema Employment

Can i Quit federal air marshal job? If i started working as a federal air marshal and I hate it, is it possible to quit before the first year of working there?

What would be the best and quickest steps to take towards being a Federal Air Marshal? I got medically discharged from the Air Force in march for having asthma that doesnt even affect me. So ive been skippin around different jobs and decided i still want to do something like that and started looking into the FAMS (Federal Air Marshal Service). Any suggestions?

What drug test is used for a federal job such as federal air marshals? hair test, urine test, blood test? Which ones do they use?

What is the best way to apply for the federal air marshals.And is it even worth applying or are they backed up Just got out of the Marine Corps after 8 years of honorable service and had my eye out for different federal jobs , but havent found much on this.

Whats the diffrence between a Federal Air Marshal and a regular Air Marshal? Whats the diffrence between a Federal Air Marshal and a regular Air Marshal? Also, After my 3 years in the United States Army (infantrymen) I think this would be a good career, would my military expernice be helpful in me getting a job with this organization? http://www.ehow.com/how_2090572_become-air-marshal.html

How do I become a Federal Air Marshal? It seems like a very interesting job, but what are the working conditions, pay, and just general information about it.

How does one become a Federal Air Marshal in the United States. Please read.? What would the process be for straight out of school. Do they hire US Citizens that were not born in the US Are they highly regarded to do a good job. Thank You

Can someone have a federal agent job and be in the national guard? I want to contract with the national guard as an officer since I am about to graduate college. However I would like to work a federal job at the same time . Like border patrol or us marshals. How does this work with drill? Is it even possible?

Does your major matter when applying for a job as a US Marshal, NCIS or any other federal agent?

im in the usmc and higher wants to send me to soi, im currently in college and will lose all financial aid? I dont want go and I am wondering what kind of discharge i will get if i opt out and refuse to go. I am a reservist and was labeled excess and need to retrain. Also how will the discharge affect my ability to get a federal job (ie us marshal, customs, etc), will i be able to explain my situation to employers the higher would be the CO of the unit and what kind of discharges would i be looking at?

Federal Air Marshal Service? What ***college courses should I study in, what type of job,easily accessible to undergrads, would best lead up to getting this position, **salary, general info, **hours of work, etc. Please be as detailed as possible.

Whats a good federal job? Im 17, and a junior in high school. Ive job shadowed a US Marshal, and i have all the plans to get a federal job, such as hand to hand combat training, fluent Spanish, offensive and defensive shooting skills, and the plans to get my a BA degree in criminal justice and 3 years of Police experience. What i want, is a government car, authority with out jurisdiction, the ability to openly carry a Glock 17, 21, or 22 (just a good side arm really) like a full size in a shoulder/side holster or a compact with casual clothes, the choice to wear civilians clothes (i like 2 or 3 piece suits, or khakis and a polo or what ever) and i want to get into shoot outs with criminals and all that. I dread going my career and not firing on an armed murderer, more than i do giving my life for my country. The reason i want federal job over anything else is cuz i want to serve my country, but i want to be able to raise a family, and not be stuck overseas. mind you, where the real heros are. So can u give some good options please? like USMS, FBI, CIA, DEA, ATF? btw i dont want DSS. But over seas service for a year or two in the beginning, when i dont have a family would be cool, like USMS SOG or something. thanks a lot!

Federal law enforcement jobs.? If I had a BA in criminal justice, served 4 years as an officer in the Marine Corps, and was mildly proficient in Spanish would I be a worthy candidate for a job with the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, etc?

What if we do nothing about amnesty?

Is there any truth in this article about illegal workers here in the USA? The long road home Deported illegal workers face the long arm of the law http://www.magicvalley.com/articles/2008/03/30/news/top_story/133809.txt Most of the 28 shackled, brown-skinned men deported March 13 by federal agents from the Twin Falls airport still saw giving up as out of the question. They teased fellow travelers with unusual last names: Salado - risqué - and Lechuga - lettuce. They stayed jovial at the end of a video informing them of their rights. On the grimmest of days, they tried to raise each other's spirits. There were other reasons to eagerly board the flight. Some wanted to escape the blustery chill. For others, the unmarked MD-83 jet, with U.S. Marshals and government contractors for flight attendants, offered a first-ever flight. In this crowd of strangers, a sense of comradery took hold, making the trip more endurable. Crossing a legal border Antonio Carrillo could see only two options: give up and go home or fight deportation. The majority of the deportees - 15 in all - took seats toward the back of of the 172-seat jet. They remained apart from those who were not fighting deportation. At the plane's final stop, in Phoenix, the 15 involuntary deportees would go before a judge to make one last plea to stay in the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials say all will certainly lose. "Most of them, they don't have a case," said Steven Branch, ICE's Salt Lake City-based director of detention and removal. His office has handles an average of 3,750 removals per year from Utah, Nevada, Idaho and Montana. Those who fight deportation and lose are sent home under a removal order. They face a felony charge if they return to the U.S. Those who chose not to fight are simply returned to Mexico. It they sneak back across the border, they face no criminal charge. Some make the round-trip more than once. "I'd rather obtain a removal order to stop the revolving door," Branch said. "Sometimes a felony return sinks in and it scares the heck out of them." The deportees' hopeful pursuit for appeals may also describe their obedient - almost passive - behavior as they are processed. Since the summer of 1998, authorities have corralled Montana and Idaho deportees in Twin Falls for shipment to their native country without ever having a serious incident. Not once have the armed ICE officers and Marshals needed to pull a trigger. The closest thing anyone recalls to an escape is a man who once tried to run, only to bounce off a locked detention cell door in Salt Lake City. International stockade Montana and Idaho mainly by local law enforcement from crimes ranging from a speeding ticket to murder. A smaller group are arrested by immigration agents. Arrests made directly by ICE or U.S. Border Patrol agents can often start with an operation targeting criminal aliens but lead to arrests of non-criminal immigrants caught in the cross-fire. Since the inception of ICE in March 2003, immigration agents have arrested and detained 3,355 immigrants in six south-central Idaho counties, according to ICE records obtained by a public information request. "It's a tough job," Branch said. "We knock on doors at 6 o'clock in the morning. The whole family is there. 'Come outside so we can arrest you away from your family.' People don't realize we don't make the laws up. We enforce the laws. Congress has passed the laws." In exceptional cases, ICEagents allow families to fly home together voluntarily on commerical flights. When the jails across Idaho and Montana fill up, usually once or twice a week. Vans haul the men to the TwinFalls County jail for the night. The next morning after breakfast at the jail, ICE agents transfer them to a federal processing office on Addison Avenue East, where they are deposited into a cubic, white-walled holding cell with a single toilet that rests an inch out of view of a surveillance camera. The group grows to only 28 today but agents have seen it swell to as many as 75 men. Women are always kept separate. After the deportees watch a 40-minute movie about their rights, they are brought one-by-one out of the room by the much smaller number of agents. Their morning breath festers in the close quarters. They are cuffed and shackled to belly chains, inspected, then returned to the cell until the bus in the back parking lot is ready to go. Once the processing is complete, they load into a white bus parked in a gated area behind the building. With the exception of screens on the windows that prevents the public from looking in, the 47-seat bus looks like a Greyhound bus. But on the inside, the front is split from the main cabin by a metal divider. The bus is wired - with monitors showing officers activity in the back and with a scrambled federal radio channel that connects the officers on board to the several vans caravaning to the airport. The vehicles wait on the tarmac for an unmarked charter jet containing only U.S. Marshals and private contractors, who will fly them to Salt Lake City to pick up a second batch of immigrants. Then to scoop up more at another regional city, and on until El Paso, Texas, and finally Phoenix, Ariz. But these flights won't go to their native countries - whether Mexico or elsewhere. Those flights, which will happen later, entail handing the immigrants off to their respective governments. Preparing a defense During this process, the men, some who cannot read, usually with meager educations, will not be afforded a lawyer. They lack awareness of immigration law, or U.S. laws altogether for that matter, which leaves them to quietly invent the odds of winning their case, and an argument for swaying a judge. What's Antonio Carrillo's case? At the ICE office on Addison Avenue East, his mind is not on the departure two hours away, or even his home in Chihuahua Parral, Mexico. It's on his girlfriend in Bozeman, Mont., who is entering her third trimester of pregnancy, and their impending wedding. He has told her not to worry: he has no legal help, but he'll take care of it. After all, he and eight of the other men today have committed no crime, beyond a traffic ticket. "She knows I'm in jail," Carrillo said, looking prim in a black pinstripe buttoned shirt. "She doesn't know what's going to happen. She doesn't know (if I lose) I can never come back." He threw his hands into the air, "Maybe I'll win." It's worse for Carrillo, 19, if he loses the hearing. It will mean he cannot simply marry his fiancee and move back because that would trigger a felony. If he voluntarily left, it would give him a blank slate to the American government. He seems unclear on this point. Still at the processing office, the bus is ready to take the men to the airport. Carrillo returns to the holding cell, where men are called out by agents wearing blue latex gloves to be searched and cuffed. Carrillo, who was happy being photographed before the cuffs went on, now declines to have his picture taken. ICE gives the men street clothes so they don't have to wear the jail garb of the county where they were arrested. It's important to him that he not be viewed as a criminal. Roots of an arrest It's also important for Luis Delacruz, of central Peru. As a convicted criminal, he has no chance of winning his appeal. But he has a plan:Make a case against racism. After joining his brother and cousins in Hailey five years ago, Delacruz, 32, had a roofing job. He bought a car and hoped to start saving money - money that might justify leaving his wife back home in Peru. But then Delacruz had too much to drink and tried to buy more. He showed his Peruvian ID to a mini-mart clerk, who reported him. Soon afterward, a Blaine County deputy arrested him for driving under the influence. To Delacruz, the cause of his deportation isn't his status as an illegal immigrant or drinking and driving. It's racism. "Why do they imagine these things about us?" he said with a sigh. "I'm leaving with what I came with. I'm not thinking about coming back. You're too far from the people you love." That's the sentiment of the case he'll make, which carries no legal weight, at the civil proceeding. He recalls leaving his wife at the airport in Peru five years ago, promising her he'd return with more money than he left with. She bawled, and even reconsidered letting him go. He's protesting his deportation, he said, because he still has debts here and feels ashamed that he won't be able to pay it back. If he wins his appeal, he says, he'll be back to pay up. Chances of that happening are slim. It's unclear what happens to the immigrants once they reach their seats inside the airplane. The charter plane, unlike the bus, looks on the inside like a typical airliner. As the Marshals finish packing plastic garbage bags containing their livelihoods - a book, an extra pair of clothes, a cowboy hat, court papers - into the undercarriage, something shuts off. The men lose their smiles. The laughter, both contrived for each other and authentic, halts. The men, all with closely cropped black hair, stare forward at the seat ahead. As Marshals retract the stairwell, the cabin permeates with only the calm hum of the engines.

Are you safer now? I.C.E. is doing its job? May 3, 2007 Suspected double murderer, rapist arrested in Idaho Falls IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - A suspected double murderer from Mexico was arrested here yesterday during a joint operation among U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the U. S. Marshals Service, Idaho State Police and the FBI. Joel Randu Escalante-Orosco, 32, has an outstanding warrant for his arrest in Mexico for raping and murdering his sister-in-law in Chihuahua, Mexico. He's also the prime suspect in a similar rape and murder of a single mother that occurred earlier in Phoenix, Ariz., in March 2001. Escalante-Orosco and the Phoenix murder were highlighted on the "America's Most Wanted" television show. Escalante-Orosco was arrested at 7:30 a.m. at his apartment in the 1800 block of 16th St. in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Federal agents had received a tip that Escalante-Orosco was in the area, and that there was a warrant for his arrest on murder charges in Mexico. "This significant arrest further demonstrates to criminal aliens that they cannot use the United States as a haven from justice," said Jeffrey Copp, special agent in charge of the ICE Office of Investigations in Denver. "The various law enforcement agencies that teamed up to investigate and execute this arrest represent law enforcement cooperation at its best." Copp heads a four-state area that includes: Idaho, Colorado, Montana and Wyoming. Escalante-Orosco is currently in ICE custody on immigration violations. ICE is processing him for deportation back to Mexico. However, ICE is also working with Phoenix law enforcement to first determine the status of murder and rape charges there. The U.S. Attorney, District of Idaho, has accepted the case to criminally prosecute Escalante-Orosco for illegally entering the United States. This arrest is part of the Secure Border Initiative (SBI), a comprehensive multi-year plan by the Department of Homeland Security to secure America's borders and reduce illegal migration. Under SBI, Homeland Security seeks to gain operational control of both the northern and southern borders, while re-engineering the detention and removal system to ensure that illegal aliens are removed from the country quickly and efficiently. SBI also involves strong interior enforcement efforts, including enhanced worksite enforcement investigations and intensified efforts to track down and remove illegal aliens inside this country. -- ICE --

Are right-wing domestic terrorists doing the job, in America, that Al Qaeda would like to be doing? "A month before a suspected white supremacist walked into the Holocaust Memorial Museum in downtown Washington and opened fire, the Department of Homeland Security warned that domestic right-wing extremism was the most pressing domestic terrorist threat that the country faced." "The man authorities say was the shooter at the Holocaust Museum, James von Brunn, was a well-known white supremacist who had railed against blacks, Jews, and the power of the federal government. In 1981, Brunn walked into the Federal Reserve Board with a shotgun, according to news reports. In another incident in early April, three police officers in Pittsburgh were killed by another reported white supremacist. In another recent high-profile incident, George Tiller, a Kansas doctor who performed legal abortions, was shot and killed last Sunday as he stood in the aisle of his church. Scott Roeder, the man charged in Tiller's murder, echoes the DHS report on right-wing extremism. Believed to have been a member of an antigovernment militia in Montana during the mid-1990s, Roeder had a history of railing against taxes and abortion, according to news reports. "We can see from these incidents that the U.S. is not immune from these types of attacks and that a lone gunman or cell can kill just as effectively," says Bruce Hoffman, a terrorism expert at Georgetown University. "But it also shows that those operating outside an organized terrorist network lack the training and tradecraft to make their attacks either sustained or a systemic threat." After the killing, the U.S. Marshals Service was instructed to increase security at the country's abortion clinics." http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/national/2009/06/10/holocaust-museum-shooting-other-recent-attacks-prove-domestic-extremism-a-threat.html Homeland Security Warns of Rise in Right-Wing Extremism "An intelligence assessment released to law enforcement last week claims news of recession, the election of an African American president, rumors of new gun restrictions and the inability of veterans to reintegrate create fertile ground for radicalizing and recruiting right-wing extremists." Fox News http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/04/14/homeland-security-warns-rise-right-wing-extremism/

Federal security guards? I work next door to a Federal Court House. There are men in dark suits that sit in the foyer area of the court house all the time. I see them everyday because they are housed with the Post Office. Are these guys Federal Marshals? What do they do? I know they carry weapons because I have seen them. Just wondered what their job description would be.

Is there any truth in this article about illegal workers here in the USA? The long road home Deported illegal workers face the long arm of the law http://www.magicvalley.com/articles/2008/03/30/news/top_story/133809.txt Most of the 28 shackled, brown-skinned men deported March 13 by federal agents from the Twin Falls airport still saw giving up as out of the question. They teased fellow travelers with unusual last names: Salado - risqué - and Lechuga - lettuce. They stayed jovial at the end of a video informing them of their rights. On the grimmest of days, they tried to raise each other's spirits. There were other reasons to eagerly board the flight. Some wanted to escape the blustery chill. For others, the unmarked MD-83 jet, with U.S. Marshals and government contractors for flight attendants, offered a first-ever flight. In this crowd of strangers, a sense of comradery took hold, making the trip more endurable. Crossing a legal border Antonio Carrillo could see only two options: give up and go home or fight deportation. The majority of the deportees - 15 in all - took seats toward the back of of the 172-seat jet. They remained apart from those who were not fighting deportation. At the plane's final stop, in Phoenix, the 15 involuntary deportees would go before a judge to make one last plea to stay in the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials say all will certainly lose. "Most of them, they don't have a case," said Steven Branch, ICE's Salt Lake City-based director of detention and removal. His office has handles an average of 3,750 removals per year from Utah, Nevada, Idaho and Montana. Those who fight deportation and lose are sent home under a removal order. They face a felony charge if they return to the U.S. Those who chose not to fight are simply returned to Mexico. It they sneak back across the border, they face no criminal charge. Some make the round-trip more than once. "I'd rather obtain a removal order to stop the revolving door," Branch said. "Sometimes a felony return sinks in and it scares the heck out of them." The deportees' hopeful pursuit for appeals may also describe their obedient - almost passive - behavior as they are processed. Since the summer of 1998, authorities have corralled Montana and Idaho deportees in Twin Falls for shipment to their native country without ever having a serious incident. Not once have the armed ICE officers and Marshals needed to pull a trigger. The closest thing anyone recalls to an escape is a man who once tried to run, only to bounce off a locked detention cell door in Salt Lake City. International stockade Montana and Idaho mainly by local law enforcement from crimes ranging from a speeding ticket to murder. A smaller group are arrested by immigration agents. Arrests made directly by ICE or U.S. Border Patrol agents can often start with an operation targeting criminal aliens but lead to arrests of non-criminal immigrants caught in the cross-fire. Since the inception of ICE in March 2003, immigration agents have arrested and detained 3,355 immigrants in six south-central Idaho counties, according to ICE records obtained by a public information request. "It's a tough job," Branch said. "We knock on doors at 6 o'clock in the morning. The whole family is there. 'Come outside so we can arrest you away from your family.' People don't realize we don't make the laws up. We enforce the laws. Congress has passed the laws." In exceptional cases, ICEagents allow families to fly home together voluntarily on commerical flights. When the jails across Idaho and Montana fill up, usually once or twice a week. Vans haul the men to the TwinFalls County jail for the night. The next morning after breakfast at the jail, ICE agents transfer them to a federal processing office on Addison Avenue East, where they are deposited into a cubic, white-walled holding cell with a single toilet that rests an inch out of view of a surveillance camera. The group grows to only 28 today but agents have seen it swell to as many as 75 men. Women are always kept separate. After the deportees watch a 40-minute movie about their rights, they are brought one-by-one out of the room by the much smaller number of agents. Their morning breath festers in the close quarters. They are cuffed and shackled to belly chains, inspected, then returned to the cell until the bus in the back parking lot is ready to go. Once the processing is complete, they load into a white bus parked in a gated area behind the building. With the exception of screens on the windows that prevents the public from looking in, the 47-seat bus looks like a Greyhound bus. But on the inside, the front is split from the main cabin by a metal divider. The bus is wired - with monitors showing officers activity in the back and with a scrambled federal radio channel that connects the officers on board to the several vans caravaning to the airport. The vehicles wait on the tarmac for an unmarked charter jet containing only U.S. Marshals and private contractors, who will fly them to Salt Lake City to pick up a second batch of immigrants. Then to scoop up more at another regional city, and on until El Paso, Texas, and finally Phoenix, Ariz. But these flights won't go to their native countries - whether Mexico or elsewhere. Those flights, which will happen later, entail handing the immigrants off to their respective governments. Preparing a defense During this process, the men, some who cannot read, usually with meager educations, will not be afforded a lawyer. They lack awareness of immigration law, or U.S. laws altogether for that matter, which leaves them to quietly invent the odds of winning their case, and an argument for swaying a judge. What's Antonio Carrillo's case? At the ICE office on Addison Avenue East, his mind is not on the departure two hours away, or even his home in Chihuahua Parral, Mexico. It's on his girlfriend in Bozeman, Mont., who is entering her third trimester of pregnancy, and their impending wedding. He has told her not to worry: he has no legal help, but he'll take care of it. After all, he and eight of the other men today have committed no crime, beyond a traffic ticket. "She knows I'm in jail," Carrillo said, looking prim in a black pinstripe buttoned shirt. "She doesn't know what's going to happen. She doesn't know (if I lose) I can never come back." He threw his hands into the air, "Maybe I'll win." It's worse for Carrillo, 19, if he loses the hearing. It will mean he cannot simply marry his fiancee and move back because that would trigger a felony. If he voluntarily left, it would give him a blank slate to the American government. He seems unclear on this point. Still at the processing office, the bus is ready to take the men to the airport. Carrillo returns to the holding cell, where men are called out by agents wearing blue latex gloves to be searched and cuffed. Carrillo, who was happy being photographed before the cuffs went on, now declines to have his picture taken. ICE gives the men street clothes so they don't have to wear the jail garb of the county where they were arrested. It's important to him that he not be viewed as a criminal. Roots of an arrest It's also important for Luis Delacruz, of central Peru. As a convicted criminal, he has no chance of winning his appeal. But he has a plan:Make a case against racism. After joining his brother and cousins in Hailey five years ago, Delacruz, 32, had a roofing job. He bought a car and hoped to start saving money - money that might justify leaving his wife back home in Peru. But then Delacruz had too much to drink and tried to buy more. He showed his Peruvian ID to a mini-mart clerk, who reported him. Soon afterward, a Blaine County deputy arrested him for driving under the influence. To Delacruz, the cause of his deportation isn't his status as an illegal immigrant or drinking and driving. It's racism. "Why do they imagine these things about us?" he said with a sigh. "I'm leaving with what I came with. I'm not thinking about coming back. You're too far from the people you love." That's the sentiment of the case he'll make, which carries no legal weight, at the civil proceeding. He recalls leaving his wife at the airport in Peru five years ago, promising her he'd return with more money than he left with. She bawled, and even reconsidered letting him go. He's protesting his deportation, he said, because he still has debts here and feels ashamed that he won't be able to pay it back. If he wins his appeal, he says, he'll be back to pay up. Chances of that happening are slim. It's unclear what happens to the immigrants once they reach their seats inside the airplane. The charter plane, unlike the bus, looks on the inside like a typical airliner. As the Marshals finish packing plastic garbage bags containing their livelihoods - a book, an extra pair of clothes, a cowboy hat, court papers - into the undercarriage, something shuts off. The men lose their smiles. The laughter, both contrived for each other and authentic, halts. The men, all with closely cropped black hair, stare forward at the seat ahead. As Marshals retract the stairwell, the cabin permeates with only the calm hum of the engines.

Is there any truth in this article about illegal workers here in the USA? The long road home Deported illegal workers face the long arm of the law http://www.magicvalley.com/articles/2008/03/30/news/top_story/133809.txt Most of the 28 shackled, brown-skinned men deported March 13 by federal agents from the Twin Falls airport still saw giving up as out of the question. They teased fellow travelers with unusual last names: Salado - risqué - and Lechuga - lettuce. They stayed jovial at the end of a video informing them of their rights. On the grimmest of days, they tried to raise each other's spirits. There were other reasons to eagerly board the flight. Some wanted to escape the blustery chill. For others, the unmarked MD-83 jet, with U.S. Marshals and government contractors for flight attendants, offered a first-ever flight. In this crowd of strangers, a sense of comradery took hold, making the trip more endurable. Crossing a legal border Antonio Carrillo could see only two options: give up and go home or fight deportation. The majority of the deportees - 15 in all - took seats toward the back of of the 172-seat jet. They remained apart from those who were not fighting deportation. At the plane's final stop, in Phoenix, the 15 involuntary deportees would go before a judge to make one last plea to stay in the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials say all will certainly lose. "Most of them, they don't have a case," said Steven Branch, ICE's Salt Lake City-based director of detention and removal. His office has handles an average of 3,750 removals per year from Utah, Nevada, Idaho and Montana. Those who fight deportation and lose are sent home under a removal order. They face a felony charge if they return to the U.S. Those who chose not to fight are simply returned to Mexico. It they sneak back across the border, they face no criminal charge. Some make the round-trip more than once. "I'd rather obtain a removal order to stop the revolving door," Branch said. "Sometimes a felony return sinks in and it scares the heck out of them." The deportees' hopeful pursuit for appeals may also describe their obedient - almost passive - behavior as they are processed. Since the summer of 1998, authorities have corralled Montana and Idaho deportees in Twin Falls for shipment to their native country without ever having a serious incident. Not once have the armed ICE officers and Marshals needed to pull a trigger. The closest thing anyone recalls to an escape is a man who once tried to run, only to bounce off a locked detention cell door in Salt Lake City. International stockade Montana and Idaho mainly by local law enforcement from crimes ranging from a speeding ticket to murder. A smaller group are arrested by immigration agents. Arrests made directly by ICE or U.S. Border Patrol agents can often start with an operation targeting criminal aliens but lead to arrests of non-criminal immigrants caught in the cross-fire. Since the inception of ICE in March 2003, immigration agents have arrested and detained 3,355 immigrants in six south-central Idaho counties, according to ICE records obtained by a public information request. "It's a tough job," Branch said. "We knock on doors at 6 o'clock in the morning. The whole family is there. 'Come outside so we can arrest you away from your family.' People don't realize we don't make the laws up. We enforce the laws. Congress has passed the laws." In exceptional cases, ICEagents allow families to fly home together voluntarily on commerical flights. When the jails across Idaho and Montana fill up, usually once or twice a week. Vans haul the men to the TwinFalls County jail for the night. The next morning after breakfast at the jail, ICE agents transfer them to a federal processing office on Addison Avenue East, where they are deposited into a cubic, white-walled holding cell with a single toilet that rests an inch out of view of a surveillance camera. The group grows to only 28 today but agents have seen it swell to as many as 75 men. Women are always kept separate. After the deportees watch a 40-minute movie about their rights, they are brought one-by-one out of the room by the much smaller number of agents. Their morning breath festers in the close quarters. They are cuffed and shackled to belly chains, inspected, then returned to the cell until the bus in the back parking lot is ready to go. Once the processing is complete, they load into a white bus parked in a gated area behind the building. With the exception of screens on the windows that prevents the public from looking in, the 47-seat bus looks like a Greyhound bus. But on the inside, the front is split from the main cabin by a metal divider. The bus is wired - with monitors showing officers activity in the back and with a scrambled federal radio channel that connects the officers on board to the several vans caravaning to the airport. The vehicles wait on the tarmac for an unmarked charter jet containing only U.S. Marshals and private contractors, who will fly them to Salt Lake City to pick up a second batch of immigrants. Then to scoop up more at another regional city, and on until El Paso, Texas, and finally Phoenix, Ariz. But these flights won't go to their native countries - whether Mexico or elsewhere. Those flights, which will happen later, entail handing the immigrants off to their respective governments. Preparing a defense During this process, the men, some who cannot read, usually with meager educations, will not be afforded a lawyer. They lack awareness of immigration law, or U.S. laws altogether for that matter, which leaves them to quietly invent the odds of winning their case, and an argument for swaying a judge. What's Antonio Carrillo's case? At the ICE office on Addison Avenue East, his mind is not on the departure two hours away, or even his home in Chihuahua Parral, Mexico. It's on his girlfriend in Bozeman, Mont., who is entering her third trimester of pregnancy, and their impending wedding. He has told her not to worry: he has no legal help, but he'll take care of it. After all, he and eight of the other men today have committed no crime, beyond a traffic ticket. "She knows I'm in jail," Carrillo said, looking prim in a black pinstripe buttoned shirt. "She doesn't know what's going to happen. She doesn't know (if I lose) I can never come back." He threw his hands into the air, "Maybe I'll win." It's worse for Carrillo, 19, if he loses the hearing. It will mean he cannot simply marry his fiancee and move back because that would trigger a felony. If he voluntarily left, it would give him a blank slate to the American government. He seems unclear on this point. Still at the processing office, the bus is ready to take the men to the airport. Carrillo returns to the holding cell, where men are called out by agents wearing blue latex gloves to be searched and cuffed. Carrillo, who was happy being photographed before the cuffs went on, now declines to have his picture taken. ICE gives the men street clothes so they don't have to wear the jail garb of the county where they were arrested. It's important to him that he not be viewed as a criminal. Roots of an arrest It's also important for Luis Delacruz, of central Peru. As a convicted criminal, he has no chance of winning his appeal. But he has a plan:Make a case against racism. After joining his brother and cousins in Hailey five years ago, Delacruz, 32, had a roofing job. He bought a car and hoped to start saving money - money that might justify leaving his wife back home in Peru. But then Delacruz had too much to drink and tried to buy more. He showed his Peruvian ID to a mini-mart clerk, who reported him. Soon afterward, a Blaine County deputy arrested him for driving under the influence. To Delacruz, the cause of his deportation isn't his status as an illegal immigrant or drinking and driving. It's racism. "Why do they imagine these things about us?" he said with a sigh. "I'm leaving with what I came with. I'm not thinking about coming back. You're too far from the people you love." That's the sentiment of the case he'll make, which carries no legal weight, at the civil proceeding. He recalls leaving his wife at the airport in Peru five years ago, promising her he'd return with more money than he left with. She bawled, and even reconsidered letting him go. He's protesting his deportation, he said, because he still has debts here and feels ashamed that he won't be able to pay it back. If he wins his appeal, he says, he'll be back to pay up. Chances of that happening are slim. It's unclear what happens to the immigrants once they reach their seats inside the airplane. The charter plane, unlike the bus, looks on the inside like a typical airliner. As the Marshals finish packing plastic garbage bags containing their livelihoods - a book, an extra pair of clothes, a cowboy hat, court papers - into the undercarriage, something shuts off. The men lose their smiles. The laughter, both contrived for each other and authentic, halts. The men, all with closely cropped black hair, stare forward at the seat ahead. As Marshals retract the stairwell, the cabin permeates with only the calm hum of the engines.

Police question? When you guys work with Federal agencies do they under estimated your abilites. I ask this because everytime I see a movie in which the two work together the Federal guys act like the local officers cant do their job. Like in the movie "US Marshals". Yes, I know there movies, but any truth to this?

Can I reach a federal law enforcement job with this path? The ones I'm interested in are FBI, Secret Service, U.S Marshals, DEA, etc... Anyways, I'm 16, a sophomore in high school, and I'm positive with 100% I want to go into Criminal Justice,hopefully at a federal level. I've been reading books in my school's library on almost anything that deals with law enforcement and criminal justice. I want to help people in this field, and I believe I have the skills (and I do not care how much I get paid). I've researched quite a bit on Federal Law Enforcement, and it's pretty obvious that they want a bachelor's degree. Well, I'm trying to figure out what to get a degree in or what path to take specifically, in order to achieve success in this field. Now, this is one path i've gotte, and it's the best I can come up with, but I don't want to go down any path and not reach my goals. >>Get a Bachelor's in Criminal Justice, with a minor (associate's) in Law OR Accounting/Business OR Psychology OR Spanish OR all of them (if possible). >>Work three or four years afterwards in a law enforcement/criminal investigations career (i.e patrol officer a.k.a police officer) simply to get experience and help my country on the homefront, maybe even get far enough to detective, I do not know. >>Then, apply at some or all of federal law enforcement jobs during my patrol officer/detective career. I feel like if I apply at all, and whoever takes me first, I have a good chace, because i'm sure there's a waiting period on hiring at those institutions. Plus, i really can't choose, because I know I would enjoy all of them. So, is this a good path? Or maybe getting a Bachelor's in Law or Accounting and then a minor in Criminal Justice. I would get a double major but I think that would require too much time (and money I do not have). Also, I don't want to pursue a Master's, because well, I really want to get into the field as soon as I can (and by field, I mean Special Agent). I love law enforcement, and I know it's not like they show on TV, and that its not all it's cracked up to be, especially when its a career you have to "want to do" if you do it, and well, I want to. I want to make a difference, which I think this career does a great job doing. If anyone can help, please let me know.

Should I date now, or wait? And what kind of girl should I look for? I am finishing up my sophomore year of college and plan to graduate on time in a couple of years. I plan to start my career in federal law enforcement with the Marshal's Service directly after I graduate. I gave up playing Division 1 baseball for a girl that I was certain I was going to marry (who promptly left me for my best friend's roommate, ouch right?). The thought was I wanted to stay close to her so I settled for a small school close to home after I graduated from high school. I'm worried that if I get involved now with a girl, that I will make the same mistake again. I really want this for my future. It's an outstanding job and something I can be proud of. But I let my heart overrule my head. I don't trust myself. If I meet and fall for another girl, I'm afraid of the direction my future will take. Too many of my friends have had to give up their dreams to get married, or because of kids. So should I chance it? There is no shortage of girls that are interested, but if I do choose one, what kind of girl do you think I should pick? just the cutest one? or the one I can see myself with later? Just someone to have fun with? I'm pretty lost... (that's a very vague question and I apologize lol) I know this may be a lot to ask but... I'd love some input. Thanks =)

If I get a law degree, does that mean I have to become a lawyer to join FBI? I'm 16 years old, sophomore in high school, and before recently, I've wanted to be an actor. I've had acting training, but its not felt right to become an actor. I love my country, U.S.A, and I am interested in criminal justice and law enforcement. I want to do a federal law enforcement job (CIA, DEA, Secret Service, U.S Marshal, etc...) but I mainly want to get into the FBI and do criminal investigative work at a high level, maybe do undercover work, but mainly detective work. I've read several questions on Yahoo Answers and read the website of the FBI, but I'm a little confused. I want to start getting ready for a college I can get a degree in and hopefully join FBI or another law enforcement agency. I'm currently enrolled in JROTC at my school and I am a part of the Mock Trial at my school. My main question is, if I got a law degree (like they FBI says they want) do I need to work as as an attorney or lawyer in that field for 3 years (as the website says you need to have a 3 year work experience) to join the FBI? I know that you can get a criminal justice degree, which I'm willing to do, too, but from what I've read, that's almost cliche and overdone. I really want to do something in law enforcement at a federal level, because I want to help others and keep my country safe. I'm outgoing and trustworthy, with a GPA of 4.0, and no criminal background. And I want to know what I need to do to find the best way to join one of these prestigious agencies. Thank you.

If you get a law degree, do you have to be a lawyer to join the FBI? I'm 16 years old, sophomore in high school, and before recently, I've wanted to be an actor. I've had acting training, but its not felt right to become an actor. I love my country, U.S.A, and I am interested in criminal justice and law enforcement. I want to do a federal law enforcement job (CIA, DEA, Secret Service, U.S Marshal, etc...) but I mainly want to get into the FBI and do criminal investigative work at a high level, maybe do undercover work, but mainly detective work. I've read several questions on Yahoo Answers and read the website of the FBI, but I'm a little confused. I want to start getting ready for a college I can get a degree in and hopefully join FBI or another law enforcement agency. I'm currently enrolled in JROTC at my school and I am a part of the Mock Trial at my school. My main question is, if I got a law degree (like they FBI says they want) do I need to work as as an attorney or lawyer in that field for 3 years (as the website says you need to have a 3 year work experience) to join the FBI? I know that you can get a criminal justice degree, which I'm willing to do, too, but from what I've read, that's almost cliche and overdone. I really want to do something in law enforcement at a federal level, because I want to help others and keep my country safe. I'm outgoing and trustworthy, with a GPA of 4.0, and no criminal background. And I want to know what I need to do to find the best way to join one of these prestigious agencies. Thank you.

Just graduated with my bachelors degree in Criminal Justice, contemplating if i should go to Grad school? My main goal is to go Federal, with an agency like U.S Marshals, ICE, ATF just to name a few but somewhere along those lines. Just with a Bachelors degree it is very difficult to get in a high end agency as such, so that is why I am considering Grad school, the program is Global Security and Intelligence which even opens up more doors to Global, which would allow me to work abroad if I wanted to. BUT, U.S. Border Patrol (Federal Job) is recently hiring now, which should be pretty easy for me to get in with my degree. Once you are in the Federal system, it is pretty easy to transfer from agency to agency within a couple of years, hence allowing me to go to Marshals, ICE or whatever agency I wanted to. Another thing is financial stuff! I have about $20 grand that I have to pay in loans right now! Grad school would be like an additional $10-$15 grand on top of that. Right now im working a full time job earning around $16,000 a year. Should I wait it out and continue my education (year and a half to get graduate degree) considering the opportunities it will offer (Go Global, easy access to high end agency, better pay.. etc) and have to pay around $35,000 in loans??? ORRR should I stick with my Bachelors Degree get into U.S. Border Patrol which starts around $45,000 where I live at, and start to pay my undergraduate loans off and work myself up to get in an agency that I want to?? Consider the negatives and positives.. Thanks a lot for your time and opinions! And I am 21 at the moment if that helps...

which federal law inforcement agency be right for me? getting into federal Law Inforcement is a goal of mine but I'm trying to figure out which branch would be right for me. a few I have considered are the US Marshals, border patrol, and the DEA. I want a job that can physically and mentally challenge me and I'm also an outdoors person so I don't want to spend most my time behind a desk doing paper work so which one would be suitable for me? I really don't need anyones comments about how I spelled law enforcement, I was typing fast and just misspelled something so you either answer the darn question or keep it moving. I'm also looking to get into a tactical unit that specialize in taking down fugitives and preventing terrorist attacks.

Marine Corps Military Police - Enlisted or Officer? I'm a college junior majoring in Criminal Justice. My long-term goal is to get a job with a Federal Law Enforcement Agency like the FBI, NCIS, US Marshal's, etc. I've also always been interested in joining the Marine Corps. I know I would enjoy military police, but what would be better? Enlisted MP or Officer MP? From what I've read, being an officer would mostly just be desk work, whereas enlisted would be in the field. So would enlisted be better for someone looking for a future career with the Feds?

What Federal Agency is for Me? Hello, I am looking into law enforcement as a career, I am interested in the FBI, U.S. Marshals, DEA, and CIA. What I want to know is what is the best job for law enforcement, i want to have a field job, not as much as a desk job. And by field job I mean I want to guard places, guard people, stuff like that. If you know of any job that sounds like that please tell me.

DEA, ATF, or US Marshal? Ok so im currently going to be a senior at University of Missouri and im majoring in criminal justice. I only have one year left obviously but im going to start applying for one of the following jobs listed above because the hiring process is 10-12 months for each. I know a fairly decent amount about each of the agencys above and have done alot of research and they all appeal to me. However im looking for some opinion on which one would be the "better" or more intresting job AND WHY. Any one with experience in the law enforcment community, especially the federal side would be greatly appreciated or if your just somone who knows alot about the subject thats fine to. Thanks

Federal Grand Juries are begining to convict those who aid and harbor illegal aliens. Is this a good thing? According to the article, she was convicted in a jury trial and can get 10 years in federal prison without possibility of parole. Is this a step in the right direction? A federal jury has convicted a Monett woman for harboring and hiring illegal immigrants employed at a Barry County poultry processing plant raided by federal authorities last May. Jurors on Jan. 15 found Dora Ruiz, 33, guilty of harboring an illegal alien and inducing an illegal alien to enter or reside in the United States, according to a U.S. Attorney’s Office news release. Ruiz formerly worked in the human resources department at George’s Processing Inc. plant in Butterfield, north of Cassville. George’s is based in Springdale, Ark. On May 22, about 100 officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Social Security Administration Office of Inspector General, U.S. Marshals Service and the Missouri Highway Patrol served search warrants at the plant in connection with an investigation into alleged identity fraud and employment of illegal immigrants. Officers arrested 136 people believed to be in the country illegally; 28 were later criminally charged with immigration and identity theft offenses. Evidence at the trial indicated that Ruiz assisted George’s employees by completing their Employment Eligibility Verification I-9 forms and translating from English to Spanish. Prosecutors said that Ruiz knew many employees were illegal immigrants who used fraudulently obtained Social Security numbers and identity documents in order to get jobs at the plant. Another former George’s HR employee – 23-year-old Sinthia Valadez-Ramirez – also pleaded guilty Jan. 8 to aiding and abetting others to commit aggravated identity theft, according to the release. “These convictions mark an important development in our continued commitment to pursuing employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens,” John Wood, U.S. attorney for the Western District of Missouri, said in the release. Under federal statutes, Ruiz faces a sentence of up to 10 years in federal prison without parole. http://www.sbj.net/article.asp?aID=11569519.5120355.1041131.4577099.775411.795&aID2=80078 I can already tell I'm going to have a very difficult time picking a best answer. There are just so many good ones here.

should the federal agents at ruby ridge be tried for murder? I don't want a bunch of comments like "you're just some nut job" or " that dhs report is right" crap. I want real answers. Here's the facts: Federal agents tried to turn randy weaver into a mole in ayarn nations. He said no. He also was asked to sell 2 sawed off shotguns to an atf uc. If he did is up for debate. He was charged with violating the nfa and failed to apper in court when given the wrong date. Us marshals then attempted to arrest randy weaver when their recon was compermised and shot the weavers dog. Sam weaver then opened fire killing marshal degan and then broke contact and was shot in the back. After the seige started a fbi hrt sniper shot an unarmed vicki weaver in the head while she was holding her baby. The federal agents were using military rules of engagement against a guy who was special forces but was never saw combat. The use of this roe is a violation of law enforcement sop and resulted in the murder of a 14 year old boy. A sniper shot a unarmed woman from 250 yards away. All over poecession of 2 short barreled shotguns and a no show in court? Should the us marshels special operations team members, fbi sniper, on site commander, atf uc at aryan nations, and janet reno be tried for murder?

What federal law enforcement agency offers the best training? OK I'm a criminal justice major in college. I've been considering for some time about joining the military in special ops (Navy SEALs, Army Special Forces, etc). I've always wanted that elite training, but due to my disatisfaction with some of the realities of the Iraq War, I don't think I'll join. Long term I always wanted to get into federal law enforcement. So my question is: Which agency offers the best training/academy? I would love some type of job like the US Marshals Fugitive Task force, kicking in doors to apprehend fugitives for example. But I want the best training.