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In reponse to the recent immigration raids across the country, several Latino groups — among them LULAC, MALDEF and the Hispanic Bar Association — are joining forces to call for a moratorium on what they call racist witch hunts:

U.S. Hispanic groups and activists on Thursday called for a moratorium on workplace raids to round up illegal immigrants, saying they were reminiscent of Nazi crackdowns on Jews in the 1930s.

They accused the Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement of “racial profiling,” or selective enforcement against Hispanics, for arresting 1,300 workers on immigration violations in December 12 raids at meatpacking plants in six states.

“We are demanding an end to these immigration raids, where they are targeting brown faces. That is major, major racial profiling, and that cannot be tolerated,” said Rosa Rosales, president of the League of United Latin American Citizens, at a news conference.

“This unfortunately reminds me of when Hitler began rounding up the Jews for no reason and locking them up,” Democratic Party activist Carla Vela said. “Now they’re coming for the Latinos, who will they come for next?”

While Vela’s “who’s next?” comment is a good way to get other communities of color on board with the cause via empathy/fear, the fact is no one else is next. Latinos are the target of these raids and the migra in general, and no one else has anything to be worried about. Somehow I can’t imagine a raid at one of the Irish pubs here in SF, where countless undocumented Irish immigrants work.

Via / Yahoo! News