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Hurricane Dolly, earlier this year, raised fears of just how far the Department of Homeland Security would go in terms of it’s mistreatment of immigrants.

Hurricane Gustav is raising those same fears as it heads into the Gulf Region and a mandatory evacuation order is in place.

According to the New Orleans Worker Center for Racial Justice:

We have won an important assurance from DHS. Immigrants evacuating the path of Gustav will not be targeted by immigration checkpoints.

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