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Chicago the Latest Target of Immigration Raids

10:34 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · chicago|Immigration · Comments Off

25 Apr 2007

Yesterday Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) made the Chicago Latino community their latest target. Searching the Latino Little Village and its strip mall on the Southwest Side of the city yielded over a hundred arrests. Officials say they were targeting a ring that counterfeits and sells immigration documents in the area. Community members, many who took to the streets to protest this latest redada felt they were being targeted because of the string pro-immigrant rallies that have been held in the area over the past year.

It’s a show of force. We believe it was done to intimidate this community. We can’t see it any other way,” said Ald. George Cardenas (12th). “The number of people involved in this operation is just overwhelming.”
Ald. Ricardo Munoz (22nd) called the operation overkill.
“It was way overkill. They had machine guns, shotguns, bullet-proof vests. It was a huge, huge endeavor,” Munoz said. “They struck fear into the heart of the Little Village community.

Via / CBS 2 Chicago

Religious leaders call for a stop to immigration raids

1:51 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · California|Controversia|Immigration|Religion|San Francisco · 1 Comment

6 Apr 2007

Leaders of several California religious groups held a press conference earlier this week in San Rafael (near San Francisco) calling for an end of the recent wave of immigration raids, and empathy for the plight of undocumented immigrants:

“I don’t think the way they enforced the law is right, or just, or moral, or tolerable, especially for children,” said San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop Ignatius Wang, who was born in Beijing.

“We all are immigrants some way or another, and why should we treat other immigrants as aliens?” he added. “If the government wants to secure the borders, it is right. But if they treat human beings inhumanly, it’s not right.”

More Immigrant Sweeps Across the Country

10:54 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · chicago|Immigration|New York City · 2 Comments

23 Feb 2007

Late last year there were a series of immigration raids across the country targeting the meat packing industry. And while in downtown NYC yesterday, NYU Republicans played “find the illegal alien” amidst protests, in Midtown Manhattan the government was seeking out undocumented workers, except they weren’t playing.

In a sweep across 17 states and the District of Columbia, immigration officials descended on popular eateries like Hard Rock Cafe and Planet Hollywood, arrested almost 200 illegal immigrants working for a janitorial company and filed criminal charges against its top three officials.

Migra Sweeps Hit New Jersey

3:14 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration|Justice · Comments Off

28 Dec 2006

The pre-Christmas immigration sweeps that ran cross country are continuing.

“Tienen encerradas a unas 70 personas, no dejan entrar ni salir a nadie”, dijo uno de los empleados que trabaja en el turno de la noche en la compañía Dicar, en Pine Brook, Nueva Jersey, pero quien prefirió no ser identificado para proteger su empleo.

Regardless of if you think that the raids are Hitleresque or not.

Immigration Raids Across the Country

9:26 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia|Immigration|Justice|Labor · 2 Comments

13 Dec 2006

When we visit our local supermarkets to pick up some beef, chicken, or pork to cook for dinner, we rarely think about who packs our would be dinners. Although it’s unclear how many workers at Swift & Co. plants in six states across the country were rounded up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents that went down, it’s clear that workers are the target and not the big company owners.

The raids capped a 10-month investigation. Authorities did not say how mnay people were arrested at the plants in Greeley; Grand Island, Neb.; Cactus, Texas; Hyrum, Utah; Marshalltown, Iowa; and Worthington, Minn. No charges had been filed against Swift. In a written statement, President and CEO Sam Rovit said the company has never knowingly hired illegal workers and does not condone the practice.

Via / Newsday y Fox News

Image Via / The Boston Globe

Immigration Raids Stopping la Musica

8:55 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration|Music · Comments Off

3 Oct 2006

Dance clubs and concerts are the last places people think about being impacted by immigration and its so-called “reform”, but a recent article from San Antonio, Texas tells how dance and concert halls are feeling the heat thanks to immigration raids.

Artists and promoters are reporting that recent raids by the U.S. Border Patrol on dancehalls and nightclubs that usually play music or feature artists that cater to Mexican music fans have dramatically cut down attendance in recent months.

Because halls can no longer fill their dance floors anymore, musicians are being forced not play their music south of the border.

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