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4 de Octubre, 2007
Armed Squads Shrugging Up Terror
Categorized under Migra , Terrorizing la Gente , Violencia | Tags: ALIENZ, ICE, migra, The Haunted Land
THE AGE OF TERROR unfolds its crooked legs and splays them every which way, deep sheen of justification and bloodlust radiates. Always excused by some greater purpose, the reliance upon violent means and cruelly enforced ideas of division and fear continue to perpetuate themselves...
Armed squads bursting into homes in the dead of night with shotguns and automatic weapons, terrorizing families and taking away anyone who lacks identity papers, even if they have raided the wrong house. It may sound like Baghdad, but it is the suburbs of New York City, the latest among hundreds of communities around the country where federal agents have been invading homes and workplaces in search of immigrants to deport.Federal officials say the raids are a focused campaign to catch gang members and other fugitives. That would be good if Immigration and Customs Enforcement were carefully extracting the dangerous criminal sliver from a population of 12 million illegal immigrants. But as immigration raids have vastly increased, they have become something murky and ugly. [...]
Nassau says they caught only 6 of 96 fugitives. ICE, using a looser definition of “gang member,” said it got 13 in Nassau and 15 in neighboring Suffolk. There, Peggy De La Rosa-Delgado, an American citizen, said her Huntington Station home was raided by mistake last Thursday at 5:30 a.m. It was the second predawn raid looking for the same man at the same wrong address. Her husband and three teenage sons, legal residents, were terrified, she said.
ICE officials callously shrug off such mistakes as collateral damage, but advocates for immigrants have filed a class-action lawsuit asserting that recent raids in the New York City area were unreasonable searches conducted by agents who did not show warrants and misidentified themselves as police officers. Mr. Suozzi has written to the Homeland Security secretary, Michael Chertoff, asking him to investigate the Nassau debacle.
—Stop the Raids, nytimes.com
Shotguns? Automatic weapons? Shrugs? "Collateral damage"?
Have you ever been yanked out of sleep by a violent stranger? This is no small thing. This can mark you for life. It might even banish your ideas of safety forever. Regardless of how long it holds on to you, this is nothing you can shrug off.
This is not something we should shrug off as acceptable, or as "collateral damage." Not even in the holy name of Kicking All The ALIENZ out before they get to yank one more leaf of spinach.
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Comentarios (4)
EYES OF TEXAS dijo:
Sounds like an increasing number of cities have decided it's time to listen to the citizens who are demanding all existing immigration laws be enforced. All I can say is it's about time since the federal goverment is ignoring the issue. Those that need to be caught with these night time raids are the criminals that have broken the law. Oh wait, that includes all ILLEGAL ALIENS, since they have broken the law by just being here without papers. And this outdated number of 12 million illegals was first used about 10 years ago, with the more current estimate putting the number of illegals closer to 30 million. Of coarse, some of the raids will be in error, but the majority will be successful catch and deport operations. With an increase of such actions, a lot of illegals will self-deport and not wait to be caught and put through the very slow system of deportation. If only the federal goverment were as efficient as city goverments to take action, a lot of illegals would already be heading home.
ps God Bless America and all patriots fighting to save her.
Palabras por EYES OF TEXAS spat forth on el 8 de Octubre, 2007 at 02:31 PM
nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez
dijo:
you are done here.
be decent enough to self-censor yourself from now on—that means no more ugly energy like this from you, no more hostility, I'm not interested in engaging it for any reason—or i will ban you from even accessing my site. this is a safe pro-migrant space, it is not your lawn.
one warning.
Palabras por nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez
spat forth on el 8 de Octubre, 2007 at 02:35 PM
Sandra Young dijo:
I live outside of Tucson,Arizona,and have seen how the militarization of our border with Mexico has destroyed peoples lives,caused rampant racism against Hispanics and Anglos alike,and reinforced my own belief that the only way to stop the brutality and carnage is to get out and vote, demand that the goverment takes down this Wall of Hatred,and allow the people to be truly free.The time is upon us to stand up and fight this neofacism before its to late.Stay strong in the stuggle.Lucha y Esperanza
Palabras por Sandra Young spat forth on el 24 de Octubre, 2007 at 07:03 AM
Sandra Young dijo:
I live outside of Tucson,Arizona,and have seen how the militarization of our border with Mexico has destroyed peoples lives,caused rampant racism against Hispanics and Anglos alike,and reinforced my own belief that the only way to stop the brutality and carnage is to get out and vote, demand that the goverment takes down this Wall of Hatred,and allow the people to be truly free.The time is upon us to stand up and fight this neofacism before its too late .Lucha y Esperanza!
Palabras por Sandra Young spat forth on el 24 de Octubre, 2007 at 07:09 AM