Immigration arrests in California under review (Dpt of Homeland Security)

[Kadie]

Immigration arrests in California under review

By BEN FOX, Associated Press
Last Updated: June 25, 2004, 06:40:00 PM PDT


ONTARIO, Calif. (AP) - The Department of Homeland Security will review a series of arrests of illegal immigrants more than 50 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border, officials said Friday. Federal lawmakers say the sweeps have sparked widespread fear and charges of racial profiling.

Undersecretary of Homeland Security Asa Hutchinson told members of Congress from Southern California that the more than 400 arrests were legal but violated policy because they were done without authorization from headquarters. A report is expected next week.

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Rep. Lois Capps, D-Calif., said she's received scores of calls from constituents worried about the sweeps. She said Hutchinson told lawmakers he wasn't aware of their extent.

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Illegal immigrants have been picked up on the street, pulled over while driving, or caught coming out of stores in communities 100 miles or more from the Mexican border. The raids have spread such fear that some people without papers have stopped going shopping, attending church or going to work, immigrant advocates say.


more... http://www.modbee.com/24hour/nation/story/1458503p-8851144c.html

[Kadie]

1. Protesters demonstrate against SoCal immigration arrests

Protesters demonstrate against SoCal immigration arrests

By TIM MOLLOY, Associated Press Writer


Last Updated: June 26, 2004, 02:55:15 PM PDT


LOS ANGELES (AP) - Chanting pro-immigrant slogans and carrying handwritten signs with messages such as "We Do The Hard Work," hundreds of people marched through a mostly Hispanic section of downtown Saturday to protest a series of recent Border Patrol arrests of illegal immigrants.

More than 420 arrests this month by a Border Patrol unit based in Temecula have produced fear among immigrants and allegations of racial profiling.

The Border Patrol said the unit has not arrested anyone in Los Angeles County and does not have the resources to do so, but many of the protesters Saturday were not convinced.

"There's more important things the government should take care of, like terrorism," said Tomas Nava, who came to Los Angeles from Mexico 10 years ago and hopes to become a U.S. citizen. "I have some sisters that are afraid to go to work."

more... http://www.modbee.com/state_wire/story/8765867p-9645687c.html

[struggle4progress]

2. kick

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[Jack_DeLeon]

3. Good...

hopefully the DHLS will end this, its a waste of resources. Mexicans arent terrorists.