butterbean
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 Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 8:32 am Post subject: Immigration raids have `people in a panic' |
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Staged under the code name ''Return to Sender,'' federal agents have been rousing some wanted undocumented immigrants from their beds, sparking renewed fears of random raids against those living in South Florida without the proper papers.
''People are in a panic,'' said José Lagos, president of Miami-based Honduran Unity, an immigrant rights group that represents Hondurans and other Central Americans in South Florida. ``People are fearful of sending their kids to school, of going shopping, of going to work, of going to a bus stop -- because they worry that immigration agents are going to pick them up anywhere.''
Barbara Gonzalez, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman in Miami, said Wednesday that the 178 people picked up last week were detained during a weeklong series of targeted operations that ended Friday in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties. She stressed that the actions were not the result of random raids on streets, shops or work sites.
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http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/16646760.htm
Illegal immigrants should be in a panic, cause they are going to get caught, one way or the other. |
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