Immigration Raid on Broadway (in Baltimore)
They reported that "24 people were confirmed arrested." A press conference was organized in the early afternoon at that corner by the UWA, Casa de Maryland and other organizations announcing the arrests and condemning them as attacks on people just trying to make a living.
At least 3 television news outlets were reporting from the corner, including CBS and Channel 2. Witnesses said the raid was carried out by "Immigration" or ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement, part of the Department of Homeland Security). There is no word yet if this was an isolated raid or part of a coordinated, multi-city effort that purposefully coincided with the raids in Southern California.
The United Workers Association is a human rights organization that organizes low wage workers and builds leadership from their ranks with the goal of ending poverty. The mission of the organization takes inspiration from the Poor Peoples' Campaign of 1968. Martin Luther King was killed on a stop of this campaign as he fought side-by-side with striking sanitation workers.
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More Evidence of Waste, Fraud and Abuse by ICE
Submitted on January 25th, 2007 by Miguel ContrerasIn the 1990's Congress mandated that the Border Patrol shift agents away from the interior and focus them on the borders. Currently, the U.S. Border Patrol employs over 11,000 agents, and is responsible for patrolling 19,000 miles of land and sea borders. The Border Patrol personnel are deployed primarily at the U.S.-Mexico border, where they are assigned to control drug trafficking and illegal immigration.
However, the Border Patrol has offices and agents stationed geographically nation-wide. Seems logical that the ICE employment raids operations can be delegated to the U.S. Border Patrol, or may be they are but only to provide "prisoner transporatation services" for ICE. For Border Patrol office locations click on:
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US Immigration
Submitted on August 5th, 2009 by Green Card (not verified)From a humanitarian perspective, our fellow human beings, who migrate to support their families, continue to suffer at the hands of immigration policies that separate them from family members and drive them into remote parts of the American desert, sometimes to their deaths. This suffering should not continue.
Now is the time to address this pressing humanitarian issue which affects so many lives and undermines basic human dignity. Our society should no longer tolerate a status quo that perpetuates a permanent underclass of persons and benefits from their labor without offering them legal protections.