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As usual, Reuters gets it wrong. These weren't "immigration raids". They were "illegal-immigration raids". Big difference - except to Reuters reporters.
In a related note, California bank robbers are also fearful after police arrested a large number of them in Los Angeles, too. The only difference is, the bank robbers aren't pretending the police are the ones doing something wrong.
BTW, are ALL Calif. latinos worried by these raids that arrested illegal aliens? If a latino guy didn't enter the country illegally, why exactly is he worrying? The cops' job IS to arrest people who broke the law, is it not?
When the cops arrest lots of bank robbers, do the people who DIDN'T rob banks, get worried too? I didn't rob a bank, and the cops don't worry me.
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http://today.reuters.com/news/artic...ION-RAIDS.xml&WTmodLoc=USNewsHome_C1_[Feed]-5
California Latinos fearful after immigration raids
Thu Jan 25, 2007 3:13pm ET
by Tim Gaynor
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Cook Rosa Maria Salazar's eyes dart anxiously to the door as customers file into the Salvadoran cafe in a heavily Hispanic neighborhood near downtown Los Angeles.
"We're terrified. The police could come for us at any time and deport us," she said in Spanish earlier this week as diners fingered maize tortillas stuffed with beans and pork scratchings and chatted softly.
The 55-year-old undocumented worker from Guatemala is among many Hispanics deeply shaken by recent immigration raids at the heart of Latino communities in southern California.
The-seven day Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sweep, dubbed "Operation Return to Sender," targeted jails across five counties in the Los Angeles area, where police took 423 of what they called "criminal aliens" into federal custody for deportation, after being held on charges unrelated to their immigration status.
Federal agents from seven teams also fanned out in local communities, where they nabbed 338 undocumented immigrants, more than 150 of whom were classed as "immigration fugitives" -- foreign nationals who ignored final deportation orders.
The raid was the latest in a series of get-tough enforcement measures by ICE in the United States, but the largest action of its kind in California, where more than a third of the population is Hispanic.
"We hadn't seen anything like this here before, and it came as a shock," said Antonio Bernabe, a community worker who runs a day labor program at the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles. "The police didn't just take people with deportation orders, they took anybody ... guys who were just hanging out in the street and even from a Jack in the Box restaurant ... and now people are afraid to go out," he added.
(Editor's note: The police didn't take "anybody". They arrested people who had violated the law by entering the country illegally. Funny how the illegals keep forgetting to mention that part. -LA)
In a related note, California bank robbers are also fearful after police arrested a large number of them in Los Angeles, too. The only difference is, the bank robbers aren't pretending the police are the ones doing something wrong.
BTW, are ALL Calif. latinos worried by these raids that arrested illegal aliens? If a latino guy didn't enter the country illegally, why exactly is he worrying? The cops' job IS to arrest people who broke the law, is it not?
When the cops arrest lots of bank robbers, do the people who DIDN'T rob banks, get worried too? I didn't rob a bank, and the cops don't worry me.
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http://today.reuters.com/news/artic...ION-RAIDS.xml&WTmodLoc=USNewsHome_C1_[Feed]-5
California Latinos fearful after immigration raids
Thu Jan 25, 2007 3:13pm ET
by Tim Gaynor
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Cook Rosa Maria Salazar's eyes dart anxiously to the door as customers file into the Salvadoran cafe in a heavily Hispanic neighborhood near downtown Los Angeles.
"We're terrified. The police could come for us at any time and deport us," she said in Spanish earlier this week as diners fingered maize tortillas stuffed with beans and pork scratchings and chatted softly.
The 55-year-old undocumented worker from Guatemala is among many Hispanics deeply shaken by recent immigration raids at the heart of Latino communities in southern California.
The-seven day Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sweep, dubbed "Operation Return to Sender," targeted jails across five counties in the Los Angeles area, where police took 423 of what they called "criminal aliens" into federal custody for deportation, after being held on charges unrelated to their immigration status.
Federal agents from seven teams also fanned out in local communities, where they nabbed 338 undocumented immigrants, more than 150 of whom were classed as "immigration fugitives" -- foreign nationals who ignored final deportation orders.
The raid was the latest in a series of get-tough enforcement measures by ICE in the United States, but the largest action of its kind in California, where more than a third of the population is Hispanic.
"We hadn't seen anything like this here before, and it came as a shock," said Antonio Bernabe, a community worker who runs a day labor program at the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles. "The police didn't just take people with deportation orders, they took anybody ... guys who were just hanging out in the street and even from a Jack in the Box restaurant ... and now people are afraid to go out," he added.
(Editor's note: The police didn't take "anybody". They arrested people who had violated the law by entering the country illegally. Funny how the illegals keep forgetting to mention that part. -LA)