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Thursday, June 26, 2008 --- 64 days ago http://www.pslweb.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=9475
 As the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency continues its coordinated, racist crackdown on undocumented workers across the country, a report in the June 23 issue of The Nation magazine investigates the plight of some unlikely targets of detentions and deportations: U.S. citizens and documented residents. ICE's terror tactics are being applied to undocumented and documented immigrants alike. According to the report, titled "Thin ICE," ICE has held between 3,500 and 10,000 U.S. citizens in detention facilities and deported about half of them since 2004. If you do not speak English, if you are not white and if you appear to be from a Central American country, you are more likely to be arrested for minor civil infractions and be sent to one of the many ICE detention centers. Mario Quiroz, media specialist for Casa de Maryland, tells The Nation, "People who have Spanish names, are five-four, have black hair, get profiled." Casa de Maryland offers assistance to low-income Latinos. ICE has no jurisdiction over U.S. citizens or documented residents, yet they place the burden of proof on detainees to prove their legal status. For some detainees, proving citizenship can be difficult—especially their friends and family cannot locate them. The Nation’s report documents example after example of U.S. citizens and legal residents being illegally arrested and imprisoned by ICE, their whereabouts unknown to loved ones or legal counsels. The ... |
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