Thread: Child's civil rights were violated during immigration raid,

So is the ACLU filing a suit against the federal government?
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Child's civil rights were violated during immigration raid, lawsuit says
Tyche Hendricks, Chronicle Staff Writer

Thursday, April 26, 2007

(04-26) 12:39 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- The American Civil Liberties Union and the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights filed suit in San Francisco today on behalf of Kebin Reyes, a 6-year-old U.S. citizen, saying U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents violated the child's civil rights when they took him into custody on March 6.

Kebin was detained along with his Guatemalan-born father, Noe Reyes, 37, during immigration raids in San Rafael that were part of the national campaign "Operation Return to Sender," which has picked up more than 18,000 people nationwide on immigration violations.

Their attorneys charge the federal government violated Kebin's rights under the 4th and 5th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution -- his rights to be secure in his house against unreasonable searches and seizures and his right to liberty.

Noe Reyes was among 65 people arrested in Marin County that week, just five of whom were detained on outstanding immigration warrants. He and his lawyers say agents would not allow him to call relatives and ask them to look after Kebin or take him to school when the father was arrested and instead took the boy into custody for 10 hours.

Kebin was released when an alarmed uncle heard about the arrest and came to find the boy.

Noe Reyes, the boy's sole parent in the U.S., spent the next six weeks in jail. Kebin has become fearful and withdrawn since his father's arrest and suffers recurrent nightmares, his father said.

Immigration officials emphasized that Kebin was allowed to stay in a room with his father the whole day, separate from other detainees.

"The father was arrested and there was no one to take care of the boy at home, so they had the boy come with his father," said ICE spokeswoman Lori Haley. "He went with his dad so he wouldn't be left home alone. We work with the families to find someone to take care of the child."

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Please.....he's a minor child, not an adult. They gonna give them the right to vote next? Civil right to vote as a citizen. I honestly pace at the insanity of all this. Where have peoples minds gone?

I suppose they would have preferred that ICE leave a 6 year old alone? This is another ploy. As far as I'm concerned unless that child's mother is a citizen of this country the child isn't either.

Last time I checked minors don't fall under all parts of the constitution. Local police make sure legal adults have someone that can take the child(ren) and look after them when taken into custody and if not they get someone from family and child to pick them up from the police station. In many cases involving illegals they have no relatives here and if they do they don't want to rat them out to ICE. Let the child see what happens when mom and dad break the law.

This child was lucky he got to stay with his father until his uncle picked him up, if this child had been the child of a U.S. citizen who was under arrest and there was not a relative around to take the child they would have called social services and the child would have been with strangers. So whats the big complaint, if you ask me they were very accomidating, more so than with one of us.

Why do illegals have more rights then naturalized citizens

You have got be KIDDING!!!

ProudAmericanFamily said it best in another thread...

"Wow, just WOW!"

Do the Globalists even realize just how angry they're making us?

Pine said:

Do the Globalists even realize just how angry they're making us?

It's almost like they want to make us angry.