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Wednesday
March 18,2009


Group Says Immigration Agents Pressured to Make Arrests


WASHINGTON – An immigrants rights group complained Wednesday that U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents in 2007 arrested a group of 24 Hispanics in the parking lot of a 7-Eleven in Baltimore because they had to meet arrest quotas.

CASA de Maryland presented an internal Department of Homeland Security report written after the raids that shows that there were contradictions among the sworn statements given by the agents.

“First they said that they went to buy something because they were hungry and the immigrants came up to them and said they were looking for work,â€