Thread: CORRECTED: Hispanic groups call for moratorium on work raids

CORRECTED: Hispanic groups call for moratorium on work raids
By Jim Forsyth
Mon Dec 25, 12:30 AM ET



SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) - U.S. Hispanic groups and activists on Thursday called for a moratorium on workplace raids to round up illegal immigrants, with some saying they were reminiscent of Nazi crackdowns on Jews in the 1930s.

They accused the Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement of "racial profiling," or selective enforcement against Hispanics, for arresting 1,300 workers on immigration violations in December 12 raids at meatpacking plants in six states.

"We are demanding an end to these immigration raids, where they are targeting brown faces. That is major, major racial profiling, and that cannot be tolerated," said Rosa Rosales, president of the League of United Latin American Citizens, at a news conference.

"This unfortunately reminds me of when Hitler began rounding up the Jews for no reason and locking them up," Democratic Party activist Carla Vela said. "Now they're coming for the Latinos, who will they come for next?"

The groups, which included LULAC, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, the Hispanic National Bar Association, and the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials, sent letters to U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, urging a halt to the raids.

They also called on Congress to quickly to approve immigration legislation that would allow for "guest workers" to remain in the United States.

The government crackdown follows months of political debate about illegal immigrants that culminated in a new law authorizing, among other things, construction of a 700-mile wall along several stretches of the U.S.-Mexican border.

Many of those arrested in the December 12 raids, all at Swift & Co. plants, were from Latin American countries.

Chertoff said the raids showed that illegal immigrants, estimated to number 12 million in the United States, contributed to the problem of identity theft because they worked under false or stolen identities.

Anger at anti-immigrant rhetoric and measures is said to have hurt Republican candidates with Hispanic voters in November elections that saw the Democrats win a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate.

LULAC, the oldest and largest Hispanic group in the country with 115,000 members, said workplace raids would cause families to be separated if the arrested immigrants were deported and also would hurt the U.S. economy.

"Every labor-intensive industry including the hospitality, construction, agriculture and restaurant industries will be adversely impacted if these raids continue," Rosales said.

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There's just not a coat-tail these ya-hoos won't try to ride on. Deporting them for being illegal is a far cry from being sent to the sent to the gas chambers. Breaking up families, the American economy........I mean please......spare me the family values deal and the American economy? How did we manage all this time without them?

The illegal invasion is more like the storm trooper of the Nazis crossing our borders in hoards without sanction or permission, killing Americans and taking jobs.

U.S. Hispanic groups and activists on Thursday called for a moratorium on workplace raids to round up illegal immigrants, with some saying they were reminiscent of Nazi crackdowns on Jews in the 1930s.

You have got to be kidding is there nothing that Illegals and their supporters will not stoop to.........I wonder if they have any idea how outrageously stupid that comparsion is and how unfair it is to the jews who truly went through horrendous ordeals, while Illegals are getting busted for choosing to breaking the law . They should be ashamed!!!!

Hundreds of thousands of us went without Grandparents that died to end the terror of Hitler. And in return:

"This unfortunately reminds me of when Hitler began rounding up the Jews for no reason and locking them up," Democratic Party activist Carla Vela said. "Now they're coming for the Latinos, who will they come for next?"

Our country is being invaded by persons with warped mentality. There are lots of illegals and lots reasons to rid the land of illegal alien invaders.

Democratic party leader Vela is from san antonio, of course shes going to say something since that town is only 155 miles from the border. and the population is mostly hispanic. so you can see why she said something.

The Bexar County Democratic Office is closed till after the new year but if you google her name you can get her information and phone number to call the office after the first of the year. I already plan on it

Doesn't even a cursory reading of modern history motivate someone
to point out the Nazis were very good at enacting 'laws' which were
very friendly to business & reducing freedoms, i.e. free slave labor?
The Nazi economy did very well. Why do we let these slime bags
control the high ground in the war of words? I made this simple
poing when this topic came up at a couple of holiday parties & a
lot of people went 'hmmmm, you have a point there, Mssr Dupree'.

How about a moratorium on arresting car thieves or burglars as well?