Guatemalan diplomat, lawyers, activists decry arrest of illegal alien
Wednesday, January 9, 2008

By Karen Lee Ziner

Journal Staff Writer

Carmen Marrero’s three-year-old son, Brian, holds his baby sister at yesterday’s news conference.


The Providence Journal Andrew Dickerman
PROVIDENCE — Days after the arrest of an illegal Guatemalan immigrant and subsequent apparent suicide of a housemate at the same address, a Guatemalan diplomat, the head of the Rhode Island Affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union and community activists yesterday blamed “the harsh policies of immigrationâ€