Thread: Immigrant raid fallout continues

Dubya's alma-mater and liberal bastion in NEW HAVEN, the Yale Daily News:
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Immigrant raid fallout continues

Lea Yu
http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/21110
Staff Reporter


Over 1,000 supporters and residents congregated in the St. Rose of Lima Church for a mass conducted two days after the June raids.

Less than 36 hours after the New Haven passed the nation’s first-ever municipal ID program, giving all city residents identification regardless of citizenship status, federal agents entered New Haven with 16 deportation orders for undocumented immigrants.

By the end of the day, the Department of Homeland Security agents had driven off from New Haven’s predominantly Latino Fair Haven neighborhood with five of the 16 they wanted, in addition to 27 “fugitive aliensâ€

September 4, 2007
Sanctuary city
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2 ... 018367.php

There is a lot to chew on in the Yale Daily News story recounting the "fallout" from last June's efforts by federal officials to execute 16 deportation orders on illegal aliens in New Haven. New Haven had just passed the nation’s first-ever municipal ID program, giving all city residents identification regardless of citizenship status. The YDN helpfully explains that the rationale for the ID program was crime prevention:

The card has been especially championed by communities concerned about the increase in theft and assault affecting undocumented immigrants, many of whom are forced to carry large amounts of cash because they cannot open bank accounts without some form of government ID.

In New Haven, it became apparent that both documented and undocumented immigrants would be targets for such crimes, DeStefano spokeswoman Jessica Mayorga said. From a glance, she said, thieves can never be sure whether a victim is documented, so anyone who looked like they were carrying money was vulnerable.

“We do know that a lot of people who looked like they had just maybe gotten a paycheck had been targeted, and I’m sure racial profiling was a part of it too,â€

even our own governments are perpetuating the problem of illegal alien and immigration. We are witnessing the death of America if we do nothing.