Thread: MI:'No Human Is Illegal' Forms in Response to ICE Raid

Group forms in response to Lansing-area ICE raids

Members hope to raise awareness, funds for families

Kevin Grasha • kgrasha@lsj.com • November 21, 2008 • From Lansing State Journal

EAST LANSING - During four days last month, federal officers conducted raids in the Lansing area, arresting 64 people suspected of being in the U.S. illegally.

A group calling itself the No Human Is Illegal Network formed after the raids in part to help the families affected.

That group wants more people to know what's happening, and that families of undocumented workers are being torn apart.

"They come here because they just want to work," said Maximo Anguiano, a retired Lansing firefighter and member of the No Human Is Illegal Network. "And most of them pay taxes."

Anguiano was one of about 25 people who gathered Thursday at the East Lansing Public Library night for an event partly intended to raise money for the families.

"A lot of times, the main breadwinner of the family is arrested," said Nikhil Sonnad, who heads Amplifx, a social change advocacy organization that helped put together Thursday night's event. "The rest of the family, even if they are legal, they rely on that money."

Organizers showed "Crossing Arizona," which depicts how people risk their lives to find work in this country.

During last month's raids, authorities said 40 of the total arrested were fugitives, meaning a judge had ordered that they be returned to their home country, but they fled. They now are being detained and awaiting deportation, said Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Mike Gilhooly.

The other 24 are believed to be in the U.S. illegally, Gilhooly said.

Anguiano described how one of the 64 people arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers last month was taken as he played with his 12-year-old son. Anguiano said the man, who was reportedly working, was arrested on suspicion of being an undocumented immigrant.

He is still being held in a detention facility in Detroit, Anguiano said.

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A group calling itself the No Human Is Illegal Network formed after the raids in part to help the families affected.

"No Human is Illegal". BARF BARF BARF! I am so sick of hearing that over and over again. IF A HUMAN BEING IS IN AMERICA ILLEGALLY, THAT HUMAN BEING IS AN ILLEGAL ALIEN. What else would they be called?

"They come here because they just want to work," said Maximo Anguiano, a retired Lansing firefighter and member of the No Human Is Illegal Network. "And most of them pay taxes."

Well guess what buster. All those American workers losing their jobs JUST WANT TO WORK too. What stupid people. Egads you want these type of people in our country? I bet they don't even watch the news and have any idea how many people are on the unemployment roles now. If they think the raids are bad, wait till they meet up with some irate American's out of work.

They will bless the raids at the time, and be glad for the free ticket home.

Some of the ILLEGALS are really ILLEGAL

I.C.E. News Release

August 06, 2008

ICE TAKES 10,000th VIOLENT ILLEGAL ALIEN GANG MEMBER OFF U.S. STREETS

Effort shows ICE's commitment to target transnational illegal alien gang violence . . .

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Tell me these people aren't ILLEGAL.

Same sob story over and over again. My eyes just roll into the back of my head every time I here one of those tired and ignorant talking points.

So, how many of them were using stolen Social Security numbers?

Dixie

Same talk about how families are affected.

How are families affected when their relatives cross into our country and leave them behind?

Oh yeah, it's ok if families are separated in that case because they count on money sent home.

Yeah, and where does the once great state of Michigan stand now because of those idioyic bleeding heart attitudes? The once leader of America's industrial might is an empty shell of it's former greatness.

So no bank robber is a thief?
No Pepping Tom is a Pervert?
If you are iun a nation illegally, without permission, then you are an illegal alien?

Ignorance reigns supreme in some areas..

The Florida unemployment rate is 9.5% so my blood pressure goes sky high when I read about these theives stealing American jobs using stolen American SS#s !

Americans worked hard,sacrificed and suffered much to make a great country and that is why it is a PRIVILEGE not a RIGHT to become part of it.

I forwarded this to all my Michigan contacts. It was my home state, this makes me sick.