Thread: Oklahoma City: Neighbors React To Weekend Immigration Raid

Neighbors React To Weekend Immigration Raid
Mon Aug 27, 7:07 PM ET



A woman who lives in a neighborhood raided on Sunday by immigration officials talked with Eyewitness News 5 on Monday.

An ongoing investigation between Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and local law enforcement netted several arrests on Sunday, officials said.

There is no word as to the nature of the investigation; however, officers were spotted taking people from homes near Northwest 10th Street and Portland Avenue on Sunday.

The woman said she does not know why ICE agents raided her home, but she acknowledged that they were looking for somebody specific. She told Eyewitness News 5's Mark Opgrande that agents wouldn't tell her much.

She said they asked her questions about who lives there. The woman said she has a son in Chicago but said that he told her he hadn't broken the law.

Immigration agents detained one man from her house.

Some neighbors said the raids make them concerned for their safety. Loraine Edwards said she usually knows just about everything that happens in her part of northwest Oklahoma City.

"I would like to know at all times what is going on in my neighborhood," she said.

Selena Eubanks said she is not used to seeing so many police cars in her neighborhood during the day.

"We left the house to go out for breakfast, and the police were everywhere this morning. We were afraid there had been an accident or even a fire or something, but it seemed almost for no reason," she said.

A spokesman with ICE said the arrests started on Saturday and that there would be more to come. However, neighbors said they deserve to know what's going on.

"I think they should tell neighbors what's going on," Edwards said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/koco/20070827/lo_koco/13979291

Loraine Edwards sounds like a nosy neighbor. The police don't need to tell you what's going on, unless you are in danger. If you haven't done anything wrong, then there's no need to worry. The raids should make you concerned...only if you are ILLEGAL!!

Good job, ICE!!

This is an example of a news reporter desperately trying to find a voice opposed to the raids. It is likely that those quoted were taken heavily out of context. They probably said something like: "...Sure, I would like to know whats going on in my neighborhood..." To which the reporter decided to be their angle: "The folk here are in a state of desperation" This way the reporter could paint the ice raids as disruptive.

Sounds like they were hunting MS-13 or a terrorist and not day labors. We know they don't go after them.

Shut up and be glad they are cleaning up your neighborhood.

Next week, the complainers will be in the paper saying, "he was such a nice boy..." and "I never knew..." How many times have you heard that said about a psychopath serial killer? More than I can count.

Dixie

Originally Posted by Chosen

This is an example of a news reporter desperately trying to find a voice opposed to the raids. It is likely that those quoted were taken heavily out of context. They probably said something like: "...Sure, I would like to know whats going on in my neighborhood..." To which the reporter decided to be their angle: "The folk here are in a state of desperation" This way the reporter could paint the ice raids as disruptive.

And that's exactly what ICE raids should be.....disruptive to the illegal population.

WAY TO GO ICE AND OKLAHOMA!!!!