Thread: RI: Immigration sweep nets 42, provoking outcry

Immigration sweep nets 42, provoking outcry
06:42 AM EDT on Saturday, June 14, 2008
By Karen Lee Ziner
Journal Staff Writer

NEWPORT, RI — Community advocates yesterday denounced a two-day immigration sweep on Aquidneck Island as an inhumane and deliberate effort to spread fear, and they said the raids on Wednesday and Thursday had already pushed people into hiding.

At a news conference in Washington Square, half a dozen speakers said agents for Immigration and Customs Enforcement had gone into restaurants, stores and apartments during the sweep, but in some cases appeared to be targeting people because they appeared foreign and were driving landscaping trucks.

“This is nothing less than Gestapo tactics, and it has to stop,â€

These idiots think the answer to everything is amnesty.......its about time we see some law enforcement even though it is not enough to make a dent.....we need the employers to spend some time in jail to make a difference.

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