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    San Antonio to help families of illegals nabbed in raids

    City May Help Families Of Illegal Immigrants Arrested In Raids
    Hardberger Meets With Relatives Of Undocumented Workers Arrested

    SAN ANTONIO -- San Antonio may offer assistance to the families of undocumented workers arrested in immigration raids in the city, Mayor Phil Hardberger said.

    Hardberger met Tuesday with family members of workers who were arrested and deported in the April 19 raid, workers who escaped the raid and activist groups. He said the raid left families behind, including women and children who may be here legally or are U.S. citizens.

    "Right now, some of them are very torn up and have very bad circumstances," he said.

    The federal raid on IFCO Systems resulted in the arrests of 1,187 workers who were in the United States illegally, including 27 in San Antonio. The raid was part of a national crackdown on the company, which makes crates and pallets.

    Hardberger said he is not taking a position on the national immigration debate.

    "We showed with the evacuees of the hurricane that we are a humanitarian city and that we believe that everyone is worthy of respect and dignity," Hardberger said.

    The mayor said he would meet with City Manager Sheryl Sculley "to see if our existing institutions to help the needy are enough to take care of the needs of these people or whether we should have some sort of special effort in the same sort of sense that we helped the evacuees."

    Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington, said offering aide to the families of the deported workers would be subverting federal immigration enforcement.

    Hardberger "clearly is getting involved in immigration policies," Krikorian said. "To say that a city can be neutral on immigration matters is false because anything that a state or local government does is its immigration policy."

    Krikorian, whose group supports tighter immigration controls, criticized the mayor for comparing lawbreakers to U.S. citizens fleeing a natural disaster. He said the city likely wouldn't do the same for families of U.S. citizens who have been sent to prison for committing state crimes.

    Immigrants who participated in the Tuesday meeting said they were not seeking handouts from the city but were left in desperate situations because of the raids. They said the meeting gave them hope for assistance.
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    Gee too bad they didn't run to the rescue and help all those poor victims of Hurricane Katrina

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