Widespread claims of beefed-up Border Patrol presence stokes fear among Valley's undocumented immigrants
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August 07, 2010 9:48 PM
Jared Taylor
The Monitor

SAN JUAN — The video showed actors portraying federal agents raiding a factory, looking for illegal immigrants.

The woman who told an agent she came to the U.S. illegally was arrested. The man who remained silent was not.

More than 100 people, many of them undocumented immigrants, gathered Friday night at the headquarters of La Union del Pueblo Entero — a San Juan-based immigrant advocacy group — to learn how to exercise their rights with authorities.

Immigrant advocates say the greatest threat to foreign nationals living in the region without proper documentation is federal authorities’ heightened patrols of colonias in the Mid-Valley.

“We are talking about these families that are so afraid,â€