Protesters oppose deportation program

Fontana Herald News
By ALEJANDRO CANO
September 3, 2009

Protesters gathered in San Bernardino to express their opposition to the alleged abuses of he 287 (g) program.

When Rocio Martinez, 45, and her husband were stopped by a police officer while they traveled through Montclair streets on a Friday evening in mid-July, she never imagined that by the end of the weekend her family would be torn apart.

That is because Arturo Hernandez, 38, was driving without a valid driver’s license, and under the 287(g) program, he was a candidate for deportation for not having legal documents to reside in the United States.

“I need my husband back, he was the only provider and now we are suffering the consequences of an unfair law,â€