Posted on 09/21/2007 1:07:10 AM PDT by neverdem
A federal lawsuit filed yesterday charges that agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement unlawfully force their way into the homes of Hispanic families in the New York area without court warrants or other legal justification, sometimes pushing down doors in the middle of the night, in search of people who do not live there.
The lawsuit, filed in the United States District Court in Manhattan as a class action, accuses the immigration agency of conducting the raids in violation of the Fourth Amendments protection from unreasonable searches, harming citizens and legal residents of the United States as well as foreigners here illegally.
The 15 plaintiffs all but one are residents of Suffolk County and seven of them are United States citizens describe abusive predawn raids on their homes this year by armed immigration agents. They seek an order prohibiting I.C.E. from conducting home raids until the agency develops clear guidelines to end unlawful entries, and unspecified damages.
According to the complaint, the raids are part of a program called Operation Return to Sender that was started in 2006 to arrest and deport fugitive aliens or immigrants previously ordered to leave the country. But, the lawsuit contends, the agents regularly raid homes where the fugitive is not present and could not reasonably have been believed to be present.
The complaint contends that the unstated goal of these raids is to gain access to constitutionally protected areas in hope of seizing as many undocumented persons as possible to meet annual arrest quotas...
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In the case of Ms. Aguilars family, immigration agents burst into their home in East Hampton to hunt for an illegal immigrant without a criminal record Ms. Aguilars ex-husband, who had not lived in the house since 2003, when they divorced and he was ordered deported.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
ICE= In-Competant-Eunuchs.
How cruel! We should at least wait until the illegal alien finishes his cancer treatment paid for by the American taxpayer.
Similar events used to happen with me only with phone calls at 2 in the morning. Last time it happened I told the caller that "Yolanda" was in bed with "Curtis" and didn't want to be disturbed........
As we all know, most illegals are white protestants :-)
NYT
” ICE raid....Illegal Immigrants Hardest Hit”
>> How cruel! We should at least wait until the illegal alien finishes his cancer treatment paid for by the American taxpayer. <<
Who said it was paid for by the American taxpayer? He was quite well-to-do. He had paid into the American insurance program, and was receiving the benefits. Being deported meant interrupting those treatments, and quite possibly a death sentence (at least the way Newsday told it, whichm mind you, is highly questionnable). Besides, the point was not the ICE SHOULDN’T deport him, but that the ICE had chosen to deport HIM why IGNORING tens of thousands of other illegals. He was singled out, apparently for the primary purpose of making the law seem draconian.
>> As we all know, most illegals are white protestants :-)
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Well, most Hispanics are at least partly white, and only 35% of Hispanic illegal aliens are Catholic, so there may be some truth to what you say.
“Immigration Raids Single Out Hispanics, Lawsuit Says”
Why, ya just can’t sneak ANYTHING past those smart lawyerly types now can ya?
LMAO!!
>> ...now... what are we forgetting? <<
Sorry, but i honestly don’t think this thread has yet justified racy pictures of Selma Hayek.
We need justification for that sort of thing? Since when?
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He had hospitalization insurance without a SS#?
>> He had hospitalization insurance without a SS#? <<
I’m not sure. Keep in mind, his wife and kids were American citizens.
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