Posted on 09/24/2011 11:10:52 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
Edited on 09/24/2011 7:53:11 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Federal agents are under fire again for the way they conducted an apparent raid in Detroit.
The July 25 raid reportedly involved several U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents on the grounds of Ste. Anne Catholic Church, 1000 Ste. Anne.
Sept. 22, the Detroit Free Press: [snip]
According to the newspaper, border spokesman Heath Stephens said the agency is working on a response, but could not comment Wednesday.
Bates, along with other immigrant rights officials, previously condemned U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials in Detroit for other raids, including one at a local school.
The accusations were brought to the department’s attention in April, following ICE agents being accused of following parents to Hope of Detroit Academy, a public charter school in Detroit, to carry out an operation in March.
“This is a pattern of abuse,” said Bates, during a media teleconference in April. “It’s systematic and we need action that changes what leadership is doing in the Detroit ICE office.”
While the agents in Detroit were cleared of any wrongdoings in the school case, along with a dozen of others, the department did draft a new policy “that more clearly defines enforcement activities at or near sensitive locations."
According to a recent report released by No More Deaths, an immigrant rights group in Arizona, there have been thousands of accusations against federal authorities in recent years.
The report – “A Culture of Cruelty" – reportedly documents more than 30,000 incidents over the past three years that it said involved abuse and mistreatment of people in the custody of U.S. immigration authorities.
“No More Deaths has released a major new report, A Culture of Cruelty, which details rampant U.S. Border Patrol abuse of immigration detainees, deportees and migrants apprehended on the U.S.-Mexico Border,” reads the group’s website.
....“This is a pattern of abuse,” said [Ryan Bates, director of the Michigan office of the Alliance for Immigrants Rights and Reform], during a media teleconference in April. “It’s systematic and we need action that changes what leadership is doing in the Detroit ICE office”....
....While the agents in Detroit were cleared of any wrongdoings in the school case, along with a dozen of others, the department did draft a new policy “that more clearly defines enforcement activities at or near sensitive locations."
The Justice for Immigrants campaign of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops is urging priests across the nation to “incorporate petitions, prayers and homilies” into Sunday Masses on September 25 in support of passage of the DREAM Act.Other related threads:
-- from the thread USCCB campaign urges parishes to pray, preach on behalf of DREAM Act
If your looking for illegals, there are much better places than churches...Home Depot and Lowes parking lots, any street corner where they congregate looking for work, hundreds of places, Taco Bell after church.
What was the motive behind, behind raiding outside of Church? Probably to cause controversy.
Whatever happened to the separation of church and state?
That amendment is to protect the church FROM the state. Am I correct there?
Doesn't that trouble you, Alex or did you miss it blindly?
Oh, I get it, Alex, you posted this to demonstrate the utter incompetence of the Federal government on those seemingly almost nonexistent occasions when they bother to enforce Federal immigration law. Right?
Gotcha.
Doesn't it trouble you that the Catholic Church openly supports illegal immigration?
St. Augustine speaking some 1600 years ago:
“You say the times are troublesome, the times are burdensome, the times are miserable. Live rightly and you will change the times. The times have never hurt anyone. Those who are hurt are human beings; those by whom they are hurt are also human beings. So change human beings and the times will be changed” because as the Church goes, so goes the world.
Prezactly.
“You say the times are troublesome, the times are burdensome, the times are miserable. Live rightly and you will change the times. The times have never hurt anyone. Those who are hurt are human beings; those by whom they are hurt are also human beings. So change human beings and the times will be changed” because as the Church goes, so goes the world.
That's an awesome quote. Thanks for posting it!
Central Alabama Presbyterians add voice opposing immigration law
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