Racist police state raids in America
Freedom's Phoenix
by Stephen Lendman
09/26/09
A recent New York City Cardozo School of Law Immigration Justice Clinic (IJC) study titled ‘Constitution on Ice: A Report on Immigration Home Raid Operations’ examined the problem in New York, New Jersey, and Long Island from 2006-2008 and included other examples in California, Texas, Massachusetts, Georgia and elsewhere. Researchers documented a nationwide assault on poor immigrant workers, the great majority being Latinos. Many times ICE broke into homes, seizing all occupants ‘without legal basis.’ IJC discovered a systematic pattern of misconduct ’suggest(ing it) may be a widespread national phenomenon reaching beyond’ the areas studied. It involves: — illegal ICE agent entries with no legal authority; — illegally arresting people randomly, including innocent ones in their bedrooms; — conducting lawless searches and seizures in violation of the Fourth Amendment; and — making arrests based on ethnicity, race, appearance, and English proficiency. These police state tactics have no place in a democracy, yet ICE (on its web site) lists dozens of monthly swat-type raids, often against innocent people and their families in their homes...
http://tinyurl.com/yaf7m9w
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Constitution
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=racist
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=police+state
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=raids
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Stephen+Lendman
by Stephen Lendman
09/26/09
A recent New York City Cardozo School of Law Immigration Justice Clinic (IJC) study titled ‘Constitution on Ice: A Report on Immigration Home Raid Operations’ examined the problem in New York, New Jersey, and Long Island from 2006-2008 and included other examples in California, Texas, Massachusetts, Georgia and elsewhere. Researchers documented a nationwide assault on poor immigrant workers, the great majority being Latinos. Many times ICE broke into homes, seizing all occupants ‘without legal basis.’ IJC discovered a systematic pattern of misconduct ’suggest(ing it) may be a widespread national phenomenon reaching beyond’ the areas studied. It involves: — illegal ICE agent entries with no legal authority; — illegally arresting people randomly, including innocent ones in their bedrooms; — conducting lawless searches and seizures in violation of the Fourth Amendment; and — making arrests based on ethnicity, race, appearance, and English proficiency. These police state tactics have no place in a democracy, yet ICE (on its web site) lists dozens of monthly swat-type raids, often against innocent people and their families in their homes...
http://tinyurl.com/yaf7m9w
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Constitution
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=racist
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=police+state
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=raids
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Stephen+Lendman
rudkla - 29. Sep, 10:57
