Mexico-linked ACLU: immigration raids are "terrorizing communities" (Joanne Lin)

Posted Thu, May 22, 2008 at 11:18 am
Joanne Lin, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union - an organization collaborating with the Mexican government to possibly sue the U.S. government - on Monday appeared at a meeting of the Appleseed Foundation and said, in reference to local police playing a role in immigration enforcement under the 287g program:
"Local law enforcement has been given the green light to engage in racial profiling... Massive immigration sweeps are terrorizing communities across the country, including those who are U.S. citizens, permanent residents and other lawful workers... It's always been the ACLU's position that immigration is exclusively a federal law... Our view is that it's not the appropriate constitutional use of state and local power."
Ilya Shapiro of the Cato Institute is quoted as disagreeing with the latter claim. And, while it's not the best question I'd ask the ACLU, at least CNS asked something:
At Monday's briefing, Lin spoke about the federal lawsuit filed against the Department of Homeland Security and the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department by the ACLU and the family on behalf of Pedro Guzman, the Associated Press reported. Guzman is a mentally disabled man who was arrested for trespassing, had no identification and was deported to Mexico.

Guzman, who is a U.S. citizen, was found by relatives near a border crossing almost three months later. When asked by Cybercast News Service if Guzman was an isolated case or if the ACLU had statistics showing how many U.S. citizens are mistakenly deported, Lin said she did not have any numbers but suspected there were other such cases.
Discrediting the ACLU would go a long way towards doing something about this issue, and since they frequently make public appearances with Q&A sessions it's not that difficult. See the last link for some questions you can ask them on videotape.

Related:
Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-CA) tries tying ICE's hands on immigration raids; Mexico-linked ACLU cheers
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Comments

Fred Dawes (not verified)

Thu, 05/22/2008 - 19:40

This is madness what about the rights of the people here, it appears we as a people have no rights only the right to be murdered beaten raped and shot by the people of the third world who will never build a nation of Laws, just look at Mexico, just look at the third world and its evil little leaders who hate any people who live under laws of right and wrong, the system is about to be handed over to our enemies Obama who is not any kind of American but who is without a Racists and his race murder ideals will make any of you reading this little post understand what real race hate is soon. ACLU Was once great on real Issues of law but is now owned by the enemy of freedom and duty and the ideals of American laws, sad fact is we will be forced to fight a hopeless war for Lives real soon. P.S The hate never stops I am being Outsourced today isn't that fun, thank god i have some money put away for that day, the system needs us under its total control by using jobs as weapons against us all, political liers will do great evil to many people, buy guns, make friends and build a new country out of the dead one.

Horace (not verified)

Thu, 05/22/2008 - 23:24

The ACLU isn't exactly batting a thousand these days, so one has to question the validity of their asserted "position" that immigration is solely the perview of federal authorities. This is especially true since the fat lady has yet to sing in the opera known as the Supreme Court. State and local authorities have cooperated with the FBI and other federal law enforcement agencies on many violations of federal law, but we don't see the ACLU asserting that counterfeiting should be ignored by state police agencies. This little pony is just trotted out when it works to their advantange of their clients.

eh (not verified)

Sat, 05/24/2008 - 11:18

Maybe if we 'terrorize' a few of them the rest will go home.

Ron Sanders (not verified)

Sat, 05/24/2008 - 15:05

All signs are now written in both Spanish and English. Spanish is everywhere! The store, the gas station, the DMV, the post office. Here a sign there a sign everywhere a sign sign....all written in Spanish! If Mexicans, Central Americans, and South Americans were so terrified, then they wouldn't be out in public, would they. And then all these Spanish language signs wouldn't be necessary, would they? All these signs make me think that nobody is terrified about anything.