[[February 20, 2007]]/Dave Carpenter/Associated Press/ link

Reports that Jesus Palafox, a seventeen-year-old, has started the El Zocalo Urbano "youth group" to fight deportations of illegal aliens. The Centro Sin Fronteras "immigration rights group" is "helping them organize". Zocalo is located in Pilsen, and we're informed that the Palafox family "'moved to Chicago six years ago".

The article uses imagery that might suggest that those being arrested are political dissidents in the Soviet Union, rather than foreign citizens who are here illegally and who the government has a right and a duty to deport:

The 'dreaded knock on the door comes more frequently these days, usually early in the morning or late at night, as federal agents arrive without warning at the homes of undocumented immigrants.

For Martin Barrios, it happened just before Christmas when the Berwyn factory worker was arrested in his pajamas in front of his family and deported to Mexico after 18 years in this country.

Now children who fear their mothers, fathers or neighbors could be next are 'fighting back, determined to help stop the stepped-up raids on illegal immigrants while Congress debates the issue.

A group of Hispanic teenagers from the Chicago area has formed to lobby against the deportations, and at least 50 of them plan to head to Washington on March 15 to demand a moratorium on such raids.

...the Barrios deportation was a 'chilling call to action...