War on terror fosters US anti-immigrant hysteria

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http://www.eurekastreet.com.au/article.aspx?aeid=3604

A recent series of raids by the US Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) service signals a new era of anti-immigrant hysteria in America.

In September in the New York City suburb of Nassau County, ICE undertook a massive raid to capture gang members. It declared the raids a success, claiming that of the 186 arrested, 157 were gang members or associates.

However, county executive Thomas Suozzi denounced the raid, insisting that only 'eight were active gang members and one is a gang associate'. He added, 'The result was that many wrong residential addresses were raided, and in one instance, ICE sought a 28-year-old defendant using a photograph taken when he was seven-year-old boy.'

Not only were American citizens and legal residents picked up, but in one case, a house was searched for a man who had moved out in 2003. The family living there were US citizens, except for a child who was a legal resident awaiting naturalisation. Suozzi, joined by county police commissioner Lawrence Mulvey, is calling for a federal investigation of the raid.

[countryjake]

1. Somehow, this brings to mind this...one of your other topics...

Italy politician urges Nazi policies for immigrants
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=2408055&mesg_id=2408055


Sounds to me like racial profiling is now fully accepted procedure in our country. A Black or Latino can't walk the roads around here without getting the evil eye and heaven help them if ICE is in the neighborhood. A family from NOLA, refugees of Katrina, but originally from Haiti, tried to relocate in our county but they were practically run out of town on a rail, due to discrimination and numerous unwarranted harassments by "law & order" types...both parents and their children were proud citizens of this nation.


A guy was busted out here who was standing at a bus stop, waiting for his six-yr old son to come home from kindergarten. Two plain-clothes Border Patrol Agents drove past, then circled back, got out and approached him. When they asked for documentation, he ran and they beat the crap out of him when they got hold of him.

http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_061906WABimmigrantKC.a1f07c00.html

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2. Well, duh.

This whole immigration "debate" is just a xenophobic extension of 9-11 panic and stupidity.

[uppityperson]

3. "immigrant" meaning non-white, non-european.

I would like to ask all who espouse "deport immigrants" what their family heritage is.

[EFerrari]

5. That's why I think the "War on Terror" should be renamed

the "War on Brown People".

In a couple of years at this rate, they'll do that.

We could have never invaded Iraq without the color factor. We could never scapegoat undocumented workers without it. It's sort of like political Fabuloso for the nutwing -- you can use it on anything.

[EFerrari]

4. Did you catch Amy Goodman's creaming of Lou Dobbs yesterday?

It was a thing of beauty.