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Local ICE Raids: Five detained in Watsonville, Two in Capitola

by danielsan
Migrawatch heard about it first, sending an message Tuesday night to be on alert. Turns out five people were disappeared by the Feds in Watsonville, plus two in Capitola, fifteen in Seaside, two in Salinas, and another in San Jose. As always, they claim they are selectively targeting dangerous criminals and those who have defied orders to be deported, yet the Santa Cruz Sentinel quotes Lori Haley of ICE, saying "Six of the people arrested had criminal convictions." What about the other nineteen people?
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That proportion isn't the exception, either. In fact it's the rule: so far in 2008, only 300 out of 1,620 human beings arrested are called "criminal aliens" by the Senile. So for every "criminal" that ICE picks up, four more people are the acceptable colateral damage.

WHENEVER ICE OPERATES IN OUR COMMUNITY, POST TO INDYBAY with numbers and location, as many details as possible and as fast as possible! We have to document these raids, so we have video when they hang out at schoolyards waiting for parents to pick up their kids, so we are there to document illegal home invasion-style raids, so everyone sees the truth--that ICE takes mothers away from breastfeeding babies, that ICE makes kids come home from school to find their parents gone, that ICE knocks on the door lying about who they are, that ICE disappears community leaders and breadwinners and big brothers, that ICE detention centers are the new Indian schools, the local Guantanamos, the latest Halliburton money makers; and that ICE only gets someone with a criminal record one out of five times.

Stop the raids! Stop the deportations!

Before they tear apart our communities and our families!
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