"In 2007, federal immigration agents raided a location in New Haven, Connecticut and arrested eleven men on the charges of being in the United States illegally. The men filed suit against the federal government and claimed that their rights were violated.
Nearly five years later, the federal government has announced that they have reached a settlement with the eleven illegals. In the announcement, the feds have agreed to pay the men $350,000 and to stop all deportation proceedings against them."
1.Why weren't they deported in 2007?
2. Were they here illegally or not? Story says they were just charged.
The raids on the predominantly Latino neighborhood of Fair Haven came a day after the city became the first to offer identification cards to illegal immigrants, and critics including the mayor have contended the federal sweep was retaliation for the ID program — a charge denied by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. rofllol
Ross Feinstein, an ICE spokesman, said the settlement is not intended as an admission of liability on the part of the U.S. government.
"The government is settling in order to avoid the additional time and expense of further litigation," Feinstein said.
In June 2009, a federal judge ruled that agents violated the constitutional rights of four immigrants in the raids. Immigration Judge Michael Straus said the ICE agents went into the immigrants' homes without warrants, probable cause or their consent, and he put a stop to deportation proceedings against the four defendants, whose names were not released.
Look, you either support the Constitution or you don't. It doesn't do anyone any good if it only applies to some people some of the time. How about if you were vacationing in Mexico and the police there roughed you up and arrested you for being White even though their Constitution said that was illegal, would you be okay with that as long as they had good intentions?
Regardless of if they were legal or not, if the police have no probable cause, i.e. proof they were illegal, they cannot just kick down doors and ask for papers from Hispanics.
Thanks CG for the new (for now) avatar. :thumbsup:
photo-fish wrote: 1How about if you were vacationing in Mexico and the police there roughed you up and arrested you for being White even though their Constitution said that was illegal, would you be okay with that as long as they had good intentions?
If it were illegal to be white in Mexico, I would not me in Mexico.
