Another U.S. Citizen Treated Like an ‘Illegal Immigrant’
October 18, 2008 in ICE, News Article, Videos by Administrator
How many is too many?
Parrish discovered he had an outstanding arrest warrant for a bad check and came to the jail to pay a small “no arrest” bond. But the 50-year-old father of five from Brooklyn said he was finger printed, strip searched, and sent to the inmate intake area because a deputy thought he was an illegal immigrant.
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This is by no means and isolated incident.
An unpublished study by the Vera Institute of Justice, a New York nonprofit organization, in 2006 identified 125 people in immigration detention centers across the nation who immigration lawyers believed had valid U.S. citizenship claims.
February 2008: 114 workers, U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents, are temporarily detained during a raid at Micro Solutions Enterprises in Van Nuys, Calif
Five citizens in Texas joined a lawsuit against the department, asserting that they were subjected to unreasonable search and seizure when agents raided a meatpacking plant where they worked last year.
An African American worker said in a hearing that he was handcuffed and detained for hours without food and water during a raid on an Iowa meatpacking plant in 2006.
DreamActivist.org has researched and indexed the following stories.
The overwhelming majority of the wrongfully detained U.S. citizens are racial and ethnic minorities. And here we thought that racial profiling was against the ‘law of the land?’
Kebin Reyes – 6 year Old
Pedro Guzman – Deported!
Jose Cesar Guzman
Marie Justeen Mancha – Teenager
Mike Graves
Sonia Mendoza
Pasqual Talamentes
Loida Cruz
Darryl Harrington – Korean War Vet
Olga Savage – 68 year old
Gladis – 6 months pregnant
Lenin Freud Perez-Torres
Alicia Rodriguez
From the Seton Hall School of Law suit
Maria Argueta, Arturo Flores, Bybyana Arias, Juan Ontaneda, Veronica Covias and five others wishing to remain anonymous
‘Anna’ – not her real name
Walter Chavez, Anna Galindo and their son
Thomas Warziniack
Nitin Dhopade
Jesus Garcia
Denise Shippy
Dana Ayala
Juan Manuel Carrillo
Xochitl Delgado
Rennison Castillo – Jailed for 7 months
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