FAIR HAVEN RAIDS | PART 1 OF 2
Part 1 of 2: A safe haven, raided 9.28.09
Staff reporter Isaac Arnsdorf reconstructs the Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids in New Haven's Fair Haven neighborhood in June 2007. This is the first in a two-part series.
The federal agents came at dawn on June 6, 2007, pounding on doors, yelling in an unfamiliar tongue, storming bedrooms, lining up the men on one side of the room and the women on the other. In three hours, they raided eight apartments and homes in New Haven’s predominantly Latino neighborhood of Fair Haven, making 29 arrests. Five of them were the intended targets; the rest were detained along the way.
