Immigrant raid fallout continues
Less than 36 hours after the New Haven passed the nation’s first-ever municipal ID program, giving all city residents identification regardless of citizenship status, federal agents entered New Haven with 16 deportation orders for undocumented immigrants.
By the end of the day, the Department of Homeland Security agents had driven off from New Haven’s predominantly Latino Fair Haven neighborhood with five of the 16 they wanted, in addition to 27 “fugitive aliens” who had never faced a deportation order.
The hubbub surrounding the June 2007 raids, which sparked media...
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