Yale Daily News

Updated: Monday, November 23, 2009 2:30 p.m.

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Timing of raids may have been incidental

Staff Reporter, Staff Reporter, Staff Reporter, Staff Reporter
Published Monday, October 6, 2008

Over a year ago, city officials called immigration raids that ripped to shreds the stability of the Fair Haven neighborhood “retaliatory” to the city’s passage of the Elm City Resident Card in June 2007.

Yet e-mails obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request suggest that the timing of the raids may have been relatively innocuous.

The missives — sent between the United States Attorney’s Office in Connecticut and the Immigration & Customs Enforcement division of the Department of Homeland Security and collected by immigration lawyers over the last few months — were...

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