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Annapolis ICE Raids - July 2008

The Raids in Annapolis - Locked and Loaded
July 11, 2008 ? 2 Comments
According to an article published this week, inhumane tactics were used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents during last weeks raids in in Annapolis, Maryland. ICE agents raided worksites and private homes in an attempt to crack down on undocumented migrants in the area. And crack down they did.

According to many of the witnesses, doors and windows were kicked in, guns were brandished and residents were terrorized.

Take Eduardo Delgado. His front door was smashed down by police before he was taken into custody.

Ingrid Munoz, an American citizen married to a legal resident who worked for Annapolis Painting Services, said she woke up when agents pounded on her door. They wouldn?t let her or her husband get dressed, so she answered their questions wearing a tank top, her underwear and a towel.

The white wooden door frame on Jaclyn Munoz?s house off Forest Drive was splintered when agents broke into her home. She?s not even an illegal immigrant, she said.

Shannon Brown, an American citizen, said when her boyfriend opened their door, the house was surrounded by at least 20 agents. One pointed a gun at him, yelling in Spanish.

?He doesn?t even speak Spanish,? she said.

They searched the apartment while she got her two daughters, ages 4 and 7, out. She didn?t want them to see the raid.

All of this in order to apprehend hard-working people, not criminals. These are people with families they are working to support and care for. ?Handcuffs are not meant for working hands.?

In the opinion of one immigrant rights advocate, these tactics will hurt both ICE and local law enforcement in the end.

?Immigration is a civil offense, not a criminal offense,? he said. ?So when they act like this, what they?re doing is scaring people and breaking the trust that people have in law enforcement.?

as reported in the FIRM, likely from Capital Newspaper

Delay of I9 modification

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced Friday it has delayed until April 3, 2009, the implementation of an interim final rule entitled “Documents Acceptable for Employment Eligibility Verification”. The rule simplifies the Employment Eligibility Verification (Form I-9) process. Under the interim rule, employers will no longer be able to accept expired documents to verify employment authorization on the Form I-9. The interim final rule and an copy of the revised Form I-9 are available at www.regulations.gov.

E Verify - Court challenge

The federal government has agreed to delay the implementation of a requirement for federal contractors and subcontractors to use the E-Verify program until February 20, 2009. The rule was scheduled to take effect on January 15.

The system has complaints of being overly error prone.

Homeland secuity as reported by AP

WASHINGTON – If you're a criminal and you're not entitled to be in the United States, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano wants you out of the country. Napolitano wants what she calls "criminal aliens" off American streets. She is looking at existing immigration enforcement programs to see if taxpayers are getting the most bang for their buck.

Emilio Gutierrez Soto had been held in a Texas facility for seven months. He fled Mexico because he said he feared for his life after writing critically of the military. – as reported in LA Times

U.S. immigration authorities surprised press-freedom activists Thursday when they released a journalist -- fleeing alleged Mexican government persecution -- who had been held in a Texas detention center for seven months.
Emilio Gutierrez Soto walked out of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in El Paso late in the afternoon and expressed relief that he would soon be reunited with his 15-year-old son. "I still don't believe it. I need to wake up," Gutierrez, 46, said in a telephone interview.
The case had outraged Reporters Without Borders and other media advocacy groups. They said the journalist -- seeking asylum after purported death threats -- endured the extended detention without a hearing or adequate explanation from the U.S. government.

Perez v. Brownwell

In 1958, a divided United States Supreme Court upheld these decisions because Perez "became involved in foreign political affairs and evidenced an allegiance to another country inconsistent with American citizenship, thereby abandoning his citizenship."

Two central holdings of Perez v. Brownell found that

The provision of the Fourteenth Amendment that "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States," sets forth the two principal modes (but not the only ones) for acquiring citizenship, but nothing in the terms, the context, the history, or the manifest purpose of the Fourteenth Amendment warrants the inference of a restriction upon the power otherwise possessed by Congress to withdraw citizenship.
Congress, acting under the Necessary and Proper Clause of Art I, 8, cl 18, of the Federal Constitution, may attach loss of nationality to voting in a foreign political election, since the means, withdrawal of citizenship, is reasonably calculated to effect the end that is within the power of Congress to achieve, the avoidance of embarrassment in the conduct of foreign relations attributable to voting by American citizens in such elections, and the importance and extreme delicacy of the matters sought to be regulated demand that Congress be permitted ample scope in selecting appropriate modes for accomplishing its purpose.