Immigration Agents ‘Terrorize’ Communities, Obama Says

“The system isn’t working”

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By Fred Lucas, Staff Writer
CNSNews.com

While speaking Sunday at the national convention of the National Council of La Raza, a Latino advocacy group that favors a “pathway to citizenship” for illegal aliens, Democratic presidential candidate Barack http://wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3090 raids.

“The system isn’t working,” said Obama, “when 12 million people live in hiding, and hundreds of thousands cross our borders illegally each year; when companies hire undocumented immigrants instead of legal citizens to avoid paying overtime or to avoid a union; when communities are terrorized by ICE immigration raids; when nursing mothers are torn from their babies; when children come home from school to find their parents missing; when people are detained without access to legal counsel.”

But Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are not out to terrorize anyone, ICE spokeswoman Pat Reilly told Cybercast News Service, while stressing that she was not speaking about the comments of any individual, but only in general terms regarding criticism of ICE.“Raids”– a term Reilly said she does not like – are not random, she said, but are operations that are always ordered by a federal judge or federal prosecutor through a warrant.

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2008-07-15