Jailing Undocumented Immigrants Is Big Business (VIDEO): "LOS ANGELES -- At dawn on July 19, nearly 40 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Homeland Security Immigration (HSI) agents burst into the home home of Carmen Bonilla, 44. The agents were searching for 'Robert' an alleged drug dealer, but ended up terrifying Bonilla and her son Michael, 16, daughter Josefina, 23, daughter-in-law Leticia, 28, and two of her granddaughters.
According to Jessica Dominguez, the family's lawyer, and Jorge Mario Cabrera, spokesperson of the Coalition for Human Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA), the family was subjected to 'different levels of physical and verbal abuse,' including screaming, 'kicking, beating and aggression.' Their treatment was documented last week by HuffPost LatinoVoices' Jorge Luis Macías.
What happened to the Bonillas has happened to thousands of immigrant families. Immigration authorities -- both local police and federal ICE agents -- have embarked on a program to seek out 'criminal illegal aliens' and, whether they find them or not, have often rounded up entire families for deportation."
Monday, August 15, 2011
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