Posted on 10/09/2019 8:58:44 AM PDT by Pontiac
Hispanic workers, families and neighbors held a press conference, to call attention to what they feel is the continued harassment of Hispanics in Painesville by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Veronica Dahlberg of HOLA says early this morning, ICE agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars staked out the Perry Trailer Park, where 95% of the homes are Mexican American families.
Upon leaving the trailer park to go to work, Vicente Hernandez, a married father of three US citizen children, was arrested as he left for work. At least two other parents were taken as well.
Dahlberg says Vicente is the well-known singer for the popular mariachi band, Mariachi Santa Cecilia, which has performed throughout Northeast Ohio. Last year, they performed a birthday tribute for Cleveland Indians player Yonder Alonso.
“Cleveland ICE continues its arbitrary and discriminatory surveillance of our Mexican American neighborhoods, creating terror for families and children,” says Dahlberg. “This is not the way to do immigration policy. It is brutal and un-American. We need answers from Ohio’s elected representatives. How long will they allow this campaign of terror, which is based on anti-Hispanic sentiment, to continue? How many more children will be left without parents before they finally do something?”
Dahlberg says the Painesville-area's Latino community is demanding answers after continued surveillance of Mexican neighborhoods and Pre-Dawn Apprehensions by ICE. They want the regions congressional lawmakers to put a stop to this, and to fight for fair immigration reform.
Lots of illegals working the greenhouses and farms
If these people would follow the law their children would not be left without parents.
So, why blame ICE?
We demand you go back to your home country, then get in line to come back here legally.
Once you do that, the ICE raids will end.
Ohio Ping
“Cleveland ICE continues its arbitrary and discriminatory surveillance of our Mexican American neighborhoods”
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Interesting that they portray it that way.
My first thought when I heard/read about this was that they were undercover and plain cloths because they were waiting for someone specific. IE: they are not randomly or generically targeting. They simply have intel or find it more likely that whomever they are seeking will show up there.
ICE raids will stop when border raids end.
more ICE raids please!
So, why blame ICE?
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Same reason certain people blame police for doing their job; The result of their legitimate job activity is highly inconvenient for them.
They’ve got quite a ‘blind spot’ when it comes to following the law ...
I almost thought it was my county in Florida. I would have been shocked. Northeast Ohio? Not so much.
Fraudulently Documented Foreigners Demand End to US laws.
Next time I get pulled over for running a light or speeding, I’m going to tell the cop I’m driving an ‘undocumented emergency vehicle’ ...
Dear Latino Community of Lake County OH,
No.
Love,
ICE
to fight for fair immigration reform.
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What they mean by this is amnesty, which Flimsey Grahamnesty, Micro Rubio and the rest of the Bush League Republicans are STILL working on.
If we want to keep the rule of law and our country we have to replace the Democrats in R jerseys.
No where in the article is there anyone saying that those being arrested are not criminal aliens present in the country illegally. ICE is only doing the job we Americans pay and expect them to do. I demand that you illegals and illegal alien supporters lay off of ICE now.
Said the un-American.
Aw. They don’t want their relatives to leave?
Boohoo.
Arresting criminals is “brutal and un-American and is not the way to do immigration policy.”
The illogic of these idiots is always astonishing to witness.
Fraudulently Documented Foreigners CRIMINALS Demand End to US laws.
Unconstitutional anchor babies.
“...Upon leaving the trailer park to go to work, Vicente Hernandez, a married father of three US citizen children...”
Would they write, “Bill Jones, a married father of three U.S.-citizen children was arrested for bank robbery today”?
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