Posted on 03/11/2011 11:53:08 AM PST by moonshinner_09
Both sides are claiming victory in the $650,000 settlement of a lawsuit brought by a group of day laborers who charged their September 2006 arrests in Danbury, Conn. were unlawful and based on racial profiling.
According to Yale Law School’s Worker & Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic, which helped represent the men pro bono and issued a press release about the settlement, “This is the largest monetary settlement ever paid out to day laborers by any municipality in the country.”
“I have no idea what the basis for that assertion is,” said Dan Casagrande, the lead trial counsel representing the city of Danbury and its mayor. “The city’s insurance carrier made a decision to settle the case for nuisance value. Would we have liked to go forward and try the case and win it, absolutely.”
The events that sparked the lawsuit are not in dispute: On September 19, 2006, eleven men—soon to be known as “The Danbury 11”—were picked up near a local park by a police officer posing as a contractor. Offered work, the men got into his van, and he drove them a few blocks away to a bank parking lot, where they were turned over to federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.
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Danbury. Great place......if you’re a bullet
So let me get this straight, When you are looking for Mexicans here illegally it is illegal to look for and arrest Mexicans?
So let me get this straight, When you are looking for Mexicans here illegally it is illegal to look for and arrest Mexicans?
but, are they illegals?
Article never mentions what they were arrested for. What could it be? Jaywalking?
This is ludicrous.
Imagine I am a narc —I pose as a person wishing to buy drugs, then I buy the drugs with audio/video, then I arrest the drug-seller.
By what alternative might the authorities enforce the law...?
Yale appears to desire to to make it IMPOSSIBLE to keep aliens out of the country.
All I could find was the two opposing lawyers arguing,
"Largest immigration settlement ever!! ("wheee, I'm rich!)
"No, it's not!" (I can't believe that I lost so bad!")
"Yes, it is"
"No it wasn't"
"Naaa naaa naaa"
"Pthooooweee to youeeeee"
U.S. Citizens have no "Standing" to ask for proof of Qualifications of the POTUS, but foreign criminal invaders have "Standing" to file a Civil Suit against American Citizens, in OUR country, and the taxpayers are held accountable and are fleeced?
Bring back lynching, to take care of the problems ourselves, INCLUDING Ambulance-Chasers who just chase the money.
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