In Georgia, with the fastest growing illegal immigrant population, "The number more than doubled from an estimated 220,000 in 2000 to 470,000 last year."
The state passed 'crack down laws.' Now, "A civil rights group sued the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency Wednesday, claiming its agents had harassed five U.S. citizens of Mexican descent during raids targeting illegal immigrants in southeast Georgia.
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The Southern Poverty Law Center said the agents were engaging in a "Gestapo-like" campaign to drive Latinos out of the area. It claimed the agents entered houses without warrants, stopped cars on the street, terrified Latinos and vandalized their property."
If true, it would be horrible. But given our government's long history of having to be forced to enforce immigration laws at all, do we believe the plaintiffs or ICE which says the accusations are ""patently false?"
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061101/ap_on_re_us/immigration_lawsuit_4
2006-11-02
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