News Channel 5 in Nashville, TN, published an article on its website on 10 July about illegal aliens suing local officials for illegally arresting them. They are claiming $100 a day for their incarceration until they are thrown out of the US in their suit against the Maury County Sheriffs' Office, and the Sheriff himself.
Nowhere does the article describe these as "illegal" immigrants. But they would not be in jail, awaiting deportation, if their status were legal.
The illegals were arrested during a raid conducted by the Sheriff and immigration officers at a mobile home park near Nashville. They were searching for, and apparently found, a man wanted for rape. The article quotes a local resident as saying, "she's scared the officers are targeting Hispanics." The rape suspect was Hispanic, as were the illegal aliens who were found and arrested.
There is no indication that the ACLU is directly involved in this case. But there is no question that the thinking here - illegal aliens have a "right" to be in the US and anyone who interferes with that "right" should pay - is right up the ACLU alley.
Go here, to find this story on the Internet:
http://www.newschannel5.com/Global/story.asp?S=6771363
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VVPryD Parks was born Rosa McCauley in Tuskegee, Alabama. When she was still a young child her parents separated, and she moved with her mother to Montgomery. There she grew up in an extended family that included her maternal grandparents and her younger brother, Sylvester. Montgomery, Alabama, was hardly a hospitable city for blacks in the 1920s and 1930s. As she grew up, Rosa was shunted into second-rate all-black schools, such as the Montgomery Industrial School for Girls, and she faced daily rounds of laws governing her behavior in public places. Ms. magazine contributor Eloise Greenfield noted that Rosa always detested having to drink from special water fountains and having to forgo lunch at the whites-only restaurants downtown. Still, wrote Greenfield, "with her mother's help, Rosa was able to grow up proud of herself and other black people, even while living with these rules.... People should be judged by the respect they have for themselves and others, Mrs. McCauley said. Rosa grew up believing this."
Posted by Rosa McCauley | July 21, 2007 2:06 PM
Posted on July 21, 2007 14:06