From the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), July 10: NEW YORK – The American Civil Liberties Union filed a landmark lawsuit today to stop the government from conducting surveillance under a new wiretapping law that gives the Bush administration virtually… Read moreACLU pledges to challenge wiretapping law
On June 26, Palestinian professor Sami Al-Arian was charged in US District Court in Alexandria, Va., with two counts of criminal contempt for refusing to testify before a grand jury which is investigating whether Islamic charities in northern Virginia were… Read moreUS indicts Palestinian detainee Al-Arian
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested or helped arrest 489 people in “Operation Community Shield” raids announced between June 2 and July 2, targeting foreign-born alleged gang members in Kansas, Virginia, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Georgia and Texas. On… Read moreNearly 500 arrested in ICE anti-gang raids
On July 3, ICE arrested supervisors Juan Carlos Guerrero Espinoza and Martin De la Rosa Loera at the Agriprocessors kosher meatpacking plant owned by Aaron Rubashkin in Postville, Iowa. Federal prosecutors said they had also issued an arrest warrant for… Read moreICE arrests supervisors at Iowa meat plant
Over a five-day period ending June 24, ICE Fugitive Operations Teams carried out a series of coordinated sweeps through southeast Wisconsin, the Chicago metropolitan area, southwestern Kansas and central Nebraska, arresting a total of 158 people, of whom fewer than… Read moreMore ICE “fugitive” raids in Midwest
On June 26, ICE agents executed a federal civil search warrant at an aircraft manufacturing plant in Arlington, Wash., arresting 32 of the company’s workers—16 women and 16 men—on administrative immigration violations. Two of the workers are from El Salvador;… Read moreICE raids Washington aerospace plant
Early on June 25, some 200 agents from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raided Action Rags USA, an international supplier of used clothing and rags in Houston, Texas. The ICE agents executed a federal search warrant at the plant… Read moreHuge ICE raid at Houston clothing company
A two-year investigation of a 2,000-acre property in Humboldt County’s Lost River area, Operation Southern Sweep went above ground this week as an invading force of 450 federal and state agents descended in convoys of as many as 200 vehicles… Read more“Southern Sweep” raids shake California’s Emerald Triangle
On June 11 and 12, ICE agents from the Rhode Island Fugitive Operations Team arrested 42 immigrants from Brazil, Guatemala and Mexico in the areas of Newport and Middletown, Rhode Island. Half of those arrested—21 people—were identified by ICE as… Read moreRhode Island: 42 arrested in ICE “fugitve” raid
On June 10, sheriff’s deputies in Maricopa County, Ariz., raided two water parks in the Phoenix area and arrested nine workers on charges of suspicion of identity theft and using forged documents to obtain employment. The raid followed a four-month… Read moreTest-case busts in Arizona anti-immigrant measure
On June 9, Sun Valley Floral Farms in northern California’s Humboldt County fired 283 employees after a letter from ICE informed the company that the workers are not eligible to work in the US because their Social Security numbers do… Read more“No match” firings at California farm
On June 4, ICE agents executed a federal search warrant at the business office of Boss 4 Packing in Heber, California, a locally-owned company that provides contract workers to farms in southern California’s Imperial Valley. The search warrant remains under… Read moreICE arrests California farmworkers
