Supporters of the Danbury 11 announced today that the formation of a east coast regional meeting to address the recent crackdown by Danbury and the federal govermennt on immigrants.
The event will be held on February 25th at 4 PM at the Ives Concert Hall (White Hall), Western Connecticut State University.
Homeland Security is disappearing thousands of immigrant workers from their homes and workplaces every week. Its agents are forcibly breaking up families, trampling civil liberties, and violating due process rights. They have attacked union worksites and day laborer centers and tried to bust union organizing drives. Raids, arrests, and deportations have become a regular feature of life in towns which not one year ago witnessed historic mobilizations for immigrant rights.
Supporters of immigrant rights need to regroup and think out how best to address this national crackdown.
Immigrants in Danbury have led the struggle in Connecticut, including the defeat of Mayor Boughton’s proposal in 2005 to deputize state troopers to deport immigrants. But Homeland Security has disappeared 23 immigrant workers from Danbury in 4 months. Mayor Boughton encourages the arrests and lends the resources of City Hall to terrorize the immigrant residents of Danbury.
Join forces from across the region to discuss an effective response to these ongoing attacks, and hear a panel featuring:
Speakers (List in formation):
Ana Avendaño, Associate General Counsel and Director, AFL-CIO Immigrant Workers Program
Anabel Pimentel and Reina Campos, Victims of Raids in the Swift Meatpacking Plant in Hyrum, Utah
Lawyer for the Immigrants of Hazelton, Pa. from the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund
Carola Otero Bracco, Director, Day Laborers Center, Mount Kisco, NY
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On September 26, 2007, ten plaintiffs filed suit in response to an arrest of aday laborers at a public park in Danbury, Connecticut. Plaintiffs amended their complaint on November 26, 2007.
The amended complaint states that plaintiffs sought to remedy the continued discriminatory and unauthorized enforcement of federal immigration laws against the Latino residents of the City of Danbury by Danbury's mayor and its police department.
Plaintiffs allege that the arrests violated their Fourth Amendment rights and the Connecticut Constitution because defendants conducted the arrests without valid warrants, in the absence of exigent circumstances, and without probable cause to believe that plaintiffs were engaged in unlawful activity. In addition, plaintiffs allege that defendants improperly stopped, detained, investigated, searched and arrested plaintiffs. Plaintiffs also allege that defendants violated their Fourteenth Amendment rights when they intentionally targeted plaintiffs, and arrested and detained them on the basis of their race, ethnicity and perceived national origin. Plaintiffs raise First Amendment, Due Process and tort claims.
Plaintiffs request declaratory relief, damages and attorneys fees.
On September 26, 2007, ten plaintiffs filed suit in response to an arrest of aday laborers at a public park in Danbury, Connecticut. Plaintiffs amended their complaint on November 26, 2007.
