It seems like our favorite "deer in the headlights" and President of the local anti-immigrant whack-pack's scam of a vigil didn't fool anyone besides the anti-immigrant xenophobes who refuse to use any common sense or exhibit any sense of moral decency.
These two members of the clergy shows Marciano the error in her ways...not like this stubborn woman would listen to anything resembling reason.
We were dismayed by Sunnye Ann Rosasco's comments (letter, July 11) about the low clergy attendance at the vigil for victims of undocumented workers.
As Christians, we know perfect love casts out all fear. And we know focusing public attention on victims of the few undocumented workers who have committed crimes builds fear and empowers generalization and degradation of all undocumented workers as well as many legal and naturalized Latino immigrants.
As Christians, in reading Torah (First Testament, Pentateuch), we are reminded that we are all aliens, that this world and everything in it belongs to God. And we are told that we are to treat "aliens" in the way we wish to be treated.
As Christians, we are told that whatever we do to the very least of God's people, we do to our Lord. When we victimize all undocumented workers, taking away their dignity and turning our hearts against them, we do it to him.
We have made those we label the least victims of our hate and fear. How, then, can most of us who call ourselves Christian, and those of us who are clergy, attend a vigil that builds hate toward all people who are labeled undocumented because of the harm some have brought to others?
If we cannot have a vigil for all people who have fallen victim to violence, including immigrants, legal and undocumented, we should not be part of a gathering that singles out any one group as all evil.
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We need immigration reform. We all agree with that. But we do not agree to the criminalizing of all the undocumented. They, too, are children of God.
Rev. James Mulligan Rev. Gail Keeney-Mulligan NEW MILFORD
In honor of this great letter, I present this following video that further drives the point home.
04.25.22 (RADIO): WSHU Latino group call on Connecticut lawmakers to open a Danbury charter school
06.03.22 (OP-ED): KUSHNER: "Career Academy ‘a great deal for Danbury"
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.
Poor Elise.
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.
