Today, Rosalina Tipton wrote a letter to the editor which addressed the recent anti-immigrant hate-crimes that were committed in the tri-state area. For those who don't know, recently an Ecuadorian immigrant was viciously attacked in murdered in Suffolk County...a county known for it's extreme anti-immigrant rhetoric.
n Suffolk County, N.Y., the Hispanic community is mourning the murder of an Ecuadorian immigrant, Marcello Lucero, stabbed to death by a group of teenagers in what appears to be a hate crime.
Until it is no longer excusable to deny any non-criminal person on our shores the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, until justice is denied to none, and until crimes of hate are no longer condoned silently, or with hateful rhetoric, the dreams of our forefathers cannot fully become reality.
Now, you can imagine the response from the xenophobes that pollute the News-Times boards:
Okay, lets review the ugly.
1. In Suffolk County, an ECUADORIAN IMMIGRANT was attacked and murdered because he was an IMMIGRANT that "looked" like an illegal immigrant.
2. In the minds of the xenophobes, the attack is justified because the person shouldn't have been in the country. In other words, if you kill someone who's "appears" to "look" like an illegal, and he or she IS an illegal, then it's okay.
As you can see, the rhetoric and calls for violence against immigrants just as appalling in Danbury as it is in Suffolk County...and seeing the close relationship and identical rhetoric between Mayor Boughton and Suffolk County Executive, Steve Levy, this should not come as a coincidence.
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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.
