Maury County TN Sheriff Under Fire for Racial Profiling of Hispanics
The Hispanic Organization for Progress & Education (H.O.P.E), NAACP (State Level) and the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Coalition, we will be hearing the concerns of a fearful community. The Hispanic community is being told not to attend the community meeting because the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will conduct a raid on the premises. There have been two raids in Columbia, TN that has netted 124 undocumented immigrants. Because of these raids there is outright Racial Profiling that has now spilled over into the Indian and Pakistani communities. Many are being stopped, questioned, and later let go only after finding out that they are not of Hispanic origin.
If someone is legally here they should not have anything to fear. If someone is here with blatant disregard to immigration laws then they should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. We are at war, have troops in harms way and have a right to know who is here and what their intentions might be.
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I agree
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I completely agree. We have the right to know who is here, why and for how long!
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Thanks Dave, this is the first chance I have had to get online today and the connection is very slow.
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I am very concerned that agencies of this country will propose and protect those who are here in complete disregard to our laws regarding immigration. I dont have any problem with legal immigrants but I do not want illegals here. The picture we are painting is that it is okay to break or disobey laws of a country. It is not just this country but others as well. We have a right to protect our borders and our legal residents.
Maybe we should be concerned with the manner that Mexico handles illegal immigrants in their country. They kill them or swiftly deport them to their country and not in a gentle manner or with suspect agencies in that country advocating the breaking of Mexican laws to protect the world. Each country has a right and obligation to protect its citizen and to see that everyone is treated fairly but you do not have the right to demand any protection in this country or claim freedoms if you are not a citizen. Go home and return the legal way. That means everyone.
I have a friend who cannot immigrate to America because she lives in the Phillipines and is unable to sneak across a border into this country. She has tried the legal way and has had no success because of all the illegals that are here already. Maybe we should go back to the way immigration quotas were handled before and restrict immigration to all peoples of the world.
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I know how you feel, you are not alone I have some friends who came here legally from the Phillipines one as recent as last year tell you’re friend not to give up…. We will fix this mess one way or another…
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