Day 7: El Paso and Ciudad Juarez – The people vs. Samaniego – Texas
Tagged: activist, border, Ciudad Juarez“ONE BY one, they testified. Community activists from the Border Network for Human Rights approached the microphone to bear witness on behalf of El Paso’s migrant community.
We learn of a war that is taking place in the city’s working-class districts, where the local sheriff-turned-vigilante is waging his own personal crusade against immigrants. Sheriff Leo Samaniego decided he would set up roadblocks in Latino communities to shake out the “illegals,” meting out his own form of “frontier justice.””
Source: More information in English / Mas informacíon en Ingles
Fuente Traducido: usando Google o Altavista/Babel Fish
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October 4th, 2006
Fuente Traducido: usando Google o Altavista/Babel Fish
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Filed Under: 1. Hispanic News, Immigration
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