Immigration crackdown debated

“What happened in tiny Stillmore, Ga., either delights or disturbs observers of the nation’s immigration debate.

As part of a get-tough campaign against America’s estimated 12 million undocumented workers, immigration agents over Labor Day weekend raided a Hispanic community with connections to a poultry plant, sweeping up 125 people in a series of raids across three mid-Georgia counties, with Stillmore at the epicenter.

But was the raid legal? And was it right? In a lawsuit filed Wednesday in Federal Court in Atlanta, the Southern Poverty Law Center claims the constitutional rights of six US citizens were violated by overzealous agents during the Stillmore raids. Moreover, they allege the government used “Gestapo-like tactics” as part of a deliberate campaign of fear ordered by the Department of Homeland Security.”

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