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“The fight over CASA Latina’s relocation to 17th Avenue South and South Jackson Street got even uglier this week when Judicial Watch, a right-wing group instrumental in the 2004 attacks on John Kerry’s war record””among other things””entered the fray.
Last May, a 16-member neighborhood committee was assembled to work out a Good Neighbor Agreement with CASA Latina after area residents became concerned the immigrant-worker center might bring trouble to the area.
The committee struggled to reach an agreement and several members and neighbors””opposed to CASA Latina’s relocation to their neighborhood””called in the cavalry, in the form of Judicial Watch. Neighborhood resident and committee fill-in Alfred Shiga said he is concerned about a potential increase in crime in the neighborhood. “The government has a duty to uphold [immigration] law,” he said. Shiga also noted, contradictorily, that “work should be done to change the law.”"
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