Villaraigosa on immigration – The mayor is right to ask DHS to focus on crime-fighting instead of workplace raids.

Although a recent spate of violent crime has focused much of the city’s attention on gangs, there is another source of fearful social upheaval rippling through Los Angeles: immigration raids. Although they certainly do not threaten residents’ welfare and security with deadly gunfire, the continual rounding up of illegal immigrants at their places of employment is having serious consequences within and without the Latino community.

Because illegal immigrants are entrenched in many sectors of local business, such as the food, garment and furniture industries — and because employers do not have a foolproof way to determine workers’ legal status — the arrestsof employees who are suspected of no crime other than being in the country illegally is shaking the region’s already fragile economy. “*

*From: www.latimes.com
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