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Posted on: April 25th, 2008
Filed Under: [ Community ] [ Immigration ] [ Top Stories ] [ Arizona ]
Schools are figuring out what to do if families are broken up. Hispanics, no matter their citizenship or immigration status, are avoiding public places. And the police, planning for possible chaos, have squads of officers on standby, ready to quell civil unrest should it break out.
Mesa, it seems, has become a city on edge, its people wondering what will happen next.
“Everyone is mortified - alarmed, really,” said a Spanish-speaking man in central Mesa. Though he was a legal U.S. resident, he asked that his name not be used for fear he would be targeted in the sweeps.”*
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