Posted on: May 5th, 2008
Filed Under: [ Immigration ] [ Eye Openers ]
Tags: deportation, Raids
An effort by the Irish to secure a special immigration deal solely for illegal immigrants from Ireland isn’t sitting well with some of their former partners in the fight for an overhaul of federal immigration policy.
Although immigrant organizations officially have refrained from criticizing the Irish, many rank-and-file Hispanic immigrants — who say their families have been hit hardest by deportations — are saying they are shocked that the Irish are quietly working for a separate pact with federal officials.
“It’s absurd that they’re working alone. We should unite together,” Segundo Alvarez, 54, said at a May 1 rally in Union Square for workers’ rights, during which participants criticized a recent wave of workplace raids and deportations, mostly of Hispanic immigrants.”*
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