Immigration Authorities Raid Little Village Mall
Several Agencies Target Counterfeit Document Ring
Witnesses say up to 200 agents stormed the mall, locking it down and asking everyone inside and in the parking lot for IDs.
“They told me they had more than 122 people in custody, but they let them go, mostly. They got in custody 18 people,”
"Apparantly they had 60 warrants. It appears that they rounded up over 160 people,” said Fr. Brendan Curran of St. Pius Catholic Church. “They have 16 detained at this moment… we’re not sure why.”
"They had machine guns, shotguns, bullet-proof vests. It was a huge, huge endeavor,” (Ald. Ricardo) Munoz (22nd)
story w/photo
google's news link to 11 raid stories
~While reporting this story local tv news ran no photos or videos of the raid, of the federal officers in uniform doing their sworn duty serving their warrants and upholding the laws of the land. Which is odd because this mall is about a fifteen minute drive in midday from the garages of local CBS, NBC and ABC affliliated offices with their mobile news vans and closer still to the two Chicago daily newspapers with their (one time) award winning photo journalists. Perhaps the reporters and photographers from those news organizations were all out to lunch at the time of this raid.
see also this item Terror Raid (that's how google or the SunTimes' columnist titled it)
Tipsville: Sneed hears the federal raid Tuesday on a mall in Little Village, which culminated in the arrest of people charged with producing fraudulent immigration documents, has an ancillary twist.
• To wit: The feds feared the documents could be used by terrorists to skirt immigration laws.
from article BY MICHAEL SNEED Sun-Times Columnist
>perhaps related:
Migrants Used to Justify a Homeland Security Police State
[excerpt]
Other new...programs include US government contracting with Lockheed-Martin to design and develop enormous unmanned airships, seventeen times the size of the Goodyear blimp, outfitted with high-resolution cameras to spy on the Mexican border. The airships are designed to float 12 miles above the earth, far above planes and weather systems. The high-resolution camera will watch over a circle of countryside 600 miles in diameter and could be moved to spy on any region of the US.
article by By Peter Phillips | TruthOut
~Are immigrants "the threat from within"--a phrase I've seen in print on a few occasions in the past year? Or is "the threat from within" an altogether different population poised to attack America's freedom?
Posted by Stubbornson at April 25, 2007 05:56 AM