A New Jersey mayor has capitulated to a craven assault on the rights of immigrants. City police will be able to detain immigrants anywhere in the city, fine them up to $500.00, and hold them for for 30 days. An area particularly targeted is the well known "The Muster Zone" on Throckmorton Street, where day laborers gather to wait for employers to pick them up. Other areas affected by the regulations include the monitoring of apartments and/or houses where immigrants are suspected of living, and taxicab companies owned and/or operated by Latino drivers. In the case of cab companies, the Latinos are being required to demonstrate English proficiency to an investigating officer and provide proof of legal residence and verification of a clean criminal record. This process is carried out by the police against the suspected immigrant without the issuance of a moving violation or any other infraction of civil or criminal law. Find out more, and voice your opposition, here.
1/11/2004
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Josh Eidelson received his Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Political Science from Yale University, where he helped lead the Undergraduate Organizing Committee. He has written about local and national politics as an opinion columnist for the Yale DailyNews, a research fellow for Talking Points Media, and a contributor to CampusProgress.org. Views expressed here are solely his own. Contact: "jeidelson" at "gmail" dot com.
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