Rumors fly as feds deny immig raids

Rumors fly as feds deny immig raids



BY LESLIE CASIMIR
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Rumours are rampant in the city's immigrant communities that federal agents are swooping down into neighborhoods and plucking undocumented workers from restaurants, car washes and even soccer fields.

"My employees are nervous to come to work now," said Ana, a Woodhaven, Queens, hair salon owner who called the Daily News to report an unsubstantiated raid of a Latino food restaurant on Jamaica Ave. and 104th St. "I really don't know what to tell them."

The stories are not true, advocates and immigration officials say.

Yet, they continue to spread quickly among tens of thousands of New Yorkers who live and work without legal papers - and for whom the fear of deportation, real or not, is ever present.

Dozens of organizations held an emergency meeting in Queens on April 28 to discuss the paranoia, said Monami Maulik, executive director of Desis Rising Up and Moving or DRUM.

The false rumors seem to have started after the federal Department of Homeland Security announced last month that it was stepping up efforts targeting employers who hire undocumented workers.

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There are several glaring problems with this article. The use of the phrases, "Undocumented workers, false rumors, and we don't do random sweeps."

It's not 'undocumented workers,' 'its illegal invaders.' Why are these 'false rumors' and not 'hard fact'? Why doesn't the INS do 'random sweeps'? In fact why didn't the Feds swoop down during the 'illegal invader marches' and make mass arrests? Why aren't businesses who employ 'illegal invaders' being prosecuted with the the 'RICO Act'? What business is doing is surely a criminal conspiracy to break US law and a clear cut case of a willingness to continue to do so.