In the surreal world of the Department of Homeland Security, there occurred an immigration raid in Nassau County that would make a best selling tv series. There must have been some reason to stage this carnival of a raid. Why in the world would immigration agents want to wear cowboy hats, carry shotguns, and God forbid, automatic weapons? Why would they find a need to gather from all parts of the country? What was so important about this chaotic mass arrest?
Even worse, DHS has denied the charges. Sounds like the American version of the German SS is beginning to lose control - and their administration appears to be supporting this behavior.
Between this and the news of a secession convention, it makes you wonder what is really going on in the U.S.
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October 3, 2007
Raids Were a Shambles, Nassau Complains to U.S.
New York Times
By NINA BERNSTEIN
Scores of federal immigration agents from around the country, some wearing cowboy hats and brandishing shotguns and automatic weapons, endangered residents and local police officers last week as they raided homes in Nassau County in a poorly planned antigang operation, county officials charged yesterday.
Lawrence W. Mulvey, the Nassau County police commissioner, said that in two instances the immigration agents mistakenly drew their guns on Nassau County police detectives during operations that resulted in the arrests of 186 immigrants on Long Island.
Thomas R. Suozzi, the Nassau County executive, said yesterday that he was demanding an investigation into the agents’ conduct by the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Mr. Mulvey said that many United States citizens and legal residents were rousted from bed and were required to produce papers during an operation so ill-conceived that all but 6 out of 96 administrative warrants issued by the immigration enforcement agency in the search for gang members had wrong or outdated addresses.
In one case, agents were seeking a 28-year-old man with a photo taken when he was 7. Of more than 90 people arrested in Nassau County, most were illegal immigrant workers with no criminal record, Mr. Mulvey said, some with young children who were frightened by the immigration agents’ “inappropriate” behavior. “There were clear dangers of friendly fire,” he said of the operation, in which Nassau police provided standby support.
In a sharply worded letter to Michael Chertoff, the secretary of homeland security, Mr. Suozzi asked for an investigation into what he called “serious allegations of misconduct and malfeasance committed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel in executing arrest warrants in various Nassau County communities on Sept. 24 and 26, 2007...”
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