Reply #17: a witness at the scene says that there was a group harassing various nonwhite people... [View All]

All of the ACLU lawyers and immigrants rights volunteers I spoke to today suspected that the arrest and deportation of these six immigrants was prompted by racial profiling. Today, I was able to observe how one African-American woman was accused of stealing supplies as she loaded her belongings unto her SUV. I asked her what was happening and she assured me that all the things in her car belonged to her and her children. I could tell she was telling the truth because none of the things I saw in her car were the same as the items that were being distributed at the site. This did not stop several overzealous European-American onlookers from writing down her license plate, taking digital camera pictures of her car, and commenting on her ‘audacity’ for taking so many things.