RUMORS WORRY IMMIGRANTS

Carolyn Hileman* | February 20, 2007

When federal enforcement officials begin rounding up undocumented immigrants anywhere in the United States, local folks begin to fret. The fretting has begun. Although murmurs of possible raids have begun to fly through the rumor mill, there is no evidence that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has conducted operations in Monterey County or anywhere in the Central Coast. Still, on hearing reports that immigration officials are combing the subway and other public spaces in Los Angeles, people up north are beginning to worry. “People are very scared,” said Silvia Huerta, a longtime Salinas activist. “My niece called me to tell me she can’t sleep she’s so nervous. That hasn’t happened here, but we listen to the radio and we hear what’s goes on.”

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