ROCLA presents: Raids Against Migrant Workers Must Stop

FROM THE ROCHESTER COMMITTEE ON LATIN AMERICA Raids Against Migrant Workers Must Stop: Discussion and Action Against Human Rights Abuses in Our Community The public is invited to a presentation with audio-visual reflections about a serious human rights crisis in our region: the raids and arrests of migrant workers in our community. On Wednesday, November 5, at 7 PM, at the Downtown Presbyterian Church, 121 N. Fitzhugh Street. Sister Luci Romero, Padre Jesus Flores, and Lory and Nancy Ghertner will share their experiences and lead a discussion aimed at a plan of community action with other groups working on this issue. Loret Gnivecki Steinberg will provide us with audio-visual documentation. We will explore ideas ranging from whether or not this area should join with 30 communities across the US that are a part of the New Sanctuary Movement to the possibility of starting a legal defense/emergency relief fund. BACKGROUND: At 6 AM on Sunday morning, September 28, 40 agents of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), dressed in civilian clothes and without a search warrant, broke into workers’ houses at a migrant labor camp at 7448 Ridge Road in Sodus. ICE agents broke down the door at one house and arrested the husband of a woman who was pregnant and two of their children who were sleeping. In another house they took a woman and her four children, ages 4-12. Women were taken to Oswego County Jail and men to the Batavia Detention Center. A total of ten migrant workers were arrested, including four children. Downtown Presbyterian Church, at 121 N. Fitzhugh St. in Rochester is wheelchair-accessible and looped for those with hearing loss. Parking across the street in the City Hall lot. The meeting is free and the public is welcome. Contact: Bob Kaiser, 293-3194

<p>FROM THE ROCHESTER COMMITTEE ON LATIN AMERICA</p> <p>Raids Against Migrant Workers Must Stop: Discussion and Action Against Human Rights Abuses in Our Community</p> <p>The public is invited to a presentation with audio-visual reflections about a serious human rights crisis in our region: the raids and arrests of migrant workers in our community.</p> <p>On Wednesday, November 5, at 7 PM, at the Downtown Presbyterian Church, 121 N. Fitzhugh Street. Sister Luci Romero, Padre Jesus Flores, and Lory and Nancy Ghertner will share their experiences and lead a discussion aimed at a plan of community action with other groups working on this issue. Loret Gnivecki Steinberg will provide us with audio-visual documentation. We will explore ideas ranging from whether or not this area should join with 30 communities across the US that are a part of the New Sanctuary Movement to the possibility of starting a legal defense/emergency relief fund.</p> <p> BACKGROUND: At 6 AM on Sunday morning, September 28, 40 agents of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), dressed in civilian clothes and without a search warrant, broke into workers’ houses at a migrant labor camp at 7448 Ridge Road in Sodus. ICE agents broke down the door at one house and arrested the husband of a woman who was pregnant and two of their children who were sleeping. In another house they took a woman and her four children, ages 4-12. Women were taken to Oswego County Jail and men to the Batavia Detention Center. A total of ten migrant workers were arrested, including four children.</p> <p>Downtown Presbyterian Church, at 121 N. Fitzhugh St. in Rochester is wheelchair-accessible and looped for those with hearing loss. Parking across the street in the City Hall lot.<br /> The meeting is free and the public is welcome.</p> <p>Contact: Bob Kaiser, 293-3194</p>