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| Subject: Excellent: Undocumented immigrants take cause to defiant new level Sat Sep 22, 2012 6:47 pm | |
| A growing number of undocumented immigrants in Arizona and other states are taking immigration protests to a new extreme, staging acts of civil disobedience by deliberately getting arrested in order to be turned over to federal immigration officials.
Often wearing T-shirts declaring themselves "undocumented and unafraid," the protesters have sat down in streets and blocked traffic, or occupied buildings in several cities including Phoenix and Tucson.
Dozens of protesters have been arrested, but in almost every case, federal immigration officers have declined to deport those in the country illegally. Protesters say they are planning more acts of civil disobedience.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012/09/22/undocumented-immigrants-take-cause-to-defiant-new-level/57824880/1?csp=ip |
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