On the Continued Spread of Raids Rumors

March 18, 2010 A statement made by Pedro Rios of the San Diego American Friends Service Committee San Diego, CA - Over the past two weeks our office has been responding to text messages, calls, and emails informing us of either impending immigration raids and/or raids in progress.  During initial calls we sent teams of human rights observers to several locations to verify the validity of those claims.  In each and every instance we could not confirm that an immigration operation was i...

The Immigration Enforcement Rumor Mill

Posted: Thursday, March 18, 2010 3:32 pm Many of the reports about immigration enforcement emerging from local communities in recent weeks have remained unconfirmed. The difficulty of discerning which reports are true is frustrating for local leaders trying to assuage the fear that has paralyzed pockets of San Diego's Latino communities. That's because many of the warnings being spread among the Latino community by text messages and phone calls are being forwarded indiscriminately. Many ap...

VoiceofSanDiego.org: Deportations Stoke Community Panic in Linda Vista

By ADRIAN FLORIDO Indicators of the paranoia escape notice at first. But at the meat counter at Krist Market, a short walk from the Linda Vista apartment where Manuel Guzman was arrested and deported March 2, butcher Mike Jimenez's plummeting sales last week were as sure a sign as any that this community has withdrawn. On Friday, Jimenez signed for a delivery of just three 70-pound cases of beef. "I usually order eight boxes a week and sell them all," Jimenez said in Spanish from behind...

Origen de los mensajes de Redadas en Walmart/Origin of Walmart Raid Rumors

Special Note: To translate this article to English or any other language, use our LANGUAGES tool on the sidebar located on the right of our website. Click the "Select Language" button to open the pull-down menu and select the language of your choice. Walmart aclara rumor de redadas Corporación apoya la reforma migratoria Por Jorge Cancino, Univision.com* MIAMI - En un mensaje de dos párrafos publicado en su página de Internet y fechado el 9 de marzo, la corporación Walmart aseguró que "...

Walmart Raid Rumors: An Update

On behalf of the SDIRC Communications Coordinator: For the past two days, we have posted what little information we do know about the supposed Walmart raids, which is what we have seen published on behalf of Walmart stores, and from the San Diego office of the American Friends Service Committee.  We have asked for anyone who has been a witness to these raids to send us an email, submit a comment, or call us.  Normally, people have been contacting us through the website for personal immigratio...

Walmart Releases Statement on Immigration Raid Rumors / Walmart Hace Declaración Sobre Supuestas Redadas

From the SDIRC Communications Coordinator: Due to the messages that have been circulating regarding immigration raids at Walmart, the store released a statement yesterday in English and Spanish.  Our intent in providing some clarity on this issue is to avoid the spread of and the deepening of the fear that already exists within the immigrant communities, and we do not intend to speak for Walmart. If there are cases of immigration officials, be they Border Patrol or ICE, apprehending people i...