UFW and other groups plan marches- Decry Racial Profiling Immigration Raids
Afraid of being deported, hundreds of undocumented immigrants in Monterey County have kept a low profile during the past two weeks amid rumors that federal Border Patrol agents have conducted enforcement sweeps on the Central Coast. But Salinas-area immigrant rights groups want those immigrants to let their voices be heard. Today, the United Farm Workers and other unions plan to begin a sequence of five marches from King City to Salinas to protest federal Border Patrol raids earlier this month in Southern California and to call for changes in U.S. immigration laws. [more]