New Haven Independent

Posted by: Simon Moshenberg | October 15, 2007 2:33 PM

Paul, thanks for continuing to cover the "Danbury 11" case. Just wanted to clear up a few factual details:

-They're not actually in jail. We managed to bond them out in October 2006. So, insofar as the city of Danbury's strategy was to "get those pesky day-laborers off of the streets," it failed -- they're back in their homes, for the pendency of the legal case. (Also, for the record, we don't concede that they are or are not "immigrants" -- that's the government's burden of proof.)

-The California case was a preliminary injunction against the Department of Homeland Security's use of Social Security "no-match" letters as part of immigration enforcement, it wasn't about deportation and illegal arrests. However, our argument in the Danbury 11 case is that the arrests of September 19, 2006 were carried out in an illegal manner, and thus all deportation proceedings stemming from those arrests should be terminated.