From the article:
[A] growing number of critics on both sides of the immigration issue... view the raids -- which have proven especially costly in terms of taxpayer dollars and human suffering -- as a political maneuver designed primarily to make the administration appear tough on enforcement...
"I believe that [ICE] conducts these raids in a way that people are purposefully unable to exercise their rights," says Laura Rotolo, an attorney with the ACLU of Massachusetts who interviewed some detainees at Fort Devens. "They transfer people across the country before they can speak to anybody, and then when they are given a bond hearing in Texas, asking to be released before trial, they must prove they are not a flight risk and that they have ties to the community. Of course they have no ties to the community in Texas."
Meanwhile, this compelling YouTube video has been circulating online. In it, a worker from the Michael Bianco factory in New Bedford gives a graphic firsthand account of the March raid by ICE agents and demeaning tactics used. It's in Spanish with English subtitles.
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