Immigration Raids Ripping Families Apart Here

Tweet Makes you so proud doesn't it? Right before 4th of July? Whole story here (portion below): http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003772316_iceraid03m.html

"Reyes-Velasquez was the Seattle team's second target that day.

"Outside her second-story apartment, officers knocked, identifying themselves as "police" and rousing her 20-year-old son, Carlos Quiroz, who'd been sleeping on a mattress on the other side of the door.

"Because he thought they were local police and not immigration officers, he said, he opened the door, and for his mother, "the life that I have came to a stop."

"In the living room, officers gathered the six adults and four children from throughout the apartment to sort out their immigration status.

"Reyes-Velasquez' 13-year-old daughter was distraught: "You're taking our mother away!" she cried.

"Neil Clark, Seattle-based field director for detention and removal operations, explained to the child, who was born in the United States, that she could go to Mexico with her mother if Reyes-Velasquez is deported.

"But the child was inconsolable: "I don't want to go to Mexico. I want my mom here."

"The girl and her 4-year-old sister stayed with two adults in the home who are U.S. citizens.

"Reyes-Velasquez was arrested. From an open window, her daughters watched as she was led in handcuffs to a waiting SUV.

"Her son, boyfriend and brother-in-law, all illegal immigrants who were in the home at the time, were also taken into custody — "collaterals," as the officers sometimes call them.