Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

March 31, 2009

Ernesto Guillen stopped for coffee at a 7-Eleven convenience store in Baltimore on his way to Johns Hopkins Hospital to visit his 4-year-old son, who was being treated for leukemia. He found himself among more than a dozen other men who were arrested solely because they were Latinos.

The January 2007 raid on the 7-Eleven was conducted by a unit of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement?s Fugitive Operations Program. The unit had fallen behind in its mandatory quota of arrests. Under orders to ?bring more bodies in,? the unit simply arrested every working-age male who fit the ethnic profile.

Several of those arrested were in the country illegally. Most of them, however, were not. Guillen spent three nights in jail before his release. Another was wrongfully incarcerated for nearly three weeks.

Outrages of this kind are common where law enforcement is carried out according to quotas.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free