In lead-up to Trump crackdown, SPLC fired all its attorneys in its unit defending Illegals
(Maybe the denizens of the ‘Poverty Palace’ foresaw the elimination of all their grants and USAID money? They wouldn’t want to dig into all those hundreds of millions in offshore accounts. They have other uses for those – DD)
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Isabel Zelaya was beginning his shift at a beef slaughterhouse in rural Tennessee on a spring day in 2018 when agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement burst into the processing area and, with guns drawn, ordered him and others to toss their tools to the ground.
Zelaya, who was in his 60s at the time of the raid, explained that he had legal status to live and work in the US, but agents nonetheless zip-tied his hands and led him into a van, according to court records.
He and about 100 other Latino workers were shuttled to a nearby National Guard Armory for processing.
The operation, at the time the largest workplace immigration raid in at least a decade, sent a signal that then-President Donald Trump’s tough talk on illegal immigration would be matched by hard-nosed action.
The move triggered a swift response by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a civil-rights nonprofit with a long history of using the legal system to defend vulnerable groups.
Days after the raid, the Alabama-based organization dispatched a team of lawyers to the…
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