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09/27/2007: "2,000 protest Irving police deportation program"

About 2,000 people demonstrated outside Irving City Hall on Wednesday night to demand an end to a police program that's led to a high number of deportations.

Irving started participating in the nationwide program last year. It allows jailers to identify suspected illegal immigrants and refer them to immigration authorities, but the Mexican Consulate and immigration advocates say police are being overzealous while patrolling and trying to stop Latinos in order to arrest them.

[ If we wanted to live in Mexico, we would have moved. Mexican immigration profits a select few, and abuses the rest, American and Mexican alike. ]

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/5168016.html