{"id":4920,"date":"2008-02-26T17:10:27","date_gmt":"2008-02-26T23:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/impeach_bush_blog\/?p=4920"},"modified":"2017-05-21T15:11:55","modified_gmt":"2017-05-21T21:11:55","slug":"us-immigration-officials-accused-of-violating-workforces-constitutional-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/2008\/02\/us-immigration-officials-accused-of-violating-workforces-constitutional-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"US Immigration Officials Accused of Violating Workforce&#8217;s Constitutional Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"imagelink\"  href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120429205917\/http:\/\/projects.washingtonpost.com:80\/staff\/email\/n.c.%2Baizenman\/\">N.C. Aizenman<\/a>, Washington Post<\/p>\n<p>A privately convened commission of labor and immigrant advocates held the first of several planned nationwide hearings yesterday to publicize allegations that U.S. immigration officials routinely violate constitutional protections against unreasonable search and seizure during workplace raids.<\/p>\n<div id=\"body_after_content_column\">At the gathering at the Hay-Adams hotel in the District, witnesses and members of the 10-person panel accused Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials of using arrest warrants for a limited number of illegal immigrants who work at a given company as a pretext to detain the entire workforce, including many U.S. citizens, while agents determine whether there are additional illegal immigrants among them.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tens of millions of workers in America go to work every day without . . . an awareness that at their workplaces, without any warning, they could be swept up in a massive raid conducted by heavily armed government agents,&#8221; said Joe Hansen, president of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union and chairman of the National Commission on ICE Misconduct and Violations of 4th Amendment Rights. &#8220;Workers are not aware that they could be detained at gunpoint. 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