I wrote in an earlier post about Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) detaining, deporting, and even raiding the homes of American citizens. Well, it doesn't end there. Most undocumented immigrants have their own story about their rights being violated by ICE, or some rumor about someone else suffering the same.

People have been saying for a long time that ICE employs...unconventional methods for getting its way, from breaking into people's homes without warrants, coercion, and force, to, now, "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." --Washington Post.

"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," 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. "Workers are not aware that they could be detained at gunpoint. That they could be handcuffed. . . . That they could be denied any contact with family members or legal counsel."

The commission heard testimony from two workers who are U.S. citizens who said they were detained for several hours during an ICE raid of six Swift meatpacking plants in December 2006. The union has filed a class action on their behalf.