Weekly Immigration News Round-Up, 9/20

When Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents raided a San Francisco home earlier this month, they arrested all of the adults and may have left a 15-year-old child to fend for herself. Now, San Francisco officials are expressing outrage over the situation.
England, which has its own immigration controversies, also has immigration raids, though not on the same scale as those in the U.S. The U.K.’s Border and Immigration Office raided a car wash and arrested six suspected illegal immigrants last week. In a subsequent raid, three Bangladeshi men were arrested at a restaurant.
The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund and the ACLU filed suit against Farmers Branch, Tex. last week, hoping to overturn its newest anti-immigration ordinance. This is the third such suit to be filed since the city announced that it would enact the new law. Meanwhile, Farmers Branch has spent nearly $1 million defending itself in court and will have to raid its reserve funds to pay this year’s bills.
Hurricane Ike may have disrupted the Congressional race in Sugar Land, Tex., where Democratic Rep. Nick Lampson faces a challenge from Republican Pete Olson. The damage in Sugar Land, where a large South Asian community has built up political power, was widespread but not devastating.

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