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Show All D A10 1 Sunday, hUnh HEUID Y 1008 efforts stymie neighborhood immigration raids Grass-root- s Michael Martinei il- Ri:sr.UA, Calif. -- When federal immigration officers visited over three days last October looking for an illegal Salvadoran' immigrant, a neighborhood watch kicked into action each time. Dozens of immigrants, legal and illegal, phoned one another, warning of a raid. "I called tny sister in the building next door and another sister in this building," said :. live in fear and ignorance of the law. but an ulterior goal is to sty mie agents' manhunts and thwart "collateral" arrests illegal imwho are accidentally migrants discovered in a questioning for someone else who has abscond' ed from a deportation order. Immigrants and advocates nized, they didn't take anyone away," she said, As the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency beefs up home-vising teams seeking illegal immigrants, doubling arrests in each of the past two years, Maria, who said she is an legal immigrant from Mexico and has two children who are U.S. born citizens. She asked that her full name not be used. "They came and knocked on doors.but no one answered." Angelita Pascacio, an organizer of the Madres Contra door-to-do- -- it migrants and advocates are initiating count ermeasures to make legal and illegal immigrants aware of tactics such as not answering their door or remaining silent efforts try The grass-root- s to help many immigrants who Redadas (Mothers Against Raids) who has since moved from the apartment building, described the surveillance by immigrants as clumsy at first, but effective. "Thanks to our being orga it say they are trying to save families from being cleaved when an illegal immigrant parent is caught and removed from the U.S., leaving behind children or a spouse who are . "Know vour richts" and cards; holding classes in churches; operating hot lines on enforcement actions; and, in one California case, following ICE officers from their office to a community to advise imm- legal residents or citizens. Both sides claim success. While one Mothers Against Raids group in the Los Artgcles. area boasted of its effectiveness, federal officials say their arrests finally have reduced the population of "fugitive," immor deportation-fleeinsince time first the for igrants ICE was created in 2003, In addition to block watches igrants to reveal nothing more than their names. activities These street-levhave increased in the past year because Congress has been unable to pass significant imand migration legislation apparently won't do so again this year because of the presidential election, experts say. "When that crashed and burned, I think many communities throughout .the country began to focus their attention more on protecting the limited rights that immigrants do and telephone trees, neighbors and activists are videotaping to hold ofICE's "fugitive-opsficers accountable; distributing " have," said Peter Schey, president of the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law, a legal foundation for immigrants. 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