Show The Salt Lake Tribune NATION J11:)( s i i Yek 4414-MS 4 — ''' ‘ 6 I - r I "LW 4 ''S(01 1 — ik 2k 7 i‘ 3'2177"1"7:01-1- ZI1 ' 4 f — - i i i'l rfOr3 I 1 ) --11-3- : 1 4 s' IA ' 14 ' t llit1 e 1f9 FAe"-- " at 1 ' k 1 ' I f DiANA PadIÀ Cl'N'ejr--1—A- I 1M Mt A Pre31 na 1 L ) Raids create fear anger in Latinos - - i 1 - - 2 - j I Inland sweeps: Since June 1 the patrols have captured more than 420 alleged illegal immigrants with the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund "These sweeps have created a pervasive fear and even anger among Latinos regardless of their immigration status" While the Border Patrol has BY BEN Fox employed what it refers to as AND MICHELLE MORGANTE roving units in the past it had The Amodatal Prtm not used them recently said Mario Villarreal an agency ONTARIO Calif Elidia spokesman in Washington Celestina peered from behind a Villarreal would not say exwindow shade before opening actly why the Border Patrol has the' door a crack to a stranger If started the inland sweeps she leaves her apartment at all The Border Patrol has the lethese days it is only for a rushed gal authority to make arrests intrip to the store land but traditionally operates 'Everyone is afraid" said close to the border and it emCelestina 19 who came from ploys checkpoints instead of Mexico five months ago "We're roving patrols It is immigration like mice hiding in our homes" agents from a different agency She and many other illegal altogether who generally make immigrants in Southern Califorarrests inland nia have been gripped by fear The Mobile Patrol Group since a new Border Patrol unit consists of 12 agents based at a began roving through Hispanic station in Temecula about 55 communities and making armiles from the border The Terests well north of the border mecula team ranges across some beyond the agency's usual area 3000 square miles of operations Border Patrol officials said it :Since June 1 the unit has makes arrests only when it has captured more than 420 susinformation about the presence pected illegal immigrants They of illegal immigrants have been picked up on the "If you're here legally in the street pulled over while driving United States you really don't or caught coming out of stores in have anything to worry about" communities 100 miles or more said Raul Martinez a Border from the Mexican border Patrol spokesman The raids have spread such Nevertheless immigrant acfear that some people have tivists contend agents have viostopped going shopping or atlated people's rights by questending church Immigrant adtioning Hispanics without probvocates say some are staying able cause home from work too "In Southern California California is home to an estithere are many people who apmated 2 million illegal immipear to be of Mexican ancestry grants more than any other That does not mean they are state The border itself is pahere illegally" said Shnons trolled aggressively But for whose organization is consideryears illegal immigrants who ing a legal challenge reach the interior often at great Mexican President Vicente cost and danger have faced little Fox also has criticized the arrisk of arrest rests instructing his foreign "It does appear to be a shift in secretary this week to lodge "an tactics" said Shaheena Alunad energetic protest" with the US Simons a Los Angeles attorney government We -- L-- mE E A - ( A v g 1111111311Sti(13-:- Ii!illitDIN 0 Ell a '0 - rl 1110 10 t 1 - T (I 1' A '1 EIrj El nril 0: 0 P1 V E3 E E 0 ri 0 ElM:D 0 S':: L Clial Li A Lr-- A lit KI) to i an x ER BY JULIA MOSKIN The Nett York Timm An This morning Joe Kings of Portland Maine will be up at dawn to get the fire going Every year on the third Saturday in June Kings' barbecued ribs corn ana cpicy red beans draw httmdreds of Maine residents — most of them white — to his celTexas ebration of a holiday celebrated only by blacks: Juneteenth With events including a small rap contest in Anchorage Alaska and a huge festival of black heritage in Baltimore hundreds of thousands of Americans will celebrate Juneteenth or June 19 the day that slavery in the United States effectively ended With the arrival of an Army ship in Galveston on June 19 1865 Texas was the last state to learn that the Sduth had surrendered two months earlier More than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect on Jan 1 1863 the 250000 slaves in Texas were finally freed : Juneteenth began taking root across the country largely because of enthusiastic black "Texpats" like Kings a retired Army medical administrator who spent 11 years stationed at Fort Hood Texas After buying a car repair business in Portland he held a Juneteenth picnic the vlry first year With its lighthearted name and tragicomic origins June-ten-th appeals to many Americans by celebrating the end of slavery without dwelling on its legacy Juneteenth celebrators say is Martin Luther King Jr's birthday without the grieving : once-obscur- e i CO 'Y cultural African-America- n for Call I mum TABLE BERNHARDT I ACCELIT CEIAM ROUND WITH 4 CHAIRS NOW Sf13--7 ?i $3299 (A1146) ItiI SI31Q NOW $699 arts festival is taking place today and Sunday at the Ogden City Amphithe- ater R R DREXEL HERITAGE Juneteenth In Ogden 0 12 an Juneteenth celebrates the end of slavery in US CO Un tin TID I ED L'Sd 0 Nitli1lti - 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