Nonprofits teaching immigrants how to handle ICE raids

Published July 30, 2011 4:00am ET



A nonprofit is using an Alexandria festival this Sunday to give Hispanics a crash course in immigration enforcement law. Tenants and Workers United plans to turn off the music at the Arlandria Chrilagua festival for 10 minutes to teach residents about search warrants, the right to a lawyer and what they can do when an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shows up at the door. The lesson was planned after an ICE raid shocked the community.

ICE officials arrested Herlin Flores, 31, and Erick Carbajal, 21 — both natives of Honduras — outside Lillian’s restaurant in the Arlandria neighborhood July 14.

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