Community rallies for immigrant rights

Emma Lozano, Saulito’s guardian and executive director of Centro Sin Fronteras (Center Without Borders), charged that the boy’s mother had been forced to migrate to the U.S. illegally because of U.S. trade policies.

Referring to the thousands of Mexican farmers driven off their land by hard times, she said, “No one wants to talk about why they leave. The Arellano family were corn farmers and because of the free trade agreement, the U.S. flooded Mexico with cheap corn.”

Lozano called for CNN to “fire Lou Dobbs,” whose nightly broadcasts whip up a “hate campaign against immigrants.”

“If they come for Mexicanos now, they will come for you next,” she warned.

Stanley Miller, director of the Cleveland NAACP, said the raids reminded him of the actions of slave catchers in the 19th century.