Immigration officials are now targeting legal U.S. residents

By CYDNEY GILLIS, Staff Reporter REAL CHANGE NEWS

Gena Mejia chose to buy a house in Monroe because it was a beautiful town and it had so many churches. Little did she know the lack of Christian charity that her next-door neighbors would show to a Mexican couple.   She and her husband, Francesco, had been legal U.S. residents for 30 years when they moved from the Eastside to Monroe in 2004. But trouble with the husband of the white couple next door started almost immediately.   In the past three years, Mejia says, the man has come at her husband with a crowbar, spit in his face, and spewed racial epithets.  She got a restraining order but says Monroe police never enforced it.   Then in August 2005, the day after she filed for a new protection order, she says armed immigration agents showed up on her doorstep demanding to know where her son was. STORY HERE