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Lugo Details Protest Shove

by Melissa Bailey | April 12, 2008 5:00 AM
Posted to General News

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Explaining to a state panel why immigrant activists are “scared” to release personal information, John Jairo Lugo (pictured) told how opponents of New Haven’s immigrant-friendly municipal ID card pushed a woman with a baby at a protest and came to his house to watch him.

“The people they feel threatened; they feel intimidated,” Lugo said of the members of his immigrant advocacy group, Unidad Latina in Acción. At a hearing Friday before the state Freedom of Information Commission (FOIC), Lugo told how his group has been followed, harassed and insulted by anti-immigrant watchdogs.

Click here to continue reading Melissa’s report.

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