The great Danbury shakedown.

[wetibbe]

Friends:

Some know and some may not.

Four years ago ICE set up a sting in Kennedy Park, Danbury to apprehend day laborers in response to complaints about traffic problems. A Danbury PD undercover officer drove a van to the location and picked up 11 day laborers who were driven to a parking lot not far away and apprehended by ICE.

Yale Law school students represented the defendants aided and backed by components of the school/ and attorney firms working pro-bono. The case has come to trial now and the City of Danbury's insurance company settled, pre-trial, for $400,000 to get rid of the nuisance. The city had a $100,000 deductible and the Federal Government agreed to $250,000. According to media reports the Yale kids ran up a legal bill of $5.9 million but since the work was pro-bono the illegal aliens won't have to pay. Eight of the eleven chose to pursue the law suit. Three apparently dropped out. The defendants, all Ecuadorian illegals, will each pocket $70,000. Both sides are claiming victory. But the case never came to trial as it was settled with the Yalies agreeing to take the money on behalf of the defendants.

Yale Law school is becoming a Madrass breeding ground for corruption, training the youth to be leftist, liberal, progressives that are pervasive in our increasingly unfair and ludicrous judicial system. Federal Customs and Immigration laws provide for a $5,000 Customs fine for entering the country at other than a designated entry point, fines doubling with a second offense. And additional Immigration fines. But we never see these imposed or collected. Deportation orders have been issued to the Ecuadorians.

Hopefully this repulsive issue will stimulate our Connecticut patriot groups to support the City of Danbury, it's police and ICE. And sound the call for more enhanced workplace enforcement.

Who actually won ? "According to the Judicial doctrine of clean hands: "He who seeks equity must come with clean hands". In other parts of the country Judges would not allow illegal alien to come into the courtroom. And in some cases ICE came into the court and apprehended illegal alien spectators.


Bill Tibbe


Connecticut's "Danbury 11" Day Laborers Receive $650,000 Record Settlement

Published March 10, 2011

| Fox News Latino



AP2010

Both sides are claiming victory in the $650,000 settlement of a lawsuit brought by a group of day laborers who charged their September 2006 arrests in Danbury, Conn. were unlawful and based on racial profiling.

According to Yale Law School’s Worker & Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic, which helped represent the men pro bono and issued a press release about the settlement, “This is the largest monetary settlement ever paid out to day laborers by any municipality in the country.”

“I have no idea what the basis for that assertion is,” said Dan Casagrande, the lead trial counsel representing the city of Danbury and its mayor. “The city’s insurance carrier made a decision to settle the case for nuisance value. Would we have liked to go forward and try the case and win it, absolutely.”

The events that sparked the lawsuit are not in dispute: On September 19, 2006, eleven men—soon to be known as “The Danbury 11”—were picked up near a local park by a police officer posing as a contractor. Offered work, the men got into his van, and he drove them a few blocks away to a bank parking lot, where they were turned over to federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.

Yale Law School became involved when, said Helen O’Reilly, a law student intern on the case, “members of the community called [professor] Mike Wishnie, asking him to help locate the men,” who were being held at an immigration detention facility.




Eight of those arrested later filed a suit claiming that their arrests were motivated by racial profiling policies put in place by now five-term Republican mayor Mark Boughton, and that local police had no jurisdiction to enforce federal immigration policy.

The suit named the mayor, the city, individual police officers, federal immigration agents, and the United States. The men were represented by the Yale Clinic and the law firm of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, which also worked pro bono.

As part of the settlement announced today, the Danbury defendants have agreed to pay $400,000, and the United States will pay $250,000, in exchange for a release of all claims.

Casagrande says that the fact that the settlement involved no change of policy for the police or the city shows, “the plaintiffs have not proven their case.”

O’Reilly says the Clinic relied on the experience of Wishnie, Chris Newman from National Day Laborer Organizing Network, and LatinoJustice/ PRLDEF to determine that theirs was a record-breaking settlement.

"Almost all cases I'm familiar with, the plaintiffs received only injunctive relief and attorneys' fees," Newman, general counsel and legal director for the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, told the Danbury News-Times. "What's extraordinary in this case is that the day laborers themselves are receiving a monetary award."

O’Reilly says that the men, who range in age from late 20s to late 40s, were in Hartford Federal District Court to accept the settlement offer on February 25.

“Ultimately, I think they felt respected, proud, and happy that their voices had been taken seriously,” she said.

The Danbury settlement occurs two weeks before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals is scheduled to review a Los Angeles Federal District Court decision upholding an anti-day labor solicitation ordinance.

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[Jeanfromfillmore]

What does much of our immigration problems most often have in common? Answer: Our schools and universities.


Every day those indoctrinated students are entering our work force and registering to vote. This problem is huge because these students believe with all their hearts that they are on the righteous "intellectual and enlightened" side. Just think of Hitlers Brown Shirts, the young that would give their lives because Hitler was the all and knowing.