AFLA is on witch hunt

The extent of the immigrant bashing in Elgin is disturbing and, frankly, bizarre.

I think that recent events have proven that the Association for Legal Americans, a spiritual sister group of the Minutemen Midwest Alliance, an undocumented immigrant hate group, should not be fueling policy in this heavily Latino city that recently saw its only Latino councilman Juan Figueroa disposed of.

In a Sept. 21 Daily Herald article, we read that the Association for Legal Americans claimed they had "reliable information" that undocumented workers were being used. But, according to the story, the city then did a full-blown audit of the temp agency and did not turn up any undocumented workers.

Even though their information was wrong, they feel there should be more audits - a witch hunt of an even great scale should be launched.

I wonder what mystical hold the two guys in AFLA, Doug Heaton and David White, have over Councilman John Prigge and other elected officials in Elgin, a city of close to 110,000 people - close to half of whom are Latino? What information did AFLA present to city officials in their complaints to spur this audit? Is it because workers "looked" foreign and were Latino, that AFLA's suspicions were fueled?

Now Elgin Corporation Counsel William Cogley, no doubt under pressure from the AFLA duo, will seek to conduct further audits and further investigations bringing in third parties, new firms to the frenzied search for undocumented workers.

Such blatantly racist-driven policy must come to an end.

Cristobal Cavazos

Director

Immigrant Solidarity DuPage

Wheaton