Frederick (Md.) News-Post -- November 13, 2009      Sheriff to respond to ethnic-hustlers' lawsuit    Frederick County Sheriff Chuck Jenkins will hold a press conference today to address questions about a lawsuit filed by a woman who alleges her civil rights were violated when deputies arrested her on suspicion of an immigration violation... [See CASA Watch]

WJZ-TV -- Baltimore -- November 12, 2009     Ethnic-hustling PRLDEF and CASA de Maryland sue Frederick County    Two civil rights groups have filed a federal lawsuit alleging immigration enforcement violations by the Frederick County (Md.) Sheriff's Office. -- New York-based LatinoJustice PRLDEF and the state organization Casa de Maryland filed the complaint Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt...

Frederick (Md.) News -- November 9, 2009     Ethnic-hustlers to sue Frederick County Sheriff Office for racial profiling    ...Lawyers with LatinoJustice PRLDEF, CASA de Maryland and Nixon Peabody LLP will file the suit in the U.S. District Court at Greenbelt on Tuesday... -- The complaint will allege that Roxana Orellana was eating lunch outdoors Oct. 7, 2008, on her break when two Frederick County Sheriff's Office deputies approached and began interrogating her about her immigration status...

Washington Post -- October 28, 2009     BofA grants go to vehement Reconquista fanatics in Maryland    ...Two $200,000 grants will go to CASA de Maryland, a group helping low-income Latino communities with such services as education and job training, and Manna Inc., which works to provide affordable housing and help tenants collaborate to purchase or renovate buildings...

Washington Post -- October 6, 2009      Senate confirms DoJ Civil Rights nominee, 'Tan Klan' lawyer elated   The Senate voted Tuesday afternoon to confirm President Obama's nominee to lead the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division. -- Thomas Perez, a former Maryland politician and civil rights lawyer, was named Assistant Attorney General and head of the Civil Rights Division... [This guy was on the board of the pro-invader 'CASA de Maryland']

CASA de Maryland -- August 12, 2009       Baltimore pushes Washington to reward foreign scofflaws    Delay may be business as usual in Washington, but Baltimore isn't having it. -- Yesterday evening, amidst news that President Obama now sees immigration reform delayed until 2010, the Baltimore City Council passed a resolution... calling on President Obama and Congress to act swiftly to pass real, comprehensive immigration reform. [See Amnesty Watch]

Dave Foutz -- VDare.com --  July 26, 2009     A setback for subversive Casa de Maryland    Anne Arundel County Executive John Leopold who instituted 287 (g) last year has witnessed the numbers of foreign-born inmates referred to federal authorities (and thereby be put on the path to deportation) increase three to four times in barely more than a year...

Business Gazette -- Gaithersburg, Md.  --  July 8, 2009    MVA taking heat over pulled licenses    Maryland's Motor Vehicle Administration is under fire from civil and [illegal alien] rights groups that say the agency revoked the licenses or identification cards of about 150 people without notice or due process. -- The MVA did cancel the licenses, spokeswoman Caryn Coyle confirmed Thursday... [See ACLU watch] [See CASA Watch]

Los Angeles Times -- April 5, 2009   Obama's civil rights nominee should be ready for a fight    ...Immigration is a minor responsibility for the division's lawyers, but the topic is likely to be a focus in the confirmation of Perez, a Dominican American. For seven years, he was a director of CASA of Maryland, an [anti-American, pro-invasion] group, and served as its president in 2002....

NewsMax.com -- March 23, 2009  Obama curtails successful drug interdiction program    ..."CASA de Maryland [a group with known affinities to the FMLN] is run by people who belonged to a guerilla group that targeted American Marines and soldiers and a U.S. Navy commander for assassination for political purposes," Waller told Newsmax... [See Obama Watch]

Baltimore Sun -- March 18, 2009                        DoJ nominee also worked for pro-invasion National Immigration Forum   ...[Thomas] Perez appears to have achieved little, if any, public prominence on hot-button immigration issues, despite his involvement with CASA de Maryland on whose board he served from 1995 to 2002, including as president. He also was on the board of the National Immigration Forum for just over a year...

Latin American Herald Tribune -- Caracas,Venezuela -- March 18, 2009 Ethnic hustlers claim immigration agents pressured to bust illegals     ...CASA de Maryland presented an internal DHS report written after the raids that shows that there were contradictions among the sworn statements given by the agents. -- "First they said that they went to buy something because they were hungry and the [illegal aliens] came up to them and said they were looking for work..."

Tyche Hendricks -- San Francisco Chronicle -- March 18, 2009  Obama switch on civil rights post leaves Latinos fuming    When Obama named Maryland Secretary of Labor [and former CASA lackey] Tom Perez as his nominee for Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division at the U.S. DoJ, Friday, some Latino leaders cheered. The National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials called Perez "exceptionally qualified." [Some are miffed that MALDEF menace Thomas Saenz didn't get the job.]

Mark Krikorian -- Center for Immigration Studies -- March 16, 2009     MALDEF won't be running civil rights after all... CASA de Maryland will    I'd alluded earlier to reports that Thomas Saenz, MALDEF's former top attorney, had been tapped to head the Civil Rights Division at the Justice Department. Apparently, that was true, and he'd accepted the job, but then the White House threw him under the bus "because of Tom's work on immigration rights," in the words of LA County supervisor Gloria Molina...