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Activist blasts immigration policy in Danbury speech

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May 5, 2008

DANBURY, Conn.—Civil rights activist Rev. Al Sharpton has told a Danbury church congregation that the immigration policy in the city is unfair.

Sharpton is criticizing the way Danbury officials have handled the illegal immigration issue. Nine men who were nabbed after an undercover officer offered laborers work are being deported. Sharpton says he doesn't lie to people and then deport them.

Sharpton was the guest speaker Sunday at New Hope Baptist Church and told the group that he plans to get arrested in New York on Wednesday.

He says the action is s part of a civil disobedience demonstration to protest the verdict acquitting three police officers in the shooting of a man.

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