I am still amazed when I see that teh ACLU is again coming to the defense of someone who is ILLEGALLY in this country. People wonder why we have the deficit that we do. It woudl be one issue if these people were here with legal documentation, but come on....GIVE ME A BREAK. They are illegal...not here legally....it's against the law...they are breaking the law...Can you read this ACLU? If you are going to go to someone's defense...make it someone who has a leg to stand on....The problem with the ACLU, they only seem to want to get in the ring when the people they are defending....are ILLEGAL. That's the only business they can get because everyone else has LEGAL RIGHTS under the law...

In what twisted universe is death more appealing than deportation or, since he seemed to NOT get caught, just running?

And why is it ICE's fault that this illegal killed himself? Maybe he'd still be alive today if he hadn't chosen to flout our nation's laws and invade our country.

Darned if you do and darned if you don't. ICE just cannot win with these people. So now they're responsible for someone's decision to end their life because of their previous decisions (entering out country illegally and having to live under the radar). Sheesh....enough already, seriously, just stop.

The ACLU in RI is becoming more of an embarassment on a daily basis. These people are here ILLEGALLY, they knew the risks they were taking, the father had benn told to leave the country back in August and did not - send him back and be done with this matter as he has broken the law twice that we know of. As far as the suicide, there is no way you can blame this on ICE (although the walking idiot Steven Brown will try to and be embarassed in the courts again). ICE did not force this man to come to the US illegally - if he killed himself then the blood is on his own hands and no one elses. He should have been a man and faced up to what he had done wrong.

What if instead the story had been that the ICE agents had broken down the door and were attacked by some guy trying to committ suicide by cop? The ACLU would be defending the rights of the guy in the room because the agents entered illegally. They'd be suing the government for violating his 4th amendment rights. The community leader and the ACLU should get their stories straight before they make statements. Do you want ICE searching every room or not? If anyone's to blame for the guy's death it's the people that brought ICE to the door...the guy hiding from ICE and his wife who was aiding and abetting. Maybe the guy that killed himself is the real father of the child and was upset that Mynor was in the news. Let's wait and see. DNA test?

I think that Steven Brown has been doing a great job at the RI ACLU. The fact that this country HAS civil liberties, and that the ACLU CAN EXIST to defend them, is the reason WHY people are constantly sneaking into this country. Once we lose those liberties (and don't think that day couldn't come), people will be trying to sneak OUT.
That said, illegal immigrants deserve to get the boot, but as a born-in-the-wool Rhode Islander, I'm glad that ol' Steve is there to monitor that they get booted fairly and squarely.