Red Cross Evicting Latino Katrina Victims?

Some rights groups are reporting discrimination and intimidation against Latinos in Red Cross shelters. Immigrants rights worker Victoria Cintra and her husband, who were displaced from their Mississippi home by Hurricane Katrina claims that immigrants are being victimized by the Red Cross. Cintra, who works for the Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance says she has witnessed the ejection of Latinos, under threat of deportation, from two Mississippi Red Cross shelters. She estimates that 50 to 60 Latinos left one shelter in West Harrison County and another 40 had to leave the Red Cross shelter in one site outside of Biloxi.

Source: Elena Shore, Pacific News Service, Oct. 19, 2005