Multimillionaire Calls for a “New” ICE

We previously reported about Robert Hildreth, a self-made multimillionaire who built his fortune trading in Latin American bonds, posted bail out of his own pocket after seeing what he considered to be “un-American” images on TV of shackled workers being deported after immigration raids in New Bedford Massachusetts.  Hildreth called the Greater Boston Legal Services and told them to contact him if they needed help posting bonds for undocumented workers.  He also helped establish the National Immigrant Bond Fund to help immigrants bond out of detention.

Hildreth in an op/ed in the Houston Chronicle writes in “ICE wasting time, money in sweeps of workplaces” that “I have spent the past year chasing Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) around the country. Every time ICE raided a factory to arrest undocumented workers, the National Immigrant Bond Fund I represent showed up to bail them out so that they could get their day in court. The cat-and-mouse game taught me a lot about ICE, lessons that Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano, the nominee to head Homeland Security, which includes ICE, should consider as she takes responsibility for our immigration laws.” Click the link above and read on.

Hildreth has been nominated as Bostonian of the Year.

For additional commentary along the lines outlined by Hildreth, click here.