HatCityBLOG FLASHBACK: Closed for business

In honor of Mayor Boughton's dishonest quote in Saturday's AP article where he laughably suggests that there hasn't been a noticeable decline in immigrants leaving the city AND those who left, took off mainly because of the economy (as opposed to his anti-immigrant policies), here's a flashback post I did on Feb 5 2008 when anger towards Boughton from the immigrant business community was at it's highest.

Members of the immigrant business community speak out against ICE ACCESS
and misinformation from anti-immigrant groups
Michael's One Stop, Main Street. Photo by CTblogger, 02.04.08.

What a sight to see...

As the level of anti-immigrant/xenophobe paranoia from City Hall increases, and the anger in the immgrant community towards city leaders mounts, up and down Main Street, White Street and throughout Danbury, stores are closing up shop in a show of opposition towards Mark Boughton's ICE ACCESS proposal.

Everywhere you go, pink signs litter the windows expressing their support for immigrants and their disapproval of the demonizing of their community by anti-immigrant hate groups, bigots, and plain racists who've infested the minds of those at City Hall.

On Monday, a group of like-minded business owners formed a coalition called Danbury Businesses for a Better Community Coalition and held a press conference where they spoke out against the proposal formal partnership between Danbury and ICE.



The commercial from the Danbury Businesses for a Better Community Coalition is below:

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