I don’t doubt that this woman working for Junta for Progressive Action received a threatening email. There are people on our side of the issue that have done some stupid things. However, the threats and acts of violence against Americans by illegal aliens and their supporters pales in comparison. Read some of my hate mail.

Yale Daily News

Community Services Administrator Kica Matos presented a death threat she received as evidence of the danger of a forced disclosure, by the city of New Haven to the public, of the identities of residents who have obtained Elm City Resident Cards at last Friday?s Freedom of Information Commission hearing on the matter.

Matos, who helped design the ID card program, testified about the many violent and racist e-mails she received after the program?s implementation, including a death threat that police officers turned over to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The affidavit she filed before the commission in December 2007 notes that, if the city is forced to disclose identities, other individuals could be targeted as she has been. Meanwhile, an expert witness for the plaintiffs argued there is no evidence the ID cards would be an effective public-safety tool.

Dustin Gold, founder of the anti-illegal immigration Community Watchdog Project, and Chris Powell, managing editor of the Meriden Journal Inquirer, have sought to force the city to release the names and addresses of the more than 5,500 New Haven residents who have ID cards. Last fall, Powell said he was aware that the disclosure could force the city to cancel the program.

In response to the request, the city has argued that releasing this information would put undocumented immigrants, who have the card, at risk of harassment or violent attack.

Speaking at Friday?s hearing, Matos said, for a period after she received a death threat in July 2007, she was afraid to be alone outside and, even now, she will not use the City Hall garage on weekends because there are no security guards, the New Haven Register reported Saturday.

?Your commit treason by promoting an enemy invasion,? the e-mail threat stated, according to her affidavit. ?You need to be taken by the United States citizens and killed as the enemy to this nation that you are.?

Commissioner Sherman London noted the seriousness of the letter.

?That?s a death threat,? the London said to the Register.

Matos said she found out about the letter after police informed her that her former workplace, , had received the e-mail.

The e-mail was one of many angry attacks Matos received. Many other attacks included in the affidavit, in addition to targeting Matos, threatened illegal immigrants in general.

?[I]llegals should and will be put to death,? another e-mail cited in her affidavit reads.

Matos stated in her affidavit that disclosure of the names, addresses and photographs of individuals who obtained the ID card would put them in danger from the same types of people who sent threats to her and other city officials.

While working at JUNTA, Matos co-wrote the ID card program proposal as part of a report entitled ?A City to Model,? which put forth ways of improving public safety and the relationship between the city and immigrant communities.

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