NEW HAVEN – On June 7th 2007, Fair Haven, CT, had the air of Fallujah. It was one day after the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raided the town’s Latino enclave for the first time in nearly thirty years and rounded up thirty-two people. The streets were quiet. The local clinic was deserted, and many residents, afraid to leave home, lived on eggs and canned goods, and lurked by their windows.

DAWN had always arrived in Berlin’s Turm Strasse with the bustling of shopkeepers and the drowsy hiss of buses pulling into their stops. Always, except on the morning of April 10, 1997. On that day, the street had been cleared of traffic and blocked to anyone but pedestrians. On the rooftop of every building leading to Nos. 91-92, snipers had been stationed.