Midstate workers face deportation in Tennessee

“The news this week of arrests of more than 1,100 workers at plants in 26 states at the largest pallet manufacturing company in the U.S., about 100 of them in Tennessee, sent shock waves through the local Hispanic community.

“It’s scared people,” said Terry Horgan, a Latino services coordinator for Catholic Charities at the Woodbine Community Organization. “It’s rekindled fear.”

People are calling and asking if immigration officials are targeting everyone, he said.”

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