Wednesdays Immigration Raid Having Impact On Local Businesses in Charleston, South Carolina

“Wednesday’s national raid on illegal immigrants,which included 22 illegals at the IFCO Pallet Management Systems plant in Walterboro, is having a major impact on businesses in the Lowcountry. Many company owners say their illegal immigrant workers have not shown up since that raid, afraid they will also be targets of a raid. As a result, many Lowcountry businesses are working with skeletal crews, or no crews at all.

Drive threw I’on, the rapidly developing subdivision in Mt. Pleasant, and you’ll notice an usual lack of activity. Normally bustling with hispanic workers building new homes, over the last two days they are much harder to find. “

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