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Arkansas Immigration Raid Reaches Beyond Workers. Immigration agents in Arkansas were still at the plant as neighbors spoke out. It’s not justice served, they said, it’s a community disrupted.

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Posted on: July 23rd, 2006
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“The immigration agents arrived at the Petit Jean Poultry plant just before the 7:30 breakfast break, armed and dressed in khaki uniforms. They went straight to the room where more than 100 Mexican workers in tan smocks were cutting up chicken, then shouted in Spanish for everyone to freeze.

Some workers started crying. A few made quick cellphone calls, alerting relatives to care for who would soon be left behind. The plant manager watched as 119 workers ”” half his day-shift crew ”” were bound with plastic handcuffs and taken to a center, from which most would be deported to .

Immigration officials said they were cracking down on document fraud and illegal hiring. But what happened after the raid last July came as a surprise to many people in this conservative Bible Belt region: Instead of feeling reassured that immigration laws were being enforced, many felt that their community had been disrupted.”

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