Posted on: December 14th, 2006
Filed Under: [ Immigration ] [ Tomás' Picks ]
Tags: activist, attorney, deportation, Raids
“The coordinated raids Tuesday on Swift & Co. packing plants in Worthington, Minn. and five other cities around the country highlight the inherent complications of immigration reform.In each case, large numbers of federal officers led by Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrived at the plant early in the morning and cordoned it off. In Worthington, they detained some 230 workers on the morning shift and removed them on buses.
ICE said that the purpose of the raid was to break up an identity-theft scheme but that anyone without legal status would be processed for deportation. Local government officials expressed concern about how the raid would affect community residents and the local economy. Immigration attorneys and activists described how some families were broken up and how some citizens or legal residents had been swept up in the raid.”
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