Hispanic community rocked by plant raid - Chattanooga, Tennessee last Wednesday

Anxious phone calls poured in early Wednesday morning.

Friends and relatives of the morning-shift workers at Pilgrim’s Pride chicken plants called Esteban and Netchie Lopez, co-owners of the Latin American Consulting Co., even before the immigration sweep started at 8:15 a.m.

“There are many families that already knew that at any moment there would be raids,” Mr. Lopez said in Spanish.

Tension and fear burned through Chattanooga’s immigrant community Wednesday after federal agents arrested more than 100 people at the downtown Pilgrim’s Pride plants. One second-shift worker at the company, worried that his aunt was caught in the raid, called about his three young cousins, Mr. Lopez said.”*

*From: http://timesfreepress.com
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