Though the country’s attention has been focused on an ongoing financial crisis, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids are continuing, and there have been developments in the aftermath of past raids. News 21 gets you up to speed: “Fear. Stress. Isolation,” says the Hattiesburg American, listing themes in the lives of detainees’ families after the [...]
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Small Towns Worry about Immigration Raids
September 16, 2008 – 7:03 am
In the wake of recent immigration raids in Iowa and Mississippi, small towns across the country are worried they could be next. The Kansas City Star reports on one such community. Milan, Mo. is home to a Farmland Foods pork packing plant that—like meatpacking businesses across the country—employs hundreds of Latino immigrants. Though Farmland says [...]
