Election 2008: What’s At Stake?

A raid on a San Diego restaurant in May. (AP Photo)

Over the course of this blog, News 21 readers have learned about Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid in Postville, Iowa, Laurel, Miss. and Greenville, S.C. Each of these raids led to the detention of hundreds of immigrants, the disruption of communities and widespread outcry. Now, [...]

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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 raid [...]

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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 [...]

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In Laurel, Miss., where 595 suspected illegal immigrants were arrested in an ICE raid on a Howard Industries plant earlier this month, the fall-out has yet to settle. The ACLU is investigating charges that workers were segregated by ethnicity and arrested immigrants denied counsel. Locally, the families of arrested immigrants are living in uncertainty, while [...]

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The Washington Post looks at how Shenandoah, Pa., is coping with the aftermath of Mexican immigrant Luis Ramirez’ murder. Ramirez was beaten to death by a group of white teenagers in June.

State Rep. Russell Pearce won the Republican primary for the Arizona state Senate. Pearce is a fierce anti-immigration hardliner, and he has been accused [...]

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U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement detained 595 suspected illegal immigrants after a raid at a Mississippi electrical parts plant on Monday. The raid targeted Howard Industries, one of the largest employers in Laurel, Miss., a city of about 18,000. Eight of the immigrants are facing federal charges of using stolen social security numbers, according the [...]

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At a 2006 campaign event in Columbia, South Carolina, then-GOP presidential contender Rep. Tom Tancredo joined the members of the League of the South or a chorus of “Dixie.” These members of the neo-confederate organization considered a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center had come decked out in full confederate regalia to hear [...]

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