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, [...]
Tags: · ACLU, Columbia, Greenville, ice, Immigration, immigration raid, Iowa, Laurel, Mississippi, Postville, Robert Menendez, South Carolina, Ted Kennedy
A four-year-old waits for word of his mother, arrested in an ICE raid. (AP Photo)
Raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement continue after a sweep netted more than 1,100 suspected illegal immigrants in California last month. On Tuesday, another 300 were arrested in a raid on a poultry processing plant in Greenville, S.C. (video). In a [...]
Tags: · California, Columbia, Connecticut, illegal immigrants, Immigration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, immigration raid, South Carolina
(Photo by Phil Taylor)Gaffney, South Carolina’s one-million gallon “Peachoid.”
Did you know Cherokee County, S.C., once produced more peaches than the entire state of Georgia? A million-gallon, peach-shaped water tower built along I-85 was my first hint while driving into Gaffney, where Duke Energy plans to build a 2,234 megawatt nuclear power plant.
Tags: · Broad River, Cherokee County, Cherokee County Chamber of Commerce, coal, Dominion, Duke Energy, Gaffney, Nuclear, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Power, South Carolina
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