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Weekly Immigration News Round-Up, 9/27: Raids Update

September 27, 2008 – 12:48 pm

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 [...]

By Amy Crawford | Posted in Immigration: New Voters, Old Fears | Also tagged California, Chicago, Hawaii, illegal immigrants, Immigration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, immigration raids, Iowa, Laurel, Mississippi, Mississippi Immigrants' Rights Alliance, Postville | Comments

Weekly Immigration News Round-Up, 9/13

September 13, 2008 – 12:35 pm

More than 50 people were arrested by ICE during a raid at a Southern California bakery. Authorities are saying that company supervisors extorted money from the undocumented workers in return for guaranteeing them jobs. Sixty-five people were arrested in an immigration raid on a candle-making plant in Arizona, carried out by Maricopa County Sheriff Joe [...]

By Amy Crawford | Posted in Immigration: New Voters, Old Fears | Also tagged Arizona, California, Columbia, Farmers Branch, Immigration, immigration raid, Joe Arpaio, Lincoln Diaz-Balart, Postville | Comments

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