Feds Round Up 600 Alleged Illegal Immigrants in Mississippi
Posted on August 27, 2008
Filed Under Immigration |
Here’s some more good news on the illegal immigration front, and it just goes to show us what can happen when we pressure the government to do the will of the People.
The largest single-workplace immigration raid in U.S. history has caused panic among Hispanic families in this small southern Mississippi town, where federal agents rounded up nearly 600 plant workers suspected of being in the country illegally.
About 100 of the 595 detained workers were released for humanitarian reasons, many of them mothers who were fitted with electronic monitoring bracelets and allowed to go home to their children, officials said.
About 475 other workers were transferred to a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Jena, La. Nine who were under 18 were transferred to the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement.
This story also shows the importance of cracking down on the employers of illegal immigrants. I mean, are you going to tell me that this company–Howard Industries–didn’t know it had 600 alleged illegals working for it? Please.
Let’s keep the pressure on the government because it’s working–slowly, but surely.
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