Mississippi Raids Net Americans Jobs
ICE enforcement pays off
By Andrew R. Arthur on January 2, 2020
On Sunday the New York Times reported a follow-up to an August 7, 2019, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operation in which the agency executed criminal search warrants at seven agricultural processing plants owned by five employers in Mississippi. Not surprisingly, it found that the operation "opened up jobs for American workers" (in the words of the headline of the Chicago Tribune's reprint of the Times story).
The operation was much-maligned at the time, as I explained in an August post:
With respect to criticisms of this operation, there were complaints about the "separation of parents from their children" that were a consequence of the operation. For example, there is the following excerpt from a letter signed by Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, Chairman Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) of that committee's Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, and Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) of the House Homeland Security Committee that was addressed to Attorney General William Barr and Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan:
https://cis.org/Arthur/Mississippi-Raids-Net-Americans-Jobs
