ICE agents arrest 680 undocumented workers in Mississippi

[Right_in_Virginia]

ICE agents arrest 680 undocumented workers in Mississippi
The Hill, Aug 7, 2019

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents on Wednesday arrested roughly 680 undocumented immigrants at seven Mississippi poultry processing facilities.

An ICE spokesman confirmed the raids to The Hill, saying it was part of a coordinated operation with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Mississippi.

“In what is believed to be the largest single-state immigration enforcement operation in our nation's history, today at seven sites… ICE HSI (Homeland Security Investigation) special agents executed administrative and criminal search warrants resulting in the detention of approximately 680 illegal aliens,” Mike Hurst, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi, said Wednesday afternoon.

“The arrests today were part of a year-long investigation,” ICE Acting Director Matt Albence added.

Detained employees at a Koch Foods plant in Morton, Miss., 40 miles east of Jackson, were boarded on three buses and taken to the Mississippi National Guard base in Flowood, Miss., for processing, according to The Associated Press.

More:  https://thehill.com/latino/456566-immigration-agents-arrest-680-mississippi-food-processing-facilities

[PeteS in CA]

Koch Foods better have (fraudulent) I-9s for each of those illegals plus proof they tried to verify their authenticity. Otherwise some manglers need to be modeling orange jumpsuits.

[mountaineer]

Jackson Mayor Calls on Churches to Protect Illegal Aliens After Massive ICE Raids Net 680 Suspected Illegals Working at Mississippi Chicken Plants
Avatar by Kristinn Taylor
 August 7, 2019

Jackson, Mississippi Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba posted a plea for churches to give sanctuary to illegal aliens in the wake of ICE raids on several chicken processing plants in Mississippi Wednesday that detained about 680 suspected illegal aliens. It was the largest workplace enforcement actions in the nation’s history, according to a statement released by the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Southern District of Mississippi.

Lumumba’s statement:
 

    “The City of Jackson is firmly committed to promoting and securing safe communities. We unflinchingly uphold the canon of human rights for human beings. The ICE raids are both dehumanizing and ineffective as a tactic for protecting citizens from potential harm. These raids will only further alienate communities from law enforcement, disrupt community policing efforts, and cause law enforcement to forfeit credibility and trust among the people they are sworn to protect and serve. I’m calling upon faith institutions in our community to become sanctuaries for our immigrant neighbors and protect them from potential harm. The City of Jackson strongly objects to the Trump administration’s ICE raids.”   ... Gateway Pundit

[Wingnut]

Jackson, Mississippi Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba

WTF kind of diversity name is that?

[mountaineer]

Jackson, Mississippi Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba

WTF kind of diversity name is that?

Not what I would have expected in Jackson,  Mississippi.

[dfwgator]

Not what I would have expected in Jackson,  Mississippi.

Jackson has gone full "Chocolate City".

[PeteS in CA]

Jackson, Mississippi Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba
...

Is he the racist idiot who had some sort of dust-up a few years ago with a neighboring city's PD or the county's sheriff department, basically telling them to stay out of Jackson if they were pursuing a criminal?

[rustynail]

Heard on the radio that they are being released.

[Bigun]

Mississippi Immigration Raids Lead To Arrests Of Hundreds Of Workers

August 7, 20199:25 PM ET

Federal immigration officials raided several food-processing plants in Mississippi on Wednesday and arrested approximately 680 people believed to be working in the U.S. without authorization.

The coordinated raids were conducted by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations "at seven agricultural processing plants across Mississippi," according to an ICE statement. In addition to the arrests, agents seized company business records...

https://www.npr.org/2019/08/07/749243985/mississippi-immigration-raids-net-hundreds-of-workers?fbclid=IwAR2E6D0dpetojIF_ST06ZaRzLf74XwbC7dtWxP6aRsynWvG0ts4n31dlaOQ

[Bigun]

Nice day's work ICE!  Keep at it!

[Mod5]

Topics merged.

[rustynail]

AFL-CIO Union Comes Out in Support of Illegal Alien Workers Taking U.S. Jobs…

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/08/08/wow-afl-cio-union-comes-out-in-support-of-illegal-alien-workers-taking-u-s-jobs/

[Bigun]

Topics merged.

OOPS!  I looked but I guessed I missed the previous one.

[jpsb]

Good job ICE!