IMMIGRANT WORKERS REPORTEDLY FIRED ON THE SPOT AFTER MISSISSIPPI ICE RAIDS: 'ANOTHER BRUTAL ATTACK ON THE LATINX COMMUNITY'
BY CHANTAL DA SILVA ON 8/15/19 AT 4:53 AM EDT
As many as 100 workers at a chicken processing plant in Morton, Mississippi, were reportedly fired after showing up to work in the wake of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids that rocked the state last week.
In a Twitter statement published on Wednesday, Families Belong Together Communications Director Paola Luisi said PH Food Inc., a chicken processing plant, had "just...callously fired 100+ workers less than a week after the raids, adding yet another brutal attack on the Latinx community."
Luisi, who has been contacted by Newsweek for comment, said the local community was organizing in protest against the move–and against the Trump administration's hardline crackdown on immigrants in the U.S.
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