Hundreds of Workers Held in Immigration Raid

By Adam Nossiter

Source: New York Times

August 26, 2008

“Laurel, Miss. - In another large-scale workplace immigration crackdown, federal officials raided a factory here on Monday, detaining at least 350 workers they said were in the country illegally….

Bill Chandler, executive director of the Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance, called the Laurel raid a violation of human rights.

‘We’re very disturbed at what’s happened,’ Mr. Chandler said. ‘It’s a real contradiction between our proclaimed values of hard work and family in Mississippi and the actions of local law enforcement, and ICE. I think it’s a real affront to our values. They’re creating their own terrorism by going after workers.’” Click here to read the full article.