5 years after ICE raid, Mississippi chicken workers more prepared
Nov 12, 2024 · President-elect Trump has promised mass deportations, including workplace raids like those that took place during his first term at chicken processing plants in rural Mississippi.
Explainer | The Ongoing Harms of Trump-era Mississippi Raids …
Jan 25, 2024 · In August 2019, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) carried out massive workplace raids on chicken processing plants across Central Mississippi, arresting 680 Indigenous, Latino, and immigrant poultry workers.
Chicken plants raided by ICE 'willfully and unlawfully' hired ...
Aug 10, 2019 · Almost all of the Mississippi chicken plants raided by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials on Wednesday were "willfully and unlawfully" employing people without proper work...
Mississippi communities scarred by ICE raids fear future under …
Dec 9, 2024 · Morton and nearby towns in central Mississippi saw the biggest workplace ICE raids in the country in 2019, when nearly 700 workers were arrested from chicken processing plants.
Years After Mississippi ICE Raids, Families Still Rebuilding
Aug 23, 2024 · ICE’s 2019 raids on Mississippi chicken plants coincided with a broader push by the Trump administration to crack down on migrant labor. Over the next year, U.S. immigration authorities referred hundreds of poultry workers for criminal charges tied to identity theft, leading to prolonged detainments and deportations.
After ICE Raids, a Reckoning in Mississippi’s Chicken Country
Dec 28, 2019 · The Koch Foods chicken processing plant in Morton, Miss., was targeted by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.
Undocumented workers brace for ICE raids, mass deportation …
Nov 25, 2024 · Two people are taken into custody by ICE agents at a Koch Foods Inc. plant in Morton, Miss., one of seven food processing plants targeted for coordinated raids in the state.
Mississippi ICE raids: Feds announce indictments in chicken …
Aug 6, 2020 · Four managers at two chicken plants have been indicted for allegedly aiding undocumented workers to live and work in Mississippi, according to U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of...
A year after Mississippi ICE raids, chicken plants face few …
Aug 7, 2020 · Hours after immigration agents arrested about 680 Mississippi poultry plant employees in the largest single-state worksite raid in the country’s history, U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst had a message...
ICE raids 7 Mississippi chicken plants, detaining nearly 700 workers
Aug 8, 2019 · Immigration officials have raided multiple chicken plants in Mississippi, detaining 680 workers in what officials are calling the largest single-state sting in American history.
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