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08/27/2008: "Nearly 600 detained in Miss. plant raid"

Federal officials say nearly 600 suspected illegal immigrants were detained in a raid on a manufacturing plant in southern Mississippi, making it the largest such sweep in the country.
A spokeswoman says more than 100 of those caught up in Monday's raid on Howard Industries were released based on humanitarian concerns, mostly because they have children.

Most of the rest were transferred to a federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Jena, La. Nine 17-year-olds were transferred to the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement.

The Mississippi raid was one of a series of recent high-profile crackdowns on illegal immigrants. In May, officials swept into the Agriprocessors kosher meatpacking plant in Iowa and detained 400 workers.

[ Letting illegal immigrants go free because they have children?! ]



http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D92Q6K480&show_article=1

Replies: 4 Comments

on Wednesday, August 27th, Osama bin Laden said

Its meaningless. How many people have been deported over the past 5 years or so? How many illegal aliens have come in during that time?

The net loss of illegals from these operations is negligible.

Its just press play to try to dampen concerns about immigration issues.

They can show this and say they're doing something about it when they're doing, in actual numbers, next to nothing.

The government has no problem with immigration and quite welcomes it. And whoever wins in November is going to support some platform of amnesty and continued non-white immigration.

on Wednesday, August 27th, Teutonophile said

So this was a Kosher operation?