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| ICE raid in Los Angeles. Photo: Allen J. Schaben/LAT via Getty Images |
In 2000, an immigration official
admitted that the authorities rarely detained undocumented workers “unless the
employer turns a worker in, and employers usually do that only to break a union
or prevent a strike or that kind of stuff.”
David L. Wilson, Truthout
August 23, 2019
On August 7, Immigration and
Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents carried out coordinated raids at seven
agricultural processing plants in Mississippi, detaining 680 immigrant workers.
Officials told The
Washington Post that the operation was “the largest single-state workplace
enforcement action in U.S. history.”
The massive operation generated
terror in immigrant communities already traumatized by a massacre targeting
people of Mexican origin in El Paso, Texas, days earlier, and much of the
U.S.-born population was outraged by images of detained workers’ sobbing
children.
As has happened after workplace
raids in the past, news accounts noted that the employers
remained free while their workers were led off to migrant jails in
handcuffs.[…]
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