Undocumented workers face a new level of
insecurity under the Trump administration.
April 27, 2017
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At the end of February immigration agents
descended on a handful of Japanese and Chinese restaurants in the suburbs of
Jackson, Mississippi, and in nearby Meridian. Fifty-five immigrant cooks,
dishwashers, servers and bussers were loaded into vans and taken to a detention
center about 160 miles away in Jena, Louisiana.
Their arrests and subsequent treatment did
more than provoke outrage among Jackson's immigrant rights activists. Labor
advocates in California also took note of the incident, fearing that it marked
the beginning of a new wave of immigrant raids and enforcement actions in
workplaces. In response, California legislators have written a bill providing
legal protections for workers, to keep the Mississippi experience from being
duplicated in the Golden State.
Once the Mississippi restaurant workers had
been arrested, they essentially fell off the radar screen for several days.[...]
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| Tom Cat Bakery workers. Photo: Erik McGregor/Sipa via AP Images |
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