According to the Washington Post, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulled off the largest single workplace raid on illegal aliens in a decade last night.
Federal officials arrested 97 immigrants at a meat-processing plant in rural Tennessee late Thursday in what civil rights organizations said was the largest single workplace raid in a decade and a sign that the Trump administration is carrying out its plan to aggressively ramp up enforcement this year.
Ten people were arrested on federal criminal charges, one person was arrested on state charges and 86 immigrants were detained for being in the country illegally, Tammy Spicer, a spokeswoman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said in a statement Friday. All of those arrested were in the country illegally, she said. Most were from Mexico. […]
The National Immigration Law Center and other immigrant advocates said the Tennessee raid was the largest since the George W. Bush administration and deployed many of the tactics of that era, with a surprise blitz of the factory, a helicopter and streets blocked by state and local authorities. ICE officials would not say where the raid ranked in terms of size.
In 2017, acting ICE director Thomas Homan warned that the agency would be bolstering its efforts to prevent U.S. companies from employing illegal aliens.
“Now we're going to prosecute the employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens,” Homan said.
“We're going to detain and remove the illegal alien workers.”
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