Illegal workers fled a number of Georgia food processing plants this past week after highly-publicized raids by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency at five Mississippi plants.
This month, ICE agents conducted the largest workplace raid in more than a decade across five food processing plants in Mississippi, netting the arrests of 680 illegal aliens. That same day, though, ICE officials said they released about 300 of the illegal workers back into the U.S. on “humanitarian grounds.” More than 200 of the illegal workers had prior criminal records and a federal criminal investigation is expected to result in convictions of the employers at the plants. The raids have already resulted in job fairs at some of the plants seeking to hire locals.
Those ICE raids, according to reports compiled by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC), spurred illegal workers in Hall County, Georgia — where numerous food processing plants are located — to flee their jobs in fear that they could be arrested for illegally working in the country.
Jerry Gonzalez with the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials told AJC that food processing plant workers fleeing their jobs following the Mississippi ICE raids proved that employers were illegally hiring illegal aliens.
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5 comments:
yes they are fleeing and fleeing not only these plants but legal and voting Hispanics are fleeing the democrat party because they are happy and pleased with the President. With these raids alone they have seen their wages increase and better benefits offered. The fact that legal and voting Hispanics are fleeing the democrat party makes them very angry. This is why they are getting their very primal and uncivilized base all whipped up over nonsense like Russia, then racism and now recession. Democrats especially the voters are not only primal but a very ignorant lot who have no idea what goes on in the real world. They are some sub species of the human being that never evolved into civilized free thinking humans.
Georgia , another crooked state protecting illegals .
Great, maybe these companies will hire American workers and pay them a living wage. Time for the people that are actually doing the work to get their fair share of the profit. ceo's have been over compensating themselves, hogging the millions for years thus forcing the workers to have 2 or more jobs just make ends meet. And I'm not talking about living an extravagant life style here either. Is there something wrong with a man being able to have a family, own a home, a car, have health insurance, and going to bed not hungry on a 40 hr paycheck ? This is the American dream that has been stolen from us by the ceo's and top executives of very profitable companies.
Look out Maryland here they come in an invasion. Thank the MD legislature and Hogan for allowing MD to be a sanctuary State.
Run! Forrest! Run!
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