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When immigration agents raided chicken processing plants in central Mississippi in 2019, they arrested nearly 700 undocumented workers—many of them parents of children enrolled in local schools.
Immigration officials raided seven Mississippi chicken processing plants, arresting 680 mostly Latino workers in the largest workplace sting in a decade.
Dozens of immigrant workers have been released a day after being detained in the largest immigration raid in a decade in the United States.
On August 7, 2019, federal authorities raided seven chicken processing plants operated by Koch Foods and four other companies in Mississippi and detained 680 undocumented workers. The exact number arrested at the Koch facilities has not been specified but authorities used five buses to transfer detainees from the plant to a hangar at a nearby ...
In May 2019, the Jackson, Mississippi, city council awarded a resolution to Hurst due to Hurst's role in apprehending the murderer of Brittany Green, who was shot to death at a gas station. [ 5 ] In August 2019, Hurst announced immigration raids in Mississippi which he said were "the largest single state immigration enforcement operation in our ...
A 2019 investigative report stated that for-profit prisons "consistently and substantially" hold immigrants longer than public detention centers. The more people detained, the more money private contractors receive. In a 2019 budget proposal, ICE estimated a bed in a privately contracted detention facility to cost $148.43 per day.
ICE's Homeland Security Investigations during a workplace investigation at an agricultural processing plant in Mississippi in 2019.
August 8 – The largest U.S. immigration raids in a decade result in 680 arrests in Mississippi. [234] [235] [236] August 9 – The North Dakota Supreme Court upholds a voting law that disenfranchises 10% of the state's Native Americans. [237] August 10