Amy Goodman
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ICE raided 7 Mississippi poultry plants after workers fought for their rights
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August 9, 2019
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7:13Now PlayingU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raided seven Koch Foods poultry plants in Mississippi this week, resulting in 680 arrests. Labor activists believe these mass raids were a direct response to a class-action lawsuit filed against the company last year, charging them with sexual harassment, national origin and race discrimination, and retaliation against Latino workers at one of its Mississippi plants. The company was forced to settle for $3.75 million. ICE provided no prior notice to local government officials, leaving schools scrambling to help children who returned home on the first day of school to find their parents missing. We spoke with L. Patrice Ice, legal projects director at the Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance, and Chokwe Antar Lumumba, activist and mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, about the time leading up to the largest single-state raids in U.S. history and the lasting impact these mass arrests will have on their community.
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