Local Immigration activists groups planing on protesting the Chicago ICE Office over the raids. (It's good for a laugh! )

(This is output from Google Translate, so the wording is not 100%)
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We are workers, not criminals!

What: Press Conference and Protest in local immigration.
When: Friday, April 18, 5 p.m.
Where: ICE Offices, 101 W. Congress Pkwy. (Corner Congress Clark)
Who: March 10 Movement and allies.
Why: In response to the raids conducted by the INS (ICE), the members of the Movement March 10 Chicago have organized an emergency protest outside the offices of ICE.

For more information, contact:
Jorge Mujica: 773.852.8815
Rosi Carrasco: 708.715.7397
Raquel Vega: 708.715.7397
Martin Unzueta: 773.653.3664


On Wednesday April 16, ICE executed a series of raids in chicken processing plants Pilgrim's Pride in five states.

Obscenamente, immigration agents arrived at the homes of the workers, as well as plants. According to reports, 400 workers at Pilgrim's Pride were arrested, 4% of its workforce. Pilgrim's Pride is the world's largest processor of poultry.


Workers at plants Batesville (Ark.) and Live Oak (Fla.) are members of the Union of Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW). Workers at the plant in Chattanooga (Tenn.) are members of the Steelworkers.


45 immigrants were arrested at the Mt. Pleasant, Texas, 100 people on the ground in Chattanooga (Tenn.), some 100 in Moorefield (W. Virginia), about 20 workers at the plant in Batesville (Ark.), and about 26 in Live Oak (Fla.).


ICE also conducted raids in Houston, western New York, Bradford, Pa.; Mentor, Ohio, and New Martinsville and Wheeling, W. Va.

Press articles for reference:
Http://www.cattlenetwork.com/content.as ... tid=214161
Http://www.wrcbtv.com/news/index.cfm?sid=3930
Http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/5706243.html
Http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/ ... 1687.shtml

This is an intolerable injustice. Members of the Movement on March 10 demanding the immediate release of all migrant workers arrested and a moratorium on all raids.

The raids and other forms of repression have no other objective than to create fear and terror in immigrant communities across the country. Activists for immigrants demanding an end to right-wing and xenophobic hysteria to characterize as criminals to undocumented workers.

The First Day of May 2008, we will be marching for equal rights for all workers, for the Legalization now, and an immediate halt to the raids and deportations.

Join us tomorrow and May 1.