Fate of workers in raid murky
Joel Burgess • JBurgess@CITIZEN-TIMES.com
• published September 14, 2008 12:15 am

A month has passed since immigration agents rounded up 57 people at a Woodfin manufacturing plant, and advocates say they have yet to learn what happened to all the workers.

The federal system that determines whether the former employees of parachute maker Mills Manufacturing will be deported gives them few rights found in criminal and civil courts.

There is no notice of a person’s detention and immigrants wanting to fight deportation have no right to a government-paid attorney.

“I’ve had clients that I couldn’t find. And I’ve seen cases where people sit around in detention for a year and a half before they get a decision,â€