Thread: ICE raids plant in Laurel, Mississippi

Originally Posted by florgal

The Rev. Nilpon Garcia, pastor of the Seventh Day Adventist Church in Laurel, said he had family members of eight Hispanic workers at Howard Industries call him this morning upset about the raid.

http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs. ... /1001/news

Laurel Seventh Day Adventist Church
1606 W 15th St, Laurel - (601) 428-7535

Maybe the good pastor needs to be reminded that being in this country illegally is a crime. and so is using false or stolen SS# and people's ID is also a crime. Maybe the good pastor needs to be remineded that the only people to really blame are the people who did this to themselves and their family

WELCOME ICEFAN

So, you were there when the raid took place?!

Please post the video and/or pictures!

Any estimates on how many ICE has taken into custody so far?

Originally Posted by florgal

WELCOME ICEFAN

So, you were there when the raid took place?!
Please post the video and/or pictures!
Any estimates on how many ICE has taken into custody so far?

I have gone and looked at all the newspaper and TV websites that i can get links for at this site www.newslink.org and none of the stations and papers in the area have any video posted at this time

Read end of article to make your blood boil

http://www.sunherald.com/306/story/768921.html
ICE raids plant in Laurel, Mississippi
By HOLBROOK MOHR - Associated Press Writer
JACKSON, Miss. -- Federal immigration agents raided a major manufacturing plant in south Mississippi on Monday, but it wasn't immediately clear how many illegal workers were taken into custody.
Barbara Gonzalez, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman, said the target of the operation was Howard Industries Inc. in Laurel, a town of about 18,000 people located about 85 miles southeast of Jackson.
Howard Industries produces dozens of products, ranging from electrical transformers to medical supplies, according to the company's Web site.
"This is a targeted enforcement operation that is part of an ongoing ICE investigation that has revealed that illegal aliens are employed at Howard Industries," Gonzalez said from the scene. "Because the operation is still under way, an arrest total is not available at this time."
Bill Chandler, the executive director of the Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance, an advocacy group, said the number of arrests could be in the hundreds. That estimate could not immediately be verified. People coming out of the plant told The Hattiesburg American newspaper that so many illegal immigrants were arrested that the plant had to be shut down.
A recording at Howard Industries plant on Monday said the telephone switchboard was closed.
Billy Howard, the company's chief executive officer, did not immediately respond to a message left by The Associated Press. A man who answered a phone call at the company's security station said reporters would have to call back Tuesday and speak with someone in the personnel department.
"ICE has created a major humanitarian crisis," Chandler said. "There's children that won't have anyone there when they get home from school because their parents have been arrested. They're creating a major crisis."
Gonzalez, the ICE spokeswoman, said public health service officers were on the scene to interview and evaluate the condition of the workers to determine if there are "any humanitarian concerns we need to be aware of."
"Humanitarian concerns will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis to determine if an alternative to detention is warranted," she said.
Gonzalez declined to tell AP how may agents were involved in the operation, saying "that's law enforcement sensitive information."
Howard Industries was founded in Jones County in the 1960s. In 2002, then-Gov. Ronnie Musgrove called a special Legislative session in which lawmakers approved a $31.5 million, taxpayer-backed incentive plan aimed at helping Howard Industries expand its operations. The state required the company to create 2,000 new jobs - 700 by 2007 and another 1,300 by 2012.Billy Howard said at the time that he wouldn't have been willing to invest $80 million of the company's money into the expansion if there wasn't a quality work force in the area.
"Without the type of employees that we have in Mississippi, this would not be possible. Mississippi has people that are very trainable," Howard said in a July 2002 interview.At the time, Bob Rohrlack, who was then the executive director of the Mississippi Development Authority, said if Howard falls short of employment goals, the state will take away $3,000 for each job that was not created.
Note: ICE says people whose relatives were detained can call for information: 866-341-3858.

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God Bless America

ICEFAN.
first of all welcome to our forums and feel free to post your opinion on any topic that you see fit.

I read part of an article that said the UNION for you was the one who actually called ICE in regards to this.

Know anything about it, or think you can call your union and ask if anyone knows anything

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