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House to Hold Hearing on Plant Raids

Hundreds of people remain in custody, with dozens facing federal criminal charges.

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Plant Fires Workers Left After Raid

Former workers at PH Food said they'd been abruptly fired, and that the company is withholding pay.

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Job Fair Held After ICE Raids

While the raids at seven plants were unprecedented, chicken processing facilities are normally plagued by heavy turnover and ravenously seek employees.

Plants 'Willfully' Used Illegal Workers

Investigators behind the biggest immigration raid in a decade relied on informants inside the plants and data from electronic monitoring bracelets.

Immigration Raids to Have Long-Term Effects

Effects of the largest immigration raid in at least a decade are likely to ripple for years through six Mississippi small towns that host poultry plants.

Immigration Raids Net 680 Arrests at Poultry Plants

The plants' tough processing jobs have mainly been filled by Latino immigrants eager to take whatever work they can get.

Raids Hit Mississippi Food Plants

Employees filled three buses and were taken to a military hangar to be processed for immigration violations.