1282 workers arrested in meatpacking plant raids
Immigration News Briefs Vol. 9, No. 43 - December 15, 2006 Special Issue: 1,282 Arrested in Meatpacking Raids 1. Mass Arrests in Six States 2. Singled Out by Skin Color 3. The Investigation 4. The Union's Response 5. Why Now? Immigration News Briefs is a weekly supplement to Weekly News Update on the Americas, published by Nicaragua Solidarity Network, 339 Lafayette St, New York, NY 10012; tel 212-674-9499; fax 212-674-9139; wnu@igc.org. INB is also distributed free via email; see below or contact nicajg@panix.com for info. You may reprint or distribute items from INB, but please credit us and tell people how to subscribe. *1. Mass Arrests in Six States On Dec. 12, some 1,000 US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents carried out simultaneous dawn raids at six meat processing plants in six states and arrested a total of 1,282 immigrant workers, most of them Latin American. (AP 12/12/06, 12/14/06; ICE News Release 12/13/06) The raids took place on a day celebrated by M