Immigrants Are Missed After Workplace Raid

Hamblen County, Tennessee, has entered a new era, the one that began after the immigration raid on Thursday, April 5. In the early morning of that day, dozens of law enforcement agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the FBI, and local police stormed all entrances of the Southeastern Provisions meatpacking plant perched on a hill in the mostly rural town of Bean Station, TN. With roads blocked off and a helicopter hovering overhead, ICE agents removed about 100 people,...

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