Raid At An East Houston Plant

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Around 7AM, Wednesday, 150 to 200 ICE agents raided an East Houston plant, Action Rags U.S.A. The company has 240 employees. Bob Rutt, ICE’s agent in charge, would not specify what led them to plan this raid, which is at least the second major immigration enforcement action in Houston in recent months.
Here are the [...]

ICE’s AgriProcessors Cattle Call

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[The is first part of the a two part series]
In a massive, coordinated effort, more than 100 agents from the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) descended on AgriProcessors Inc., the largest kosher meatpacking plant in the country, in Postville, Iowa. The raid is considered to be one of the largest government dragnets against [...]

Mass Deportation: Lessons from the Past

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In this country, policies concerning immigration continually confront politicians to make difficult decisions. In a democracy, every public policy requires some accommodations from what experts might conceive as a technocratic ideal to adapt to political pressures. There is no reason to expect that policy toward who is allowed to work in a country would be [...]

ICED: Walking In Their Shoes

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Breakthrough, a New York-based nonprofit international human rights organization, recently launched their video game, ICED! (I Can End Deportation), that aims to educate people on current immigration policies, and is targeted to a younger demographic.
Breakthrough is not new to the immigration game. Last summer, I wrote about the deportation of Anslem Ifill, an immigrant [...]

When ICE Melts Down: Who Hires These People?

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Mark Juvette, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, shot and killed himself, after an armed standoff with Grand Prairie, TX police. Police were called in to check on Juvette, 40, after co-workers expressed their concern for his wellbeing. ICE told police that Juvette called in sick on day about a week ago, saying he had [...]

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