Lawmakers Travel to Mississippi, Looking Closer at Impact of Controversial ICE Raids [kticradio.com]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 11/10/1912:00 PM

By ABC News Radio, KTIC, November 8, 2019

The House Homeland Security Committee convened in Mississippi for a field hearing on Thursday, looking into the impacts of Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids in the area.

In August, hundreds of ICE agents descended into the southern state to arrest workers in what has been described by officials as the largest state-wide raid in U.S. history.

ICE captured evidence of just over 400 instances of fraudulent identities being used by employees at the poultry plants they raided, said Jere Miles, the chief ICE agent overseeing the raids. Prosecutors used those documents to determine whether to move forward in charging those involved with a crime.

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