Where did the United States immigration cops nab 595 people in its largest raid ever?
Tim Gaynor PHOENIX (Reuters) – U.S. immigration agents have arrested 595 people at a Mississippi factory in what was the largest workplace enforcement raid in the United States to date, an immigration official said on Tuesday. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Barbara Gonzalez said federal agents arrested the workers in a raid at the Howard Industries Inc. factory in Laurel, Miss, on Monday, “This is the largest targeted workplace enforcement operation we have carried out in the United States to date,” Gonzalez told Reuters by telephone. The swoop at the plant, which makes electrical equipment including transformers, was part of an ongoing crackdown on identity theft and fraudulent use of Social Security numbers by illegal immigrants. Those arrested included citizens of Peru, Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Panama, Honduras, Brazil and one from Germany, ICE said in a press release. The detainees were interviewed, fingerprinted and photographed by ICE agents, and processed
