Federal official raided a factory in Laurel, Miss., Monday and detained 350 alleged illegal immigrants, The New York Times reported.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents surrounded the Howard Industries Inc. factory as part of larger crackdown on immigration across the country, according to The Times.
The raid follows May's large immigration operation in Postville, Iowa, when agents detained 400 workers from a meatpacking plant. Iowa's detainees were imprisoned for months for falsifying documents. No criminal charges stemmed from Monday's raid, but many are marked for deportation, Barbara Gonzalez, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman, told The Times.
-M.M.
