ICE Terrorizes Immigrant Women Workers, Arresting More Than 280 in Largest Workplace Raid in a Decade, Leaving Families and Communities Devastated! with Felix Villalobos, Managing Attorney, RAICES, the largest immigration legal services provider in Texas. and Maria Yolisma Garcia, President, North Texas Dream Team
More than 280, predominantly women, immigrant workers were detained after a workplace raid on an electronics repair company in Texas. The raid was the largest since Trump took office, with a pledge to crack down on illegal immigration. The operation, in Allen, a suburb of Dallas, evoked strong reactions, as families rushed to the site of the raid, protesters gathered outside an ICE (Immigrations and Customs Enforcement) office and immigrant advocacy groups condemned the operation for throwing families lives into turmoil in a matter of hours
produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
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