160 Arrested in Immigration Raid at a Houston Plant [View All]

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Source: NY Times

HOUSTON — Federal immigration agents arrested 160 employees on Wednesday in a raid on a used clothing and rag exporting plant.

The authorities said it was the largest workplace raid ever here. Most of those arrested were from Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, officials said, and 70 percent of them were women.

It was the second major raid in Houston in just over two months. Federal agents arrested 20 workers at a Shipley Do-Nuts factory on April 16.

The roundup on Wednesday at Action Rags USA, which is just north of the Houston Ship Channel, began at 7 a.m. and was conducted by about 200 immigration agents, said Robert Rutt, special agent in charge of the Office of Investigations for Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Houston.

NY Times

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1) Biggest ICE raid stories lately also have underlying subtopic, union organization or worker's rights activity suppressed, and 2) since the targets were women, what's happening with the children?

This inquiring mind wants to know, since it was primarily women and we are talking about Texas, will ICE lock up the 'family' at Camp Hutto family detention center?