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Episode #2032: Mississippi Raids

Published August 7, 2020 at 2:08 PM EDT

A year ago, on August 7th, 2019, ICE agents arrived at seven chicken processing plants in central Mississippi and arrested 680 workers. It was the largest single-state immigration raid in US history.

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