{"id":7838,"date":"2019-08-08T12:31:39","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T07:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=7838"},"modified":"2019-08-08T12:32:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T07:32:00","slug":"u-s-largest-immigration-raid-almost-700-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/7838","title":{"rendered":"U.S Largest Immigration Raid, Almost 700 Arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US immigration officials raided seven Mississippi chicken processing plants, arresting 680 mostly Latino workers in the largest workplace sting in at least a decade.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities believed it is the largest single-state raid of workplaces in the nation\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>About 600 US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents fanned out across the plants operated by five companies, surrounding the perimeters to prevent workers from fleeing.<\/p>\n<p>About 65 kilometers east of the capital of Jackson, workers filled three buses \u2014 two for men and one for women \u2014 at a Koch Foods Inc. plant.<\/p>\n<p>Those arrested were taken to a military hangar to be processed for immigration violations. About 70 family, friends and residents waved goodbye and shouted, \u201cLet them go! Let them go!\u201d Later, two more buses arrived.<\/p>\n<p>They executed multiple federal criminal warrants at seven sites across Mississippi as part of multiple ongoing criminal probes, the Justice Department said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump has adopted a hard line on immigration &#8212; both legal and illegal &#8212; since coming to office in 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US immigration officials raided seven Mississippi chicken processing plants, arresting 680 mostly Latino workers in the largest workplace sting in at least a decade. Authorities believed it is the largest single-state raid of workplaces in the nation\u2019s history. About 600 US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents fanned out across the plants operated by five companies, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,1378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7838"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7848,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7838\/revisions\/7848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}