Two Years Later ICE Raid Still Haunts Some Portlanders

Posted by Staff Writer on Jul 15th, 2009 and filed under Local. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry

A few hours after dawn, several white unmarked vans departed from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) headquarters in downtown Portland. Workers, most of whom lived in North Portland, had left their homes earlier to arrive at the Fresh Del Monte food processing factory, donning their safety clothes and gear to begin another workday cutting and packaging fruit. By 10:30am, agents had spilled from the unmarked vans and surrounded the factory. It was June 12, 2007. The most ferocious immigration raid in Oregon and, at that time, in the United States was underway. By late afternoon, 168 individuals had been arrested.Read The Whole Story At ilw.com

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