The Ongoing Harms of Trump-era Mississippi Raids & Immigration Prosecutions

In October 2021, under the leadership of the Biden Administration, the Secretary of the U. [...] § 1326, and other charges and convictions stemming from the worksite raids, continue to impact these workers and reaffirm the chilling message sent by ICE to immigrant workers across the U. [...] Current State of Affairs: Raids, Prosecutions & Workplace Abuse The ongoing impact of the 2019 raids must be understood in the context of the dire conditions in Mississippi poultry plants and retaliatory efforts to keep workers from filing complaints or 1 . [...] During the Trump years, DHS also increased the use of prosecutions for unlawful reentry to target and terrorize immigrant communities in the interior of the United States. [...] The continued use of prosecutions stemming from the raids against survivors of those raids is the most blatant example of DHS weaponizing criminal immigration prosecutions to target immigrants who are already victims of wrongful and retaliatory enforcement, for simply trying to be with, and support, their families in the United States.