Posted on 08/28/2008 5:25:32 AM PDT by kellynla
LAUREL, Miss. — A day after the largest single-workplace immigration raid in U.S. history, Elizabeth Alegria was too scared to send her son to school and worried about when she'd see her husband again.
Nearly 600 immigrants suspected of being in the country illegally were detained, creating panic among dozens of families in this small southern Mississippi town.
Alegria, 26, a Mexican immigrant, was working at the Howard Industries transformer plant Monday when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents stormed in. When they found out she has two sons, ages 4 and 9, she was fitted with a bracelet and told to appear in federal court next month. But her husband, Andres, wasn't so lucky.
"I'm very traumatized because I don't know if they are going to let my husband go and when I will see him," Alegria said through a translator Tuesday as she returned to the Howard Industries parking lot to retrieve her sport utility vehicle.
The superintendent of the county school district said about half of approximately 160 Hispanic students were absent Tuesday.
Roberto Velez, pastor at Iglesia Cristiana Peniel, where an estimated 30 to 40 percent of the 200 parishioners were caught up in the raid, said parents were afraid immigration officials would take them.
"They didn't send their kids to school today," he said. "How scared is that?"
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Well that's one way to cut down on classroom size and education costs.
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If only they had a country where they could live without fear. A country where they were always legal. A country where they were full citizens.
Wait. They do have their own country. Go home.
If they followed the rules and immigrated legally (which I agree, should be streamlined a bit), they’d have nothing to worry about.
WELL DUHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
Not scared enough. They should be packing their bags and arranging transportation to Mexico.
Sometimnes fear is a good thing....
Gute Fahrt!
In my town there are over 3,000 fewer students in the public schools after years of increasing enrollment.
The reason? The new employer sanctions law that penalizes employers who hire illegals!
exactly. . . .I hate these MSM attempts to make law-breakers victims and the people who want the law enforced are the evil oppressors. Hey MSM. . .I’m happy she’s fearful. . .YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO FEEL THAT WAY WHEN YOU BREAK THE LAW!!
Well, you should be traumatized! I can only hope that you'll get to see him as soon as you're both back in the old country after you get your butts deported.
The illegals are not scared enough - they’re still there, right?
Now we know the real story.
package all of the thieving and lying illeagels and ship them home. Notice, I said “illegels”. Now you want to do it the correct way like millions of other have done then I will welcome them with open aarms
Yes, go home and demand that your OWN leadership clean up its act.
There is no reason such “hard working people” can’t make their country stronger economically if they had the courage to uproot the corruption.
It must have been refreshing to have heard English in the classrooms.
Illegal aliens kill 12 US citizens per day here in the US.
More - by far - than the War On Terror.
Good. I think criminals should be afraid of the consequences of their actions. That goes for both illegals and for those who hire them.
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