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Raid's Outcome May Signal a Retreat In Immigration Strategy, Critics Say
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The Washington Post
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September 2, 2008
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The federal government's handling of a massive immigration raid
at a Mississippi manufacturing plant last week has led critics to
suggest that the Bush administration is backpedaling from its
aggressive use of criminal charges and fast-tracked trials against
illegal immigrants caught at workplaces.
U.S. officials reject any suggestion of a retreat or a shift in
strategy in the Aug. 25 raid at a Howard Industries transformer
plant in Laurel, Miss. In the nation's largest immigration
enforcement operation at a single work site, federal agents arrested
nearly 600 illegal immigrants there but charged only eight
criminally, turning over the rest for civil deportation proceedings,
as they have in ...
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