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Fear of immigrants after the raid factory MlPar MOHRLAUREL Holbrook, Miss – A day after the attack at work, the largest migration in U.S. history, Elizabeth Alegria was to send her son too much anxiety about school and worried, as they would their mari . see Près 600 suspected illegal immigrants in the country were arrested, creating panic among dozens of families in this small town in Mississippi sud.Alegria, 26, a Mexican immigrant working at the Howard Industries transformer station Monday when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents stormed in. When they found out that she has two son, aged 4 and 9, it was fitted with a bracelet and told to appear before a federal court next month. But her husband, Andres, was not so lucky. “I’m very traumatized because I do not know if she would let my husband go and when I see him,” Alegria said through a translator Tuesday, she went back to the Howard Industries parking lot to retrieve her sport utility vehicle. The director of the school district in the county, nearly half of the approximately 160 students were missing Hispanic mardi.Roberto Velez, Iglesia Cristiana Peniel Pastor, where an estimated 30 40 percent of the 200 parishioners were caught in the RAID, said the parents were afraid immigration would take them . “They did not send their children to school today,” he said. “What is fear?” A worker on Monday began to sweep the factory, said colleagues applauded as immigrants were taken into custody. Federal officials said a tip from a union member prompted them to start the investigation années.Fabiola Pena, 21, cradled her 2-year-old daughter as she described a chaotic scene in the plant as the raid began, accompanied by applause. “I was crying the whole time. I do not know what to do,” Pena said. “We do not know what was happening because everyone started to run. Some people thought it was a bomb but then we thought it was the immigration. “Approximately 100 of the 595 workers arrested were released for humanitarian reasons, many mothers have been equipped with electronic monitoring bracelets and allowed to go home to their children back after autorités.Environ 475 other workers were in an ICE system Jena, Louisiana, nine, who were under 18 were transferred to the custody transfer office of the resettlement of réfugiés.John Foxworth, an attorney representing some of the immigrants gave eight appeared before a federal court in Hattiesburg on Tuesday because criminal charges for alleged false social security and face identification résidence.Il said the raid was traumatic for families. “There is no communication, an immediate loss of all kinds of messages and a lack of understanding of what is happening their loved ones,” he said. said: “A complete and utter feeling of helplessness”. prisoners were from Brazil, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama and Peru, said Barbara Gonzalez, Door word of the ICE. “We have children without fathers and mothers who had brought their husbands,” said Velez’s son, Pastor Robert Young, the church. “It was like a horror story. You will be treated as if they were criminals.” Howard Industries Mississippi Pine Belt region, known for commercial timber growth and chicken processing plants. Tech company produces dozens of products ranging from electrical transformers, medical supplies, according to his website Web.Gonzalez informed the police executed search warrants at the factory and company headquarters in nearby Ellisville. She said no company executives had been arrested, but was an “ongoing investigation and yesterday’s action was only the first part.” A woman in Ellisville headquarters told The Associated Press on Tuesday that no one was available to answer questions.Dans a statement to the Laurel Leader-Call newspaper, Howard Industries said the company “runs every check the immigration status of all applicants for their must to identify jobs. ” Governor Haley Barbour recently signed a law Mississippi employers to use an internal security system the immigration status of the new law to check travailleurs.La force since 1st July for companies with state contracts and takes effect on 1 January for other companies. Mississippi lawmakers once made phones from Howard Industries, but it is unclear whether the company has contracts actuel.Selon state law, a company of employing illegal immigrants could be sentenced signed contracts for three years and lose the right to do business in Mississippi for a year.The law also allows a crime to accept for one illegal immigrant a job in Mississippi. A message with the District Attorney’s Office was to leave after hours comment on whether it is with the new law, complaints against Howard Industries or the State of Mississippi travailleurs.Le RAID file in one of several nationally in the last 12 years.The May Feune fear of immigrants after the raid factory Mlhttp: / / www. magic valley. com/articles/2008/08/27/ap/us/d92qikfg0. txt