LAUREL, MISS. -- Fabiola Pena considered running away from her factory job when she realized she was being targeted in a federal immigration raid. She was deterred when she noticed the helicopters hovering overhead.
But helicopters were not what shocked Pena the most on her last, fateful day at Howard Industries, the largest employer in this small Southern town. It was the black co-workers who clapped and cheered, Pena said, as she and hundreds of other Latino immigrant laborers were arrested and hauled away.
"They need to go and do this in every little town," Tonya Jackson said.
Jackson, who is black, said that over the years she had applied numerous times for a job at the locally owned manufacturer, which employs about 4,000 workers. Jackson, 30, said she never received a callback. The raid, she said, was a welcome purge of illegal Latino laborers who had taken jobs they didn't deserve.
"We've been here all our lives," she said. "And it seems like they have just arrived and are getting the nice cars and the good homes."
Her stance puts her at odds with Obama. The Democratic presidential nominee's website describes such raids as "ineffective" measures that have "placed all the burdens of a broken system onto immigrant families."
[as usual, the majority of the piece is illegal-as-victim, and nowhere is there evidence of the town 'being divided' as the title implies - quite the contrary, given how many of the populace are the true victims of illegal immigration there's overwhelming support for enforcement... but focusing on that would be off (the media's) message.]
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