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President Bush’s administration has made it very clear that he’s gonna go out with a bang, not with a wimper when it comes to attacking immigrant communities.

Just yesterday there was a report of another raid by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), this time in Ashville, North Carolina.

Federal officials have taken nearly 60 employees of an
Asheville company into custody as part of an operation to arrest suspected
illegal immigrants.

The 57 people are employees of Mills Manufacturing Corporation, a government
contractor that makes parachutes for the U.S. military.

U.S.Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Ivan L. Ortiz-Delgado said
that arrests are part of a targeted investigation.

Ortiz-Delgado said that Mills Manufacturing is not a target of the
investigation and has been fully cooperative. The 59 workers who have been
detained are out of a total company workforce of 160, Ortiz-Delgado said.

In all the case so far, the workers detained used fraudulent documents, ICE
officials said.

Most of the people detained are from Mexico, but others are from Guatemala,
Ecuador, Honduras and El Salvador.

About half of the people detained were released for humanitarian reasons,
ICE said. Those reason include child care and medical situations.

The rest are being held at the Henderson County Detention Center. The county
has a an agreement with ICE to process and hold people accused of
immigration violations.

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