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Fear Grips Immigrants After Miss. Plant Raid

Danielle Martinez, 24, of Laurel, Miss., complains Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008, about the unfairness of the immigration raid at the Howard Industries plant in Laurel which netted about 600 suspected illegal immigrants Monday. Martinez was assisting some immigrant families in removing their vehicles from the employee parking lot before they were towed. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

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.

Posted in Immigrant Rights