Yesterday at 5pm Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) went into Rhode Island courthouses and rounded up 31 cleaning employees who were also illegal immigrants. This comes on the heals of a dispute between the cleaners and their contractor, he was apparently not paying wages and they were beginning to organize.

I’m sure it’s only coincidence that they were all rounded up after they started to organize and ask for their proper payment. Especially since they they were working in State run buildings - which would suggest the state probably didn’t have a problem with their working.

You can see a television news report about the protests that followed the raid here

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