In 1927, record-breaking heavy rains submerged part of Mississippi in water. The historic flooding of the Mississippi River ravaged homes and destroyed businesses, especially farmland. Farmers who had enjoyed decades of success faced utter destruction by an act of God. And in their time of desperation, black people were their saving grace.
For this backbreaking, grueling labor, the workers were forced to live in concentration camps on the levee and paid $1 per day. An inequitable account would argue that black workers enjoyed the paying jobs and free housing, but, in actuality, they suffered subhuman living conditions and were forced at gunpoint to remain in the Mississippi Delta.
The headlines across the nation immediately focused on the immigrant status of those who were seized from the targeted seven chicken processing plants. While those alarming reports generated tremendous focus on the heinous nature of these raids and horrific separation of parents from their children, they ignored the critical role of the company owners.
Instead, people who contribute to the economy of our state and nation were criminalized and left without a means to gain the citizenship they so desperately seek to keep their families safe. ICE officials have attempted to quell the community outcry against their cruelty by claiming that approximately 300 of the originally detained people were released to provide children with at least one parent.
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