In yet another major win for immigration enforcement in America, federal agents worked with local police officers and other law enforcement to raid a manufacturing facility in the city of Birmingham, Alabama, with nearly three dozen people arrested during the operation as part of a major and ongoing criminal investigation.
Apparently, it was a collection of federal agents working with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Birmingham who, in conjunction with state and local law enforcement partners in the area, raided the Scholar Craft Plants in Birmingham, serving warrants to crack down on the facility for hiring illegal aliens.
The warrants targeting Scholar Craft Plants were carried out on Tuesday, June 30. Those warrants, and indeed the operation and ongoing criminal investigation generally, were carried out to focus on allegations of the fraudulent use of identities and employment-related documents.
During the operation targeting the plant, 30 illegal aliens were encountered by the ICE, HSI, and law enforcement agents involved in the crackdown on fraudulent identity use, and all were taken into custody so that they can face deportation proceedings and be sent out of the country. Scholar Craft Plants did not comment on the situation.
In a statement on the matter, a spokesperson for ICE said, “We remain committed to working alongside our federal, state, and local law enforcement partners to investigate and address violations that undermine the integrity of our nation’s employment systems and immigration laws.”
The operations targeting illegal immigration in Alabama, particularly in the Birmingham area, are so severe that they have led to immense outcry from local leftists. For example, Chris Isor, with the Birmingham chapter of Democratic Socialists of America, said, “What is unfolding in Minneapolis in Operation Metro Surge is nothing short of a federal occupation.”
“There are reports every day of ICE in Birmingham. They are surrounding us slowly, like a snake, like an anaconda, like a restrictor. And, as a Jewish person, I know a thing or two about the mechanisms of fascism,” said another leftist protesting against ICE, Landon Gerstmann.
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A Black Lives Matter (BLM) protester chimed in too. That was BLM’s Eric Hall, who insisted that the state should shut down both detention centers and prisons generally. “We are tired of seeing our people being killed by the hands of the state. And it must stop. It has to stop,” he said. The BLM protester added, “And so we send a message out to all of those who do not value Black lives, who do not value our identity, that we are going to rise up as a people.”
Still another protester, Diana Isom, a Panamanian migrant, said, “Immigrants are often spoken about as numbers or problems, but we are children who grew up here, parents raising families, workers who show up every day, neighbors.” She added, “We are not outsiders passing through. We are part of the fabric of this country.” So, ICE’s operations in the city appear to be working, as the local left has been driven up the wall by what has so far been done.