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January 31, 2023
A worker collects parts at SMC, a Japanese pneumatic engineering company factory in Beijing on Jan. 10, 2023. China's trade surplus swelled to a record $877.6 billion in 2022 as exports rose 7% despite weakening U.S. and European demand and anti-virus controls that temporarily shut down Shanghai and other industrial centers.
China's Trade Surplus Swells to $877.6B as Exports Grow
January 13, 2023
Shoppers carry shopping bags down Fifth Avenue, Monday, Dec. 19, 2022, in New York. After a two-year hiatus, holiday procrastinators are back this year, during a holiday season when retailers need them even more. Shoppers have been pulling back on buying and waiting for the best deals as inflation weighs on their shopping habits.
Holiday Procrastinators Are Back in Force. Blame Inflation.
December 23, 2022
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December 20, 2022
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House Homeland Security Committee chairman, U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., questions Jere Miles, Special Agent in Charge of the Homeland Security Investigations for Immigration and Customs Enforcement with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, unseen, during a field hearing at Tougaloo College in Jackson, Miss. on Thursday about the Aug. 7 ICE raids in Mississippi which resulted in nearly 700 workers being arrested at seven chicken processing plants.
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House Democrat Criticizes Chicken Plant Raids
A U.S. House committee chairman said President Trump's administration is selectively enforcing laws to apprehend immigrant workers who are in the U.S. illegally but not prosecute employers.
November 8, 2019
In this Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019, file photo, handcuffed workers are escorted into a bus for transportation to a processing center following a raid by U.S. immigration officials at a Koch Foods Inc., plant in Morton, Miss. Three months after immigration agents arrested 680 Latino workers in a massive workplace sting at seven Mississippi chicken processing plants, a congressional committee plans a hearing into the raids and their effects, Thursday, Nov. 7, in Jackson, Miss.
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House to Hold Hearing on Plant Raids
Hundreds of people remain in custody, with dozens facing federal criminal charges.
November 7, 2019
In this image released by the U.S. Coast Guard shows a crew member of the cargo ship Golden Ray as he is helped off the capsized ship Monday, Sept. 9, 2019 off St. Simons Island, Ga. A fire broke out aboard the ship early Sunday, listing it to the side and blocking the shipping channel.
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Crewmen Pulled Alive from Ship
The rescues followed nearly 36 hours of work after the Golden Ray, a giant ship that carries automobiles, rolled onto its side early Sunday.
September 10, 2019
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Plant Fires Workers Left After Raid
Former workers at PH Food said they'd been abruptly fired, and that the company is withholding pay.
August 15, 2019
Business continues at this Koch Foods Inc., plant in Morton, Miss., Thursday, Aug. 8, 2019, as a truck loaded with chickens passes the plant following Wednesday's raid by U.S. immigration officials. In an email Thursday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Bryan Cox said more than 300 of the 680 people arrested Wednesday have been released from custody.
Operations
Job Fair Held After ICE Raids
While the raids at seven plants were unprecedented, chicken processing facilities are normally plagued by heavy turnover and ravenously seek employees.
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Plants 'Willfully' Used Illegal Workers
Investigators behind the biggest immigration raid in a decade relied on informants inside the plants and data from electronic monitoring bracelets.
August 12, 2019
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Immigration Raids to Have Long-Term Effects
Effects of the largest immigration raid in at least a decade are likely to ripple for years through six Mississippi small towns that host poultry plants.
August 9, 2019
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Immigration Raids Net 680 Arrests at Poultry Plants
The plants' tough processing jobs have mainly been filled by Latino immigrants eager to take whatever work they can get.
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Raids Hit Mississippi Food Plants
Employees filled three buses and were taken to a military hangar to be processed for immigration violations.
August 7, 2019
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Permit Approved for Wood Pellet Plant
Approval came despite objections from environmental groups that the plant would emit too much pollution and have other harmful effects.
July 11, 2019
In this Nov. 16, 2015, file photo, an over view shows a section of the Mississippi Power Co. carbon capture plant in DeKalb, Miss. In late June, Mississippi Power announced it was suspending its lignite coal gasification operation at the Kemper County plant. A variety of problems, economic, governmental and physical, plagued the facility which provided several hundred jobs in an otherwise rural part of the state.
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Failed Power Plant
The company lost $6.4 billion when regulators ordered it to stop building the gasifier.
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