About two-thirds of Michael Bianco Inc.'s 500 employees, mostly women, were detained Tuesday by immigration officials for possible deportation as illegal aliens. As a result, many children weren't picked up from day care or school.
Corinn Williams, director of the Community Economic Development Center of Southeastern Massachusetts, estimated about 100 children were left with baby sitters or caretakers.
"We're continuing to get stories today about infants that were left behind," she said Wednesday. "It's been a widespread humanitarian crisis here in New Bedford."
Francesco Insolia, 50, and three top managers were arrested after 300 federal agents raided Michael Bianco Inc. Authorities allege that Insolia oversaw "sweatshop" conditions so he could meet the demands of $91 million in U.S. military contracts.
U.S. Attorney Michael Sullivan accused Insolia of exploiting the illegals to maximize his profits on the military contracts to make backpacks and safety vests for soldiers.
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Is this what Bush's immigration reforms looks like? Leave it to the States? If this is the best that individual States can come up with, then it has to stop now.
I don't have the answers to real immigration reform, but until we do these sorts of measures will cause harm to innocent children and place them in questionable hands. Where will they go? Foster homes, wards of the State? I suspect most were born here in the United States, and even though there are some that would strip them of them citizenship, they are currently citizens and have rights, too.
This is not the first story to come out like this, but I see them increasing, and making more problems and solving none. People tell your Congress member....this is not the way.