Effect of Raids on Stillmore, Georgia

Trailer parks lie abandoned. The poultryplant is scrambling to replace more than half its workforce.Business has dried up at stores where Mexican laborers once linedup to buy food, beer and cigarettes just weeks ago. This Georgia community of about 1,000 people has become littlemore than a ghost town since Sept. 1, when federal agents beganrounding up undocumented immigrants.

The sweep has had the unintended effect of underscoring just howvital the undocumented immigrants were to the local economy.

Federal agents also swarmed into a trailer park operated byDavid Robinson. Immigrants were handcuffed and taken away.Almost none have returned. Robinson bought an American flag andposted it by the pond out front – upside down, in protest.

“These people might not have American rights, but they’ve damnsure got human rights,” Robinson said. “There ain’t no reason totreat them like animals.” Click here.

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