US arrests 680 workers in immigration sting before Trump visits El Paso

Operation is largest of its kind in at least a decade and comes after shooting suspect railed against ‘Hispanic invasion’

US immigration officials have raided numerous Mississippi food processing plants and arrested 680 people, mostly Latino workers, in the largest workplace sting in at least a decade.

The Wednesday raids took place just hours before Donald Trump was scheduled to visit El Paso, Texas, the majority-Latino city rocked by the recent mass shooting that left 22 people dead. The suspected gunman was linked to an online screed about a “Hispanic invasion”, in language that echoed Donald Trump’s rhetoric on immigration.

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