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March 5, 2008

Immigration official: We learned from New Bedford raid

BOSTON -- The director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement says the federal agency has learned from the mistakes it made in last year's raid at a New Bedford, Mass., factory in which 361 workers were detained.

Julie Myers said in a visit to Boston earlier today that the agency has made additional humanitarian efforts in subsequent raids.

Since most workers arrested at the Michael Bianco Inc. factory were women with young children, ICE was criticized by immigrant advocates for separating families.

Myers says the agency now gets additional aid from the Department of Immigration's health services to ensure that children are cared for.

Myers was in Boston the day before the one-year anniversary of the New Bedford raid. She says the agency is focused on going after employers of undocumented workers, rather than the workers themselves.

-- The Associated Press

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