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  • Meat plant arrests near Amarillo leave families of 100 children separated

    12/14/2006 8:15:55 AM PST · by WestTexasWend · 111 replies · 2,369+ views
    AVALANCHE-JOURNAL AUSTIN BUREAU ^ | Thursday, December 14, 2006 | ENRIQUE RANGEL
    First it was the chaos. Then it was the confusion as to who was arrested and where they would be taken. Now, the Spanish-speaking residents of Cactus, Dumas and other neighboring communities who escaped Tuesday's raid because they either are here legally or do not work at the Swift meat plant, face an even bigger problem: what is going to happen to the more than 100 children whose parents were rounded up and arrested? "Right now the children are being taken care of by relatives or friends of those who were deported," said Orlando Gajardo, spokesman for the St. Peter...