Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance is joined by the Mississippi Center for Justice, the Mississippi ACLU, the Mississippi NAACP branch, and others to protest recent ICE raids targeting immigrant workers. Mississippi has never been a hotbed for immigration advocacy, despite a growing immigrant population working in its food processing and hospitality industries. And within 24 hours, monetary donations to one of the state’s primary immigrant organizations, the Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance, had reached six-figure status. “Right now we have about 55 attorneys and organizations working with us, so we’ve got a big crew.”“Laws are passed to manipulate labor, not help immigrants. “Laws are passed to manipulate labor, not help immigrants.