Georgia AFL-CIO president Yvonne Brooks called the raid "politically motivated harassment" while local unions provided the informant. Why are unions split on immigration raids?
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Brooks condemned the raid as targeting "immigrant Georgians as they try to earn an honest living," but local construction unions were frustrated that only 12 of 130 subcontractors were Georgia-based....
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