Koch Foods announced on Facebook that the company will host a job fair on Monday after many of its workers at its two Mississippi plants were swept up in an immigration raid Wednesday.

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The raids by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement targeted small towns in Mississippi with a workforce made up largely of Latino immigrants. Koch Foods Inc. processing plants in Pelahatchie and Morton were raided as well as PH Food in Morton, Pearl River Foods' plant in Carthage and Peco Foods Inc. plants in Canton, Bay Springs and Sebastopol.

Officials said 680 people were initially detained during Wednesday's operation but more than 300 of those people home by dawn Thursday, with notices to appear before immigration judges, said ICE spokesman Bryan Cox.

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It's unlikely those people will be able to work in the coming months as they await hearings.

The job fair is scheduled from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. at the WIN Job Center in Forest. Applicants will be required to provide two forms of valid identification when applying, the announcement indicated.

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Koch Foods, based in Park Ridge, Illinois, is one of the largest poultry producers in the U.S. and employs about 13,000 people, with operations in Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Illinois, Ohio and Tennessee. The company has no relation to prominent conservative political donors and activists Charles and David Koch.

Although none of the people who may have been responsible for hiring the unauthorized workers have been charged, both ICE and the U.S. Attorney's Office Southern District of Mississippi have said employers are part of their ongoing investigation.

“HSI’s (Homeland Security Investigations) worksite enforcement efforts are equally focused on aliens who unlawfully seek work in the U.S. as well as the employers who knowingly hire them,” HSI New Orleans Special Agent in Charge Jere Miles said in a U.S. Attorney's Office Southern District of Mississippi news release issued after the raids.

Koch Foods said in a statement Thursday that it screens employees through the federal government database E-Verify. Jim Gilliland, company spokesman, also said the company relies on temporary workers vetted through a third-party service.

In 2018, an eight-year legal fight ended with Koch Foods agreeing to pay $3.75 million and other concessions to 11 Hispanic workers to settle two discrimination lawsuits at its Morton plant.

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