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Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp smiles as he stands next to a Rivian electric truck during a ceremony to announce that the electric truck maker plans to build a $5 billion battery and assembly plant east of Atlanta projected to employ 7,500 workers, on Dec. 16, 2021, in Atlanta.
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House Homeland Security Committee chairman, U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., questions Jere Miles, Special Agent in Charge of the Homeland Security Investigations for Immigration and Customs Enforcement with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, unseen, during a field hearing at Tougaloo College in Jackson, Miss. on Thursday about the Aug. 7 ICE raids in Mississippi which resulted in nearly 700 workers being arrested at seven chicken processing plants.
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In this Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019, file photo, handcuffed workers are escorted into a bus for transportation to a processing center following a raid by U.S. immigration officials at a Koch Foods Inc., plant in Morton, Miss. Three months after immigration agents arrested 680 Latino workers in a massive workplace sting at seven Mississippi chicken processing plants, a congressional committee plans a hearing into the raids and their effects, Thursday, Nov. 7, in Jackson, Miss.
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In this image released by the U.S. Coast Guard shows a crew member of the cargo ship Golden Ray as he is helped off the capsized ship Monday, Sept. 9, 2019 off St. Simons Island, Ga. A fire broke out aboard the ship early Sunday, listing it to the side and blocking the shipping channel.
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Business continues at this Koch Foods Inc., plant in Morton, Miss., Thursday, Aug. 8, 2019, as a truck loaded with chickens passes the plant following Wednesday's raid by U.S. immigration officials. In an email Thursday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Bryan Cox said more than 300 of the 680 people arrested Wednesday have been released from custody.
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