The immigration raid at a government-contracted factory last March in New Bedford, Massachusetts, caught national attention with stories of missing parents and children who found themselves abandoned at the end of the school day. Several months later, Immigration and Customs Enforcement seems to be executing several raids on any given day and is more likely to arrest people right in their homes, sometimes in front of their children.

At the end of a particularly sad week of immigration raids, Immigration Orange on Friday revisited what happened in New Bedford and what has happened since. Unfortunately, what has happened since is not much - beyond the deportation of hundreds of workers and a laughable fine of $45,000 to the factory owner who the government says employed undocumented immigrants in sweatshop conditions.