Erika Konig
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Eight kids, no parents: Memphis ICE raid leaves one grandmother with a full house (opens the original)
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This story was produced in collaboration with the Institute for Public Service Reporting. This house is teeming with children — kids who lost their parents in an ICE raid. Among those arrested at the El Corralón restaurant and bar last month were two sisters from Central America. Combined, they had eight children, ages one through 16. After the women were taken into custody, their children are now living with their abuela, or grandmother. “The kids often ask for their mom, and they ask why she i
More than 120 detained in Memphis ICE raid, one of the largest nationwide this year (opens the original)
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Earlier this week, ICE agents raided a night spot in Memphis that is popular with many Latino residents and detained more than a hundred and twenty people. Officials say they had a warrant to search for drugs and illegal gambling. Erika Konig with the Institute for Public Service Reporting and member station WKNO reports that it was one of the agency's largest mass arrests this year. ERIKA KONIG, BYLINE: It was close to 1 a.m. Sunday when agents flooded into El Corralon, a restaurant and bar in
"Screaming for their children": Inside the Memphis ICE raid (opens the original)
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This story is produced in collaboration with the Institute for Public Service Reporting. It was close to one a.m. on Sunday, Aug. 31, when state and federal agents swarmed into a Memphis nightclub frequented by Hispanic residents. “We were sitting at the bar, with a friend,” said an employee who asked to remain anonymous. “And suddenly they said, ‘Hands up!’ and that we were all under arrest.” What happened that night at El Corralón, a restaurant and bar in the Berclair-Grahamwood area, would s
Advocates pressure private air terminal to stop ICE flights (opens the original)
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A private air terminal connected to a prominent Memphis family is being used by federal authorities to transport ICE detainees out of the Midsouth. Now, activists are pressuring the the Wilson family to stop the flights. On Tuesday, nearly two dozen immigrant rights activists lined up along Winchester Road, across from Wilson Air Center. As a white bus with tinted windows drove past the crowd, demonstrators waved signs written in Spanish with supportive messages such as “AMIGOS No Estan Solos,”
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