Downtown Stillmore. This Georgia town, where Glenmary has been reaching out to poultry workers, is now all but vacant after immigration raids.

NEW! Weekend America aired a 10-minute story on Oct. 14 on the effect of immigration raids on the town of Stillmore, Ga., and the spillover of immigrants into Western Kentucky. Father Vic Subb was interviewed in both locales, and provided commentary on how he sees his work with undocumented workers.

Background: Since the publication of the article by Father Vic Subb in the Summer 2006 Glenmary Challenge ("Still More to Do in Stillmore, Ga."), unrelated events have unfolded in Stillmore which have had serious consequences for the town and its residents and which are attracting national media attention.

Not long after the publication of the Glenmary Challenge story, but unrelated to it, Department of Homeland Security agents began rounding up and deporting hundreds of immigrants living and working in Stillmore. Many of these immigrants were served by Glenmary's mission based in Swainsboro, Ga.

Other media attention:

A Sept. 15 Associated Press story ("Immigration Raid Makes a Ghost Town") reported that this Georgia community of about 1,000 has become little more than a ghost town since Sept. 1, when federal agents began rounding up illegal immigrants.

A detailed account of what has happened in Stillmore over the past few months can be read in an Oct. 3 story carrried by the Christian Science Monitor which quotes Glenmary Father Vic Subb: "Crackdown on immigrants empties a town and harden views."

National Public Radio's All Things Considered aired a story Oct. 4 titled, "Customs Raids Cull Half of Ga. Town's Plant Workers" for which Father Vic provided background information.

And CBS's 60 Minutes has also contacted Father Vic and Father John Brown for help on a two-part story they are planning to air sometime in November.