(NILC) on their behalf. Despite this, the ICE officials involved had been granted immunity from legal actions, leading to calls from the workers and civil rights groups to lift ICE's immunity for the lawsuit to proceed. The groups would find success two years later when Chief U.S. District Judge Travis R. McDonough published a public appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States to lift the immunity granted to the federal law enforcement officers involved, writing, "Perhaps a higher court will recognize causes of action that more directly address agents’ searches and seizures based on skin color.” By April 2021, the United States Department of Homeland Security urged the Eastern District Court of Tennessee to exclude 41 agents involved in the raid from litigation. A final settlement agreement was made between six former employees of the plant, represented by the SPLC and NILC, and the U.S. government on October 19, 2022. Between the six plaintiffs, the U.S. government would split $475,000 amongst them, and also issued an extra $37,000 for two plaintiffs on individual claims. An additional $150,000 was dispersed evenly for the SPLC and NILC to cover attorney fees and expenses. An additional $550,000 was set for a class settlement fund with the nearly 100 employees of Southeastern Provisions at the time eligible for a $5,000 to $6,000 payment. Final approval for the settlement is planned for February 27, 2023. Southeastern Provisions would restart operations in August 2019 under the leadership of the family of James Brantley. While incarcerated, James Brantley filed and signed a consent order agreeing to give an estimated $610,000 in a three-year period in pay to 150 current and former workers of Southeastern Provisions, most of whom are Hispanic, in July 2020. The United States Department of Labor sued Brantley for failing to properly compensate workers at the slaughterhouse. Brantley would be released in January 2021 from a Montgomery, Alabama work camp. Three years after the events of the raid, Southeastern Provisions encountered another investigation, this time by the Tennessee Occupational Safety and Health Administration, after one of the plant's employees would die from on-site injuries. In film The consequences of the raid for undocumented workers, their families and members of the impacted communities, were documented in After the Raid, a 2019 documentary film by film director Rodrigo Reyes. The film was released on the streaming platform Netflix. References External links Report from U.S.