Children of undocumented immigrants arrested in Mississippi rely on strangers for food and shelter

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Children of undocumented immigrants arrested in Mississippi rely on strangers for food and shelter
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Posted: Aug 7, 2019 / 10:52 PM UTC / Updated: Aug 7, 2019 / 10:52 PM UTC


Following this massive illegal immigration enforcement many children of those arrested across the state are now left homeless with nowhere to go.

12 News Alex Love went out to Forest, Mississippi where community leaders are coming together to put them up for the night in a gym.

These children who some are as young as toddlers were relying on neighbors and even strangers to pick them up outside their homes after school and drive them to a community fitness center where people tried to keep them calm. But many kids could not stop crying for mom and dad.

Fighting back tears 11 year old Magdalena Gomez Gregorio expressed to us her devastation being alone without her dad.

“Government please show some heart,” Gregoria cried. “Let my parent be free and everyone else please don’t leave the child with cryness and everything.

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This came after ice agents raided several food processing plants in Mississippi arresting 680 people believed to be in the country illegally.

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[samnsara]

1. ICE must go!

[raccoon]

2. I was wondering about that. Nt

[TEB]

3. This is evil and cruel

I am so angry

[democratisphere]

4. THIS is the result of a failed human who is also a failed President.

America deserves better than a total failure. drumpf is an outrage and disgrace to humanity.

Thankful for those protecting, sheltering, supporting and feeding these children.

[Arkansas Granny]

5. ICE had to have realized there would be children affected by this.

Did they expect them to live on the streets like stray dogs? Do they have a plan to take care of these kids and reunite them with their families? I wonder how many of these children are American citizens.

I know that ICE doesn't function as a child protective agency, but they should have coordinated this action with other agencies, whether federal, state or local to care for these children.

[Hortensis]

6. This has been happening for a very long time, just usually

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in far smaller, invisible to media (same-old, same-old) numbers. We're from L.A., and sweeps of workplaces, bus stops, stops of people on the street, have always been going on, though seemingly mostly just to show RWers the government "was doing something," never anything like today's ethnic cleansing.

This isn't just dreadful for the children once their parents disappear and they're left behind, it's the nightmare those old enough to understand have always lived in real, constant fear of.

Several million American children have undocumented parents, and around half are citizens. My impression has always been that local authorities vary in the competence of their responses, but local communities where they live normally act, both authorities and private citizens and groups, because these are normal events. Many have had it happen to their families, to their neighbors. Children go to school and tell what what happened to people they know, or that it just happened to them. Fortunate children still have one parent or other relatives who usually in past have been able to get custody.

And fwiw, it's not only happening to Hispanic children either. TrumpCo has been cracking down on and accelerating deportations of undocumented immigrants from around the planet, including Europeans with children born here, raising fears in their communities.

Our Danish-American grandson's white face shines whitest in every class photo, but his mother, who's lived in the U.S. since she was small and always considered herself American, finally actually got her American citizenship last year after Trump's election caused their son to start worrying and crying that she'd be taken. No one's told him she might not be safe anyway. Although the INS approved her, there is one of the little unimportant irregularities in her paperwork that the Trump admin has been mining millions of records for and using as excuses to deport even naturalized citizens, as well as some who always knew they were citizens until Trump admin found excuse to contest.

[elias7]

7. This is insane!

Should be top story on national news until it’s addressed