ICE Mississippi Raid That Saw 680 Workers Arrested Took Place On First Day Of School, Causing Chaos

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

As Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents swept through a series of worksites across Mississippi on Wednesday, arresting hundreds of unsuspecting workers in what is believed to be the largest single-state immigration enforcement operation in modern U.S. history, the children of many of those workers would have been starting their first day of school.

In fact, many parents detained by ICE in Wednesday's raids, which saw 680 workers arrested across seven food processing plants in six cities, would have likely had a busy morning dropping their children off for the fresh start of a new school year before showing up to work, unaware that they would be leaving in the hands of ICE.

With parents no longer able to pick their children up from school, students in towns like Jackson, where children had their first day of school, according to school board calendars, were left distraught as they learned that their moms and dads had been detained.

Photos captured by local media and shared on social media show children crying into their hands, while others appear to sit quietly, waiting to find out what their families' fates will be.

"It was their first day of school," wrote Natalie Montelongo, the national political director for 2020 presidential candidate Julián Castro, in a tweet. "There are no words for this intentional cruelty."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ice-mississippi-raid-that-saw-680-workers-arrested-took-place-on-first-day-of-school-causing-chaos-for-children/ar-AAFwtYl?li=BBnb7Kz

Republican family values.

[enough]

1. Pure deliberate cruelty. Sadistic evil. NT

[bronxiteforever]

5. +1

[FraDon]

9. This has the familiar, sulphurous stench of Immigration Czar

Stephen Miller.

[barbtries]

11. yep.

it gets worse.

[Hortensis]

13. You probably haven't thought this through. I couldn't work

for ICE, not before, much less now, and despise those who haven't quit. (Some have.) The cruelty and evil are real.

But the timing of this for when the children were in the care of the school district is neither.

[enough]

23. Ok thanks. You might have found a less patronizing way to

say that. (Or maybe you couldn’t.). But you’re right that I hadn’t thought of the idea that this thing was planned out with consideration for doing the least amount of damage possible while doing this. I find that hard to believe, but .....

[GETPLANING]

16. The cruelty is the point

[spanone]

2. Inflicting the maximum amount of pain on orders from the potus...

just a guess

[bronxiteforever]

4. +1

[bronxiteforever]

3. Kick and recommend for visibility of this evil

[Iliyah]

6. Are they going to put the children in

concentration camps? Seems like that is a profit making business.

Pure evil.

[AlexSFCA]

15. in for profit foster homes probably

the ones who were born here but others - concentration camps probably

[Pacifist Patriot]

7. ...

[Baitball Blogger]

8. Now, if only these closings can quickly trickle

Down to the consumer. It will all come full circle.

[haele]

10. Reading the article, some workers have already been released.

I suspect those were workers with legit(looking) visas/I-9s and/or no criminal records?
The others are being held pending background checks, according to the article.

Whether or not there were undocumented workers there, it's obvious this was a "you watch out, you're not welcome here" raid targeting hard working brown skinned people.

Koch foods is a corporation (they have a DECA contract and provide food to the DoD agencies) that competes with Perdue farms when it comes to poultry; so I'm pretty sure this was a shakedown or disruption move, and no "owners" were put in jail.

Haele

[Hortensis]

12. Viciously cruel no matter when done. But this timing was INTENDED

to leave the children under the protection of the school district and county officials, kept at their schools and watched over by school staff until safe disposition was established.

Contrast that with picking up parents while the children were still out on vacation. Many would have been with relatives and babysitters, but many would have been home alone (which may have changed since filling out the school papers) or out wandering and playing wherever.

And, again, let's remember, this exact thing has been happening to American children, documented or otherwise, ALL OUR LIVES. Just on smaller scales. Awareness may be new to those of us without undocumented relatives or friends, but probably shouldn't be, and certainly is not to the local authorities who've always had to deal with it.

[stopdiggin]

14. thanks. a perspective I hadn't considered (nt)

[Igel]

20. It's been happening not just because of ICE.

When authorities come in and detain a parent, the kids aren't arrested--whether it's for being here illegally, drug possession, fraud, theft, or murder.

When my cousin and his girlfriend were arrested back in the late '70s their little girl was picked up by child protective services when neighbors realized she had nobody to take care of her; she was put in some home, and it took months to get her transferred to the custody of my cousin's mother.

A decade later, a different girlfriend, a different daughter, same process. (My cousin was like that. 3 kids, three women, several prison sentences, then he finally fatally ODed.)

This kind of thing happens every day, kids left without somebody to take care of them besides the state--obviously always heartless cruelty, I guess. Oddly, nobody seems to recognize it when it's run of the mill and not really politicized.

In fact, when some (R) political worker was picked up and his kids were caught in a picture crying, there was a fair amount of glee. (And, thankfully, some pushback against the gleeful miscreants who apparently like children's suffering if they have the wrong parents.)

[Stonepounder]

17. I think we need to change the name of ICE to SS. n/t

[lpbk2713]

18. It was planned that way to scare hell out of the children.

The heartless bastids wanted to have a little perverse fun.
And they thought it would please Trump.

[rocktivity]

19. It was a planned way to please the hell out of his supporters

by victimizing defenseless non-whites -- a tactic that has worked so far. But something happened President Duh Donald didn't count on: a leftist wingnut retaliating against a rightist wingnut.


rocktivity

[The Bopper]

21. Trumpolini

The goal wasn’t to enforce the law, it’s to cause as much pain to as many people who don’t look white enough. If the goal was to fix something, the people who hired them would have been arrested and the owners detained also. Koch industries???

[dalton99a]

22. The timing was intentional.