Workers with Mississippi's Child Protection Services are still searching for children who are without their parents after immigration raids.
JACKSON, Miss. – Immigration officials raided seven food processing plants in Mississippi last week, arresting hundreds of suspected undocumented workers – including the parents of young children.
U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi Mike Hurst's office indicated it believed all children were reunited with at least one parent.Ankle monitors: ICE used informants to plan immigration raids where 680 people were arrested Monday morning, Hurst said CPS Commissioner Jeff Dickinson informed him he had not received calls about children without their parents.
The safety checks are ongoing because Child Protection Services workers have not been able to find some of the children who were brought to their attention, Brandon said. CPS shared the safety checklist with county offices and volunteer groups in the impacted communities. If the situation warrants, she said, the agency can provide temporary foster care for children who have no one to care for them while their parents are detained.
Workers at Morton's Koch Foods plant said mostly Latino employees were rounded up for questioning and taken away by the busload. Homeland Security investigations agents will look at evidence and present it to Hurst's office for possible criminal prosecutions, he said.Hurst agreed that they elicited sympathy.
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