A video recorded outside a plant in Morton, Mississippi, showed an 11-year-old girl sobbing and begging an officer for a chance to see her mother as bystanders tried to comfort her.
It was the first day of school in Morton, Mississippi, Wednesday, and many undocumented parents and their children went together to the first morning drop off, said Elizabeth Iraheta. By the end of the day, some of those children were all alone, she said.
US immigration authorities arrested about 680 undocumented immigrants at seven sites in six different cities in Mississippi on Wednesday. The raids are"believed to be the largest single-state immigration enforcement operation in our nation's history," said US Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi Mike Hurst.Officials declined to provide details about what sites had been targeted, citing what they said was an ongoing criminal investigation.
— Alex Love August 8, 2019 William Truly Jr., the mayor of Canton, one of the cities where raids took place, told reporters Wednesday that the arrests are an order of the US, and so he doesn't think there is anything that can be done to stop it."But my main concern is now, what happens to the children?" he told reporters outside a processing plant owned by Peco Foods Inc.
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