Advocates: In Mississippi, ICE Agents Arrest, Tase Migrants, Documented or Not

[TexasTowelie]

Children finished their first day of school with no parents to go home to tonight. Babies and toddlers remained at daycare with no guardian to pick them up. A child vainly searched a workplace parking lot for missing parents.

Those are some of the many stories immigrants' rights advocates told the Jackson Free Press they heard on Wednesday in calls with school officials, coworkers and distressed family members of immigrants whom ICE rounded up in Mississippi today.

On Wednesday morning in Mississippi, the Homeland Security Investigations unit of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, also known as ICE , coordinated with the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi, Mike Hurst, to carry out what they called the "largest single-state worksite enforcement action in (the) nation's history."

At a 2 p.m. press conference, Hurst said they were rounding up undocumented immigrants who are working in the United States or who might have committed some other crime, but was not specific about charges.

Read more: http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2019/aug/07/advocates-mississippi-ice-agents-arrest-tase-migra/

[Recursion]

1. Jesus

What the hell do we do?

[TexasTowelie]

6. You had a primary election the day before.

It was a perfect setup to make a statement without affecting the election.

[Ilsa]

2. What a megafuckup.

ICE had no interest in securing the safety of children. Fuck them. It's events like this that make me want to get on the "Eliminate ICE" bandwagon.

I hope that business owner watches his livelihood crash and burn.

[Baitball Blogger]

4. If I were working for Ice, that's the moment I would have walked.

[gtar100]

3. So many Americans are excited for the opportunity to be cruel.

So many republicans are bleating "they're illegal!" Don't they know that you only get what you give? That what goes around comes around? Lots of people digging deep holes for themselves.

[delisen]

5. Why this facility; why not the chicken factories in GA?

Who makes the decisions about which workplaces to raid?

I don't think they are just randomly throwing darts at a dartboard to make these decisions.

[Recursion]

7. The US Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi

His name is D. Michael Hurst, Jr. You may remember him from such recent hits as "getting his ass stomped in the MS Attorney General election by Democrat Jim Hood".

[delisen]

8. Thanks. nt