This country simply does Not have the capacity to keep in detention the ‘millions’ Trump said he’d pick up and ship away…
Busloads of immigrants dropped off
Outside the Morton plant on Wednesday, an 11-year-old girl sobbed and begged an officer for a chance to see her mom as bystanders tried to comfort her.
“Please, can I just see my mother?” the girl cried out in video broadcast live on Facebook.
Elizabeth Iraheta told CNN she shared the video so people would see what was happening at the plant, where she said she’s worked legally for 19 years. It was devastating, Iraheta said, to see family and friends suffering “just for coming to work hard in this country, and to see so many families separated.”
The video later shows an officer noting that the mother is being processed “because she doesn’t have papers to be here legally,” then later telling the crying girl that her mother would be released and wouldn’t be deported. Hours later, witnesses said, the girl’s mother was released.
Friends, coworkers and family watch as U.S. immigration officials raid a plant in Morton, Mississippi.
By Wednesday night, ICE spokesman Bryan Cox told CNN that some detainees were still being processed, but some had been released.
“Any suggestion that all persons are going to be detained is not correct,” Cox said.
Videos shared on social media showed busloads of immigrants returning to one plant’s parking lot in the early morning hours as onlookers cheered. One witness said she thought about 20 people had been released from custody.
Authorities haven’t publicly spoken about what sites were targeted, citing a pending criminal investigation. They’ve also declined to answer questions about whether any employers had been arrested or would face charges.
A senior immigration official with knowledge of the investigation told CNN that ICE used confidential informants employed at several of the raided food processing plants to identify managers or supervisors who knew they were hiring undocumented workers. In some cases, immigration enforcement received audio and video recordings.
CNN has reached out to the food processing plants for comment.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stepped up worksite enforcement since President Donald Trump took office, conducting a number of large-scale raids at food-processing plants and gardening centers in recent years…
Update…
Federal authorities have released 300 of the nearly 700 workers detained in the Mississippi immigration raids on Wednesday, according to officials.
“Approximately 30 detained aliens were released yesterday on humanitarian grounds at the individual sites,” said the US Attorney’s Office for the state’s Southern District in a press release Thursday.
“Another 270 detained aliens were released after being processed by HSI [Homeland Security Investigations] at the National Guard base in Pearl and returned to the place where they were originally encountered.”….
Wouldn’t it make more sense to arrest the plant owners?After all they are active accomplices to all this “illegal” immigration.
Wonder why these “conservatives” who are so outraged by all this don’t advocate laws which would accomplish that?
Don’t hold your breath.
This actually happened during Obama’s term also as he tried to get a deal from GOPer’s…
There was NO deal….
Remember the plant owners make MONEY and who does the GOPer’s rep in Congress?
I assume that this ‘detained ‘ people will go back to work or be replaced with new undocumented workers…
The piece goes through lengths to say the detainee’s where uncovered by investigations?
Of course not Jack. The plant owners will get a tax break for their “inconvenience”