680 Undocumented Workers Arrested in Record-Setting Immigration Sweep on the First Day of School [cnn.com]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 8/9/194:00 AM

By Dianne Gallagher, Catherine E. Shoichet and Madeline Holcombe, CNN, August 8, 2019

After immigration authorities rounded up hundreds of workers in a massive sweep at seven Mississippi food processing plants, friends and family members are desperately searching for answers.

A crowd waited outside a plant in Morton, Mississippi, on Thursday morning, hoping authorities would release their loved ones. Many had been by later in the afternoon.
Video footage from CNN affiliates and Facebook live showed children sobbing as they waited for word on what had happened to their parents.

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