ICE Detains About 680 Workers in Mississippi Raids
Trump immigration authorities detained about 680 people in Mississippi on Wednesday, according to law enforcement officials. Nearly 600 Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents swept seven different food processing plants in six cities in another show of ethnic cleansing by the Trump administration, this time interrupting a work day.
“The ICE raids are both dehumanizing and ineffective as a tactic for protecting citizens from potential harm,” Jackson, Mississippi, Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba, a Democrat, said in a statement. “The city of Jackson strongly objects to the Trump administration’s ICE raids.”
Domingo Candelaria—a worker at a plant run by poultry processor Koch Foods Inc. in Morton, Mississippi—saw the raids happen. “It was a sad situation inside,” he told the Associated Press.
ICE acting director Matthew Albence said Wednesday that people will either be deported, prosecuted, or released after an immigration court hearing.