Mississippi residents describe the biggest single-state work site immigration enforcement operation as “traumatic” and brace for the ongoing impact after nearly 700 people were arrested. “What I saw was traumatic, painful,” says woman who witnessed a raid
A day after what officials called the biggest single-state work site immigration enforcement operation, Mississippi residents were still shaken by the arrests of“What I saw was traumatic, painful,” Elizabeth Iraheta, who witnessed the raid on a food processing plant where she works in Morton, Mississippi, said Thursday in Spanish in a phone interview. “I’m thinking of the separated families, fathers and mothers deported, children left alone because their parents were arrested.
Iraheta, 49, took a video of the enforcement operation at the Koch Foods processing plant on Wednesday after seeing immigration agents and a helicopter. A 12-year-old girl, Angie, whose mother was detained in the raid, was with Iraheta.06:28 U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst of the Southern District of Mississippi said at a news conference following the raids on Wednesday that the country must uphold the law above all else.
“She just went. Her mom just got on the bus. We took her mom’s documents, OK,” the agent said. “She’s going to be processed, because she doesn’t have papers to be here legally.”
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