>> You all probably remember, 680 people were arrested yesterday in Mississippi during the
largest immigration raid in the past 10 years in the US.
Today and I exposed ICE excuse me, spokesperson said that 300 of the people arrested have
been releazed from custody.
Spokesperson Brian Cox says that about 30 people were released at the plants and about
270 others were released from the military hangar where they had been brought after the
raids to be processed.
He did say those 300 or so people will have their day in federal court at a later date.
Officials had said Wednesday they would release detainees who met certain conditions, such
as pregnant women or those who hadn't faced immigration proceedings previously.
Also today though, we're getting an even closer look at just how this affected so many people,
specifically families and children of those taken into custody.
Take a look at this.
>> For your heart.
Let my parents leave me here with everybody else please.
My dad didn't do nothing, he's not a criminal.
>> Worst thing ever to see, that's a, it makes me choked up, that's Magdalina and I've seen
it three times.
That's Magdalena Gomez Gregorio she is 11 years old.
You saw her there 11 years old, begging for her dad's release.
He was one of the nearly 700 people picked up during these rates.
And just so it was actually the first day of school for a lot of kids in Mississippi
and because of the raids that MIT many of those kids ended the school day with no one
to pick them up.
No one home when they got off the bus babies left in daycare in some instances.
Cliff Johnson is the director of the MacArthur Justice Center.
And he said, I've been getting calls, and I've been hearing stories about children who
went to their first day of school today and whose parents were hauled off, and how the
government did not make accommodations for those situations.
I'm gonna show you more of what he says.
But take a look at this video we have of children finding out that one or both of their parents
were not gonna to be home when they got there.
I'm gonna keep telling you what Cliff said here while you, just take a look at that.
He said federal officials are telling schools to bring children back to school if they arrive
home and their parents are not there.
He said he's concerned about what will happen to children who have no legal parents or guardians.
Say no one has told me this, but you think about it, it is not too far-fetched to think
that if the government determines that the parents of these kids are undocumented that
it is very possible that these children will either be detained themselves or taken into
custody of the state.
A local news reporter Alex Love he tweeted out some pictures also writing children of
those arrested in Wednesday's ICE and that's what you're gonna see in these photos.
The ICE raids near Force Mississippi are being put up in a local gym tonight by neighbors
and strangers many are left scared and crying after coming home from school and being locked
out without their parents, donated food and drinks are being provided.
A woman named Diane actually asked for her last name to be withheld for obvious reasons.
She said that she had to pick up her fiance's children from school, because both her fiance
and her fiance's ex-wife had been picked up during these raid at their jobs.
She said, he was trying to make a better life for his children.
You see these kids hurting and crying, knowing their parents aren't coming home soon.
I've seen that all day, people are freaking out.
>> So Tom Homan is now a Fox News contributor.
He is a former acting director of ICE,and he went on Fox News and said quote, the blame
needs to be placed on the father, referring to that 11-year old girl who was crying.
He said, he should have took better action to protect his family.
>> Come on.
>> That's who these guys are.
And you wonder why AOC says abolish ICE, that's the guy who led ICE until recently.
Of course being the vicious guy that he is, Fox News is, that's perfect, let's hire him
as a contributor.
So they see this, and they go, good, they had it coming.
>> We have people who commit serious financial felonies, and judges allow them to stay home,
or they stagger if their wife is arrested also or charged or convicted, they staggered
their jail sentences so that someone can be home with the kids.
So that they give them time to report to prison.
So that they cannot wrap up their businesses, and this is ridiculous.
>> Yeah, I mean, what we see- >> You'll put kids in jeopardy.
>> Absolutely, I mean, what we see systematically across the board is the criminalization and
punitive, and cruel, heartless treatment of those most vulnerable.
Those most vulnerable, right, because they are a political scapegoat, right, in this
attempt to build a populous racist movement.
I think it's really rich that it says in the story, that the 300 of the 680 people that
were released, were release for humanitarian factors.
But it also speaks to something else which I think is really interesting, the incredible
incompetence of ICE's actions and activities.
I've read various sort of studies and analyses that show that ICE is often wrongfully detaining
people through false positive identification at times kind of silly into my work using
AI facial recognition technology.
That's scanning mugshot databases, which are all black and brown because black and brown
people are locked up in this country, and identify these people as criminals.
So incompetence, the absolute opposite of humanitarian action, and the systematic treatment
of those most marginalized and those most vulnerable in our on our society as scapegoats
which has really, really world effects.
It's actually just personally infuriating to me.
>> So, I want to make two points about that.
One is just on a personal level I'd be screwed if they're using facial recognition because
even before I started this show and people started recognizing me through that, a thousand
times, hey, you look like my cousin.
It looked like thousands guys' cousins.
>> Yes >> So I mean God knows what the guys who look
like me would get picked up for, and that I would get picked up for their actions.
>> Well, Amazon's actually been selling facial recognition technology to ICE, and Google's
involved in that game as well.
So it's important to understand how our corporations, even our ones that use liberal discourses,
are actually part of this sinister game.
>> Right, and then to your second point, the CEOs, are they gonna get arrested?
They're the ones that didn't commit violation, they committed hundreds of violations, right?
Cuz they're the ones that employed the 680 people.
Now to be fair, the Trump administration, they did arrest one owner in a raid in Tennessee,
so I think that happened last year.
So I would love to see that happen, and I think conservatives would love to see that
happen.
Because they're not Republican politicians that get their money from those kinda business
owners, they are the guys who are actually mad about immigration and taking their jobs.
Well, the guys who made the decision to give the jobs to the undocumented immigrants and
not you guys was the CEO or the owner of the company.
So Koch Foods is not related to Koch Brothers, but they're one of the largest private companies
in the country, they're one of the largest poultry companies in the country, are they
gonna arrest the founder?
Are the gonna arrest the owner, the CEO?
Curious to see because if they do do that, and this is where it gets inconvenient.
Donald Trump was employing dozens of undocumented immigrants, so and then we just found out
last year, and he said, golly gee, I didn't know that they were evading the E-verify system.
Trump property systematically for years on end, in fact decades on end.
You'd have to arrest Donald Trump if you were gonna do that.
That's why they leave the rich alone and they punish the people with the least amount of
power.
I'm the CEO so I better be careful what I wish for, right?
So I get all that, right?
The only thing that I am saying is, if you're gonna arrest the 680 guys,
>> Right.
>> Well, then you should be principled, and actually arrest the guy who hired them, cuz
he's the one breaking the law the most.
>> Like, why didn't they raid his office, as well, that day?
>> Right.
>> Yeah, I mean, okay.
>> But, to me this speaks to how immigrant workers have two different purposes and they
are pawns in different games.
On the one hand, they are forms of cheap labor that help big corporations and help people
make money with pennies on the dollar.
On the other hand, they are a political category to be exploited and harmed and traumatized
to build this racist movement.
It’s taken over the country.
>> Yeah, this had been in the works for a year.
A huge thing that was simply a scare tactic.
And just a day after a man targeted Latin Americans, targeted Mexican people specifically
and shot and killed them in El Paso, you would think somebody would be you know what, this
week is not the week.
Let's push this back a little bit.
I would hope there would be multiple people who would say, we shouldn't do this at all,
it's horrendous.
But we don't have that, but there was just nobody even smart enough to say we can't do
this this week.
You know what I mean?
>> Yeah.
>> Look what just happened in El Paso, we can't do this cuz it's really just a scare
tactic anyway.
We're gonna end up rounding up people who are legal citizens of the US, legal residents
just showing up and barricading a massive business and just putting people in buses.
This was just for show.
>> By the way, with weapons.
>> Right.
>> They're law enforcement.
>> Well, angry and violent people who are domestic terrorists can see what they're doing
as an extension of
this policy.
>> Yeah.