Illegal Immigrants Arrested In Largest ICE Raid In A Decade, Nearly 700 Arrested
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🗓️ 8 August 2019
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Illegal Immigrants Arrested In Largest ICE Raid In A Decade, Nearly 700 Arrested. Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducted massive raids in Mississippi targeting 7 food processing companies. Trump has repeatedly talked about impending raids and we have seen increasing rhetoric in the cultural debate over the issue of impending ICE Raids. In another story we learned that ICE tried to search a shelter and was turned away without a warrant.
While the twitterverse sees the conversation focus on the timing, far left accusations of Trump targeting all immigrants and not just illegal immigrants takes center stage meanwhile the real controversy brewing is how to assist the young children of the illegal immigrants.
Following the raids many children were unaware their parents would not be coming to pick them up and were left stranded. Journalists filmed the children crying and begging for their parents.
Democrats have increasingly embraced open borders rhetoric and called for the decriminalization of undocumented border crossings but most Americans oppose these ideas. Ocasio-Cortez is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America who recently called for open borders, but if most Americans oppose this how do we help the kids?
While leaving the children unattended is not the appropriate response, neither is open borders.
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| 0:00.0 | From NPR, Mississippi immigration raids lead to arrests of hundreds of workers, 680 to be exact. |
| 0:07.6 | Seven different food processing plants were targeted, nearly 100 illegal immigrants were arrested per plant, |
| 0:13.4 | and this may be the largest ice raid in nearly a decade. |
| 0:18.1 | Now in the culture war sense, the conversation is around the targeting of immigrants, |
| 0:22.8 | Trump's bigotry, and the timing of the raid saying it was insensitive and wrong, |
| 0:27.3 | to do this just after what happened in El Paso. |
| 0:30.3 | Never mind the fact that the APS reported, these raids were planned months in advance, |
| 0:34.7 | and Trump has been tweeting about ice raids for a long time. |
| 0:38.2 | We know Trump has been targeting people for deportation and working on border security. |
| 0:43.2 | But many people are questioning why Trump would do it now, and another story from Politico suggests |
| 0:47.7 | the Trump administration is focused on immigration as a whole and not just illegal immigration, |
| 0:53.6 | except it's kind of what we've been hearing for a long time. |
| 0:56.4 | Even though Trump can say illegal immigrant over and over again, |
| 0:59.4 | many people on the left remove the word illegal and blend illegal immigrants with immigrants, |
| 1:03.8 | and it makes the whole issue very very confusing. |
| 1:06.0 | But let's set aside the complete nonsense that is the political bickering and look at the actual problem |
| 1:11.6 | that we're facing now following these raids. |
| 1:14.2 | Many of these illegal immigrants had children in the US. |
| 1:17.0 | They came out of school and their parents were nowhere to be seen. |
| 1:20.1 | Whatever your opinion is, this is a problem. |
| 1:22.1 | Some of these kids, I believe most of them are American citizens because they were born here. |
| 1:26.3 | So what do you do? |
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