This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Monday, August 12th, 2019.

I'm Caleb Brown.

The immigration raids undertaken last week

are a show of force of the government's power to quickly and

efficiently steal away people whose only crime is contributing to the U.S. economy, supporting

their children without a government permission slip.

Caught in the crossfire, children, the companies that hired those people,

and a devastated community in Mississippi.

Cato's David Beer comments.

By now I think a lot of people have seen or coverage of the raids, the immigration raids that took place in Mississippi last week and this one little girl has popped up in all over

social media as saying essentially you know why would you do this to my parents

I miss my dad she made I think what what I thought was a fairly reasonable appeal

to the general public to say there's nothing wrong with people

working and having a job. They didn't do anything wrong and yet they've been swept up and are I presume slated for

deportation. So as you look at these raids, and I should mention that the responses that I saw in social media to this little girl were essentially of a flavor of, well, her parents shouldn't have done that.

So what are your thoughts?

Well when you think about this raid you know you think about this little girl and what

she's going through and what you know that the heavy impact on her and then

you think about the bigger picture here about the community that's been impacted by these nearly 700 arrests

that were made by you know the hundreds of other people who you know aren't

going to show up for work tomorrow, the fact that these plants are going to have to close for a period of time at least to deal with the fact that their workforce has now been so disrupted. You have every

school district in the area is reporting hundreds of children not showing up for school, the impact that that's having.

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