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(CNN) The cruelty never stops.

On Wednesday, just hours before President Donald Trump arrived in Texas following the massacre in El Paso, more than 600 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested hundreds of workers — who were believed to be working without proper authorization — across Mississippi. In one day, agents conducted the largest single-state immigration raid in history, rounding up about 680 immigrants.

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Coming less than a week after the El Paso mass shooting, these raids represent the Trump administration's gross insensitivity to the Latino community. These workplace raids are an ineffective, wasteful use of resources. Worst of all, they will result in little besides separating families and traumatizing communities.

The timing of the Mississippi raids was troubling because Latinos across the country are feeling targeted in the wake of the El Paso shooting. Because of their ethnicity, a white supremacist killed 22 people. So, the president could have postponed the raids, as he has done with other enforcement actions before. At his word, ICE would have stood down. Instead, before the Latino victims in Texas are buried, Trump chose to allow the targeting of Latinos by the government.

What's more, while in El Paso the president and his wife posed with an infant who is now an orphan because of the mass shooting. In the photo, reportedly arranged at the request of representatives of the White House, Melania Trump is smiling, while Trump is grinning and giving a thumbs up sign, as though they were at a red-carpet event. This image is beyond offensive, as it was the president's rhetoric that led to the baby's parents being killed. That any president, much less the one who locked up children, and the first lady who wore a "I really don't care do U?" jacket on a prior border visit, would use a child as a prop is repulsive.