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LONG INVESTIGATION. IT'S SAID TO BE LARGEST EVER ONE DAY ROUND UP OF UNDOCUMENTED WORKERS IN MISSISSIPPI. HISTORIC ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION ARRESTS IN MISSISSIPP THE LARGEST SINGLE STATE IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT OPERATION IN OUR NATIONS HISTORY FEDERAL ICE AGENTS ARRESTED 680 UNDOCUMENTED WORKERS WEDNESDAY AT SEVEN DIFFERENT CHICKEN PROCESSING PLANTS ACROSS CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI. US ATTORNEY MIKE HURST SAID THOSE TAKEN INTO CUSTODY ARE ALL IN THE COUNTRY ILLEGALL NOW WHILE WE ARE A NATION OF IMMIGRANTS MORE THAN THAT WE ARE FIRST AND FOREMOST A NATION OF LAWS. WEDNESDAY'S ARRESTS COMES AFTER A YE LONG FEDERAL INVESTIGATION BY HOMELAND SECURITY AND ICE. THE CHICKEN PLANTS TARGETED ARE IN CANTON, CARTHAGE, MORTON PELAHATCHI SEBATOPOL AND WALNUT GROVE. I DO KNOW WE HAVE A LOT OF IMMIGRANTS IN CANTON I DON'T KNOW IF THEY'RE LEGAL OR ILLEGAL. THE ILLEGAL ALIENS WERE LOADED ONTO BUSES AND TAKEN TO THOMPSON FIELD IN FLOWOOD TO BE PROCESSED. AGENTS TOOK AWAY DOZENS OF WORKERS FROM THE PECO PLANT IN CANTON. SOME SAY KIDS SAW THEIR PARENTS ARRESTED AND TAKEN TO JAIL.. VERY HARD TO SEEING MANY KIDS CRY SCREAM FOR THEIR LOVE ONES BECAUSE THEY'RE GONE THEY DON'T KNOW WHEN THEY WILL SEE THEM AGAIN WORKERS AT THE MORTON PLANT SAY THE ARRESTS COULD PUT THEM OUT OF WORK. THEY BLAME PRESIDENT DONALD TRUM THEY NEED TO GET HIS A OUT OF OFFICE I GET THEM OUT OF OFFICE IT'LL BE BETTER CAUSE HE THE REASON THEY'RE SENDING THEM BACK OVER THERE SO IF THEY GET HIM OUT OF OFFICE IT WILL BE EVEN BETTER AGAIN AUTHORITIES SAY THEY ARE ENFORCING IMMIGRATION LAWS AND THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP IS NOT DIRECTING THEM TO DO ANYTHING ROSS ADAMS 16 WAPT NEWS. JACKSON'S MAYOR WEIGHING-IN ON TH

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Dozens of immigrant workers have been released a day after being detained in the largest immigration raid in a decade in the United States.U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officials said 680 people were arrested in Wednesday's raids. About 30 of those detained were released Wednesday on humanitarian grounds and another 270 were released Thursday after being processed by Homeland Security agents at the National Guard base in Pearl, officials with the U.S. Department of Justice said. The detainees were returned to where they were taken into custody, DOJ officials said. Homeland Security officials said the people detained Wednesday were asked if they had children at school or at child care that needed to be picked up. Agents offered cellphones to the detainees so they could make arrangements for the care of their children, DOJ officials said. "In addition, (Homeland Security Investigations) had liaison officers working with school districts to facility that process," DOJ officials said in a news release. "Based on these procedures, it is believed that all children were with at least one of their parents as of (Wednesday) night." Peco officials confirmed Homeland Security agents were at the company's facilities in Bay Springs, Canton and Sebastopol. The Canton and Bay Springs plants reopened Thursday."We adhere strongly to all local, state and federal laws including utilizing the government-based E-Verify program which screens new hires through the Social Security Administration as well as the Department of Homeland Security for compliance," Peco officials said in a statement.Family members of those detained can call ICE’s toll-free detainee locator hot line for information about an individual’s detention location and status, as well as information about the removal process. This hotline operates in English and Spanish. The phone number is 1-888-351-4024.