2020 presidential candidate and California Sen. Kamala Harris on Sunday called the Trump administration's decision to carry out immigration raids in the wake of two mass shootings a "campaign of terror."

In an interview on NBC's Meet the Press, Harris noted the round-up of 680 suspected undocumented workers at several food processing plants in Mississippi on Wednesday. She believed that Hispanics were specifically targeted because the majority of detained workers were Latino.

"This administration has directed DHS to conduct these raids as part of what I believe is this administration's campaign of terror, which is to make whole populations of people afraid to go to work," Harris said. "Children are afraid to go to school for fear that when they come home, their parents won’t be there.”

Immigration officials called the raids the "largest single-state enforcement action in [the] nation's history."

Pro-immigration leaders condemned what they perceived as poor management by the administration to execute the raids just days after a shooting in El Paso, Texas, where the perpetrator declared in his alleged manifesto that he was specifically attacking "Mexicans."

They also noted that families affected by the raids will be traumatized, pointing to videos circulating on social media that have shown children crying after their parents were sent to Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities around the country.

"We must point out and never condone anyone who uses their power in a way that fans it," Harris said. "But the reality is that these are forms of hate that are not new to our country, which have in the history of our country taken lethal proportion, and, still today, take on lethal proportion."