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Play Video 0:22 'I need my dad': sobbing 11-year-old pleads for father's release after immigration sting – video

Videos and news reports from the Wednesday raids in Missippi show children crying, separated from their parents.

The children, some toddlers, of apprehended migrants were taken to makeshift shelters, the Guardian’s Edward Helmore reports.

Local reporters say that despite immigration authorities’ reassurances that all the children were being cared for, some were left behind with nowhere to go