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Ashton Pittman
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Today’s ICE raids in Mississippi were the *single largest one-day worksite raids on immigrants in U.S. history.* ICE raided workplaces where they rounded up 680 immigrant workers in six Mississippi cities. #MSICEraids #ICEraids
jacksonfreepress.com/news/2019/aug/…
“Workers filled 3 buses—two for men & one for women—at a Koch Foods Inc. plant in tiny Morton. They were taken to a military hangar to be processed for immigration violations. About 70 family, friends and residents waved goodbye and shouted, "Let them go! Let them go!" #ICEraids
“A tearful 13-year-old boy whose parents are from Guatemala waved goodbye to his mother, a Koch worker, as he stood beside his father. Some employees tried to flee on foot but were captured in the parking lot.”
#ICEraids jacksonfreepress.com/news/2019/aug/…
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Ashton Pittman
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At a Mississippi school, the children and family members of immigrants plucked out of their workplaces by federal agents in today’s historic #ICEraids weep, unsure when or if they’ll see their loved ones again. Their back to school week. Shared with permission from Miriam Sanchez
Stories of today’s #ICEraids: “Children finished their first day of school with no parents to go home to tonight. Babies & toddlers remained at daycare with no guardian to pick them up. A child vainly searched a workplace parking lot for missing parents.”
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While all this is going on, thousands of refugees and asylum seekers are now languishing in private prisons in Mississippi—including one where a deadly riot broke out in 2012 in protest of insufficient food and medical care.
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Ashton Pittman
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US Atty Mike Hurst says ICE swept up 680 people across 6 MS cities today. ICE officers stormed facilities where workers were trying to make a living for their families & carried them off in buses.

He claims it's about "enforcing the rule of law...throughout our great country."
From the release: "Family members of those detained can call ICE’s toll-free detainee locator hotline for
information about an individual’s detention location & status, as well as info about the
removal process. The phone number is 1-888-351-
4024." (Eng+Spanish hotline)
The immigrants whom ICE detained are being sent to a prison camp in Jena, Louisiana. #MSIceRaids #ICE
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Ashton Pittman
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Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves has spent $5.7 million in the GOP primary for governor so far this year.

His GOP opponents, Bill Waller and Robert Foster, have spent less than $1.3 million combined ($1.1 million from Waller).

And yet, W+F have a combined 52% of the vote now. #MSelex
If that holds, Reeves will go to a runoff with Waller, whom he outspent 5-1.

Money ain’t everything, y’all. #MSelex
More on big money in #MSelex here, and Reeves’ medical “IV League” donors: jacksonfreepress.com/news/2019/aug/…
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Just got word from a very reliable source that #ICE raids in Harlem rounded up 50 people this morning.

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