While their children were at school and at day-care Wednesday, ICE arrested 680 undocumented men and women working in chicken and poultry plants in Mississippi.
At the end of the school day, when kids were waiting to be picked up by their parents, nobody came for some of the kids because their parents had been detained.
Instead of going home to their families many kids had to rely on the kindness of strangers and spent the night in the school gym last.
Certainly since such raids are planned well in advance, someone realized these workers had children.
It was the largest mass raid of ICE in American history.
But, I suppose there is an up side.
680 jobs in meat and poultry processing have just opened up. Add to those all the workers who voluntarily or by some federal agency action left the jobs of picking fruits and vegetables letting those jobs that they had taken from us come back for us to claim.
Mississippi’s unemployment should be going down while the roles of the employed go up. As Numero Uno on the list of the country’s poorest states based on poverty levels, unemployment rates, and median income,
They should count their blessings.