'It was their first day of school. There are no words for this intentional cruelty,' said Natalie Montelongo, the national political director for 2020 presidential candidate Julián Castro.
While some students in schools affected by the raids in Jackson, Bay Springs, Carthage, Canton, Morton, Pelahatchie and Sebastapol, would have started school on Tuesday, according to school district calendars, others, including those in Jackson and Canton, would have started on the day of the raids.
ICE spokesperson Bryan Cox said that he did not immediately know how many of the workers detained had children at home. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency conducts a workplace raid in Jackson, Mississippi, as part of sweeping raids across the state, which saw 680 people arrested.McGee said that district officials would be remaining at the school"until we make sure that every child is home safe or has a safe place to go.
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