HAPPENING NOW: In Forrest, Mississippi where one of the #ICE raids happened nearby Children of those who were arrested are left alone in the streets crying for help. Strangers and neighbors are taking them to a local gym to be put up for the night. FULL STORY TONIGHT ON @WJTV. pic.twitter.com/s2zuTTRYfM— Alex Love (@AlexLoveWJTV) August 8, 2019
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They hauled away 680 workers.
Today ICE agents arrested 680 people in Mississippi in the largest single-state raid in their history. 600 agents swept up hundreds at food processing plants in several cities. That which so many dreaded is coming to pass. Don't look away. https://t.co/6DdsNlu5vB#ICEraids pic.twitter.com/70Dpkqd8cU— Jemar Tisby (@JemarTisby) August 7, 2019
The children of those hauled away were left behind.
Media are reporting that this event was planned in advance.
The ICE raids that took place today in Mississippi don't happen without extensive cooperation of local law enforcement and state representatives.
Whether it was a formal 287(g) program or less formal agreements to provide information, your local leaders knew about this shit.— JT 🌹 (@Insurgent_Prof) August 7, 2019
It was staged on the first day of school — obviously, it was planned in advance to occur on that day — as the man in the White House headed to a city where other Latinos were gunned down by someone representing them as an invasion, rhetoric the man in the White House has routinely used.
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 pic.twitter.com/0vr3CEWPTj— Ashton Pittman (@ashtonpittman) August 7, 2019
Do you know what else was planned in advance and executed in a similar fashion? The answer is Kristallnacht, an act of performative cruelty performed well in advance and staged by armed goons in a single night across Germany, as synagogues were burned, Jewish businesses were smashed and looted, Jewish houses were ransacked — with the heavily Christian population of Germany standing by and watching, for the most part, when Christian neighbors were not actually taking part in this assault on Jewis neighbors.
What was done yesterday in Mississippi was an act of performative cruelty. Cruelty, intentional cruelty, is the point.
Whose interests are served by removing 680 workers from their jobs in one of the poorest, most economically backward states in the nation and leaving their children behind?
Who will fill those jobs? From whom were these jobs taken?
Who will make up for what is being lost in economic contributions from people working, spending money, and contributing to their communities?
Who will take care of the children separated from their parents?
The biggest question of all: Why did “pro-life” white Christians set all of this performative cruelty into motion with their votes in 2016?
Someone please explain to me what is “pro-life” about what had just happened in my country after “pro-life” white Christians set it into motion.