Mississippi ICE raids split families, leave children adrift: 'I just want my mom and dad'
MORTON, Miss. - Leaning against the kitchen counter, Juana Andres, 12, rubbed her thumb and index finger anxiously across her father's cellphone.
Beside her, her older brother Eduardo, 14, stared into his iPad, tears rolling down his cheeks.
It had been about 36 hours since federal immigration agents with guns had burst into the Koch Foods Inc. chicken processing plant in the heart of Morton, Miss., rounding up their mom and dad and fastening plastic zip ties to their wrists before packing them onto buses and hauling them off.
Some locals said the workers - immigrants without papers to live in the U.S. illegally - had been rounded up with little more dignity than the chickens that enter the plant in rumbling 18-wheelers. But Juana had little to say about politics or race or immigration.
"I just want my mom and dad to come home,"
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