'I'm 25 now, and it still haunts me.' Edgar Carranza, whose father was deported to Guatemala when he was 13, says seeing crying children without their parents 'takes me back to that night' when he was first placed in foster care.
A crowd waited outside a plant in Morton, Mississippi, on Thursday morning, hoping authorities would release their loved ones. Many had been by later in the afternoon. Video footage from CNN affiliates and Facebook live showed children sobbing as they waited for word on what had happened to their parents.
Luis Espinoza, an organizer with the alliance, teared up as he described seeing detained workers and said the immigrants who were detained are in need of legal and financial assistance. "I don't see illegals. I don't see bad people. It's only families, fathers, mothers who want something better for the kids, so they come here and just work," he said."They are not criminals."Speaking to reporters outside a plant in Canton, Mississippi, Mayor William Truly Jr.
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