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>> you have a restaurant business and youre stuck in the restaurant all the time. do you feel like the politics that goes on day-to-day affects your life. >> yes. but things take a lot of time. >> trying to convince people that voting is worth the time and effort is a challenge. and thats at least in part because so many potential voters feel disconnected from the process, especially when it comes to the unique way we choose our president. >> we are the popular vote. >> because of our system, we...

When you do an operation at a work site, you cant ignore the people that are there. over 200 had a criminal record in the u.s. >> howmany have green cards and were here legally? >> i can get you that. i dont have any information they had green cards. they were all taken and processed. you had a lot oof sympathetic video. ice took great pains to make sure there were no child dependent care issues. 32 of the arrestees were released on site that plant. another 200 sa another 270 released within the...

Much. all right, lets bring in danny cevallos, msnbc legal analyst. thank you for being here so early on a saturday. whats the status right now of the hundreds of people who were arrested at the six companies there in mississippi? >> its difficult to get the hard statistics, but about 270 or so had been released, but still 300 or so remain in custody. its hard to know what criteria authorities are using to detain or release parents or even nonparents at this point because the standards leave s...

Who gabe mentioned the whatd you find out. >> gabe has the reality on the ground. im talking to officials here in washington saying heres what we did to try to ameliorate some of the suffering. but they say theres no way they could have done everything to notify schools and child protective services without tipping off immigrants of what their plans were and they didnt want to do that before a law enforcement operation. some of the things they did do, they said some of the parents were released ...

Can do that. the things they did provide is they said they talked to the people when they were first arrested at their work site and they released about 30 of them, many because they had children under the age of 5. 270 were released later in processing. they say that was because of custody concerns. some of them explained that they were the only ones taking care of their children and they were given a phone call so they could make arrangements for relatives to come pick up their child at school...

And what kind of planning that theyll be arresting and detaining parents who had children. >> they are not a social services administration. theyre not a humanitarian agency either. it is their job to enforce the laws. in terms of some precautions they took. they did release 30 immigrants at the work site before they were taken into detention or processing because they say for many reasons, one of those reasons being some of them had tinder age children, those are children under five. they also ...

>> joining me now is nbcs julia ainsley whos been reporting on these. julia, whats going on in the community. how are the families dealing with this today? where are people being housed, whats happening to these kids? >> reporter: you can see that theres a lot of tears, theres a lot of uncertainty because we do know that 270 of the immigrants who were arrested in the raids of those 680 who were arrested were released. 270 were released with court dates. a lot of those were released because they ...

>> please, can i see my mother, please? >> please. >> diane gallagher is in mississippi there covering the aftermath of this raid. the girl you can hear pleading for her mother. were they reunited? >> yeah. i just got done speaking with her mother about an hour and a half ago at their home. her mother was released last night. it turned out they put her on a bus that released her at a different plant in the middle of the night about an hour away from her home. a family friend was able to take her...

The deadly mass shooting in el paso and the presidents response factor into it? lets discuss now. ron, good evening to you. theres a lot of buzz about this texas and 2020. especially with another sitting republican congressman announcing this week hell not seek reelection. that makes four in texas alone. so, what is this hype about? is there a chance texas honestly. they can go blue. >> its obviously a reach. it wouldnt be in the first 270 votes. if they win texas, they have already won. its not...

About this, that deep red texas could turn blue for the first time since carter in 1976. the deadly mass shooting in el paso and the presidents response factor into it? lets discuss now. ron, good evening to you. theres a lot of buzz about this texas and 2020. especially with another sitting republican congressman announcing this week hell not seek reelection. that makes four in texas alone. so, what is this hype about? is there a chance texas honestly. they can go blue. >> its obviously a reach...