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Disbelief. kids left not knowing where their parents were being taken this 11- >> i need my dad >> reporter: jordan barns opened up his gym to children with nowhere to go. >> the kids should be the main priority if we all put the kids first and do what we can to help them to make this as less painful as possible for them. >> reporter: the raids happened wednesday in six small towns near jackson, mississippi. federal authorities say the sweep has been in the works for months according to federal ...

Custody, this after wednesdays massive sweep at seven mississippi food processing plants. at least 680 people were rounded up, many of them parents to young children. wednesday was also the first day of school in these communities leaving many of the children returning home to no parents at all. joining me now is cnns natasha chen live in camden, mississippi. so how are these communities dealing in the wake of these raids particularly when you have children it seems with no one to take care of t...

Children were left sobbing outside the fences of food processing plant wondering when or if they would see their mom or dad again. cnn spoke to several of those kids yesterday after their parents returned. >> they dont have their parents at all. theyre upset. theyre scared. theyre like little kids. im in high school, maybe i can understand a little bit more. elementary kids, they dont understand anybody. he said to mama, take care of the kids. immigration captured me. i hope you come back. and t...

More on this from morton, mississippi, where some of these raids took place. gabe, the optics of what happened not lost on him, saying it is meant to be a deterrent of sorts. what more have you learned about wednesdays raids and how people are responding there? >> reporter: it is significant that he is viewing them as a deterrent. i can tell you on the ground, speaking with some of these families who are now wondering where many of their relatives are, it is having quite an impact here. this com...

Presidents harshest rhetoric against latin mernss, something historic was happening elsewhere. a massive i.c.e. raid in mississippi. officials say it was the largest mass arrest in u.s. history of undocumented workers in a single state in just one day. 680 workers were arrested by more than 600 i.c.e. agents who raided seven work sites in six cities. it all happened on the day students returned to school. and now more undocumented parents have been separated from their children. children such as...

Heart, let my parents see me. anybody else, dont leave the childs with cryingness and everything. my dad didnt do nothing, hes not a criminal. >> many of the children, some as young as toddlers, relied on friends, neighbors, even strangers to take them in after officials detained nearly 700 people in a series of raids across the state, including at a food processing plant in morton where an 11-year-old girl watched as her mom was detained and begged officials to let her go. >> please, can i just...

By the house and is sitting on the desk in the senate. its not that congress hasnt done anything. its not that the house hasnt passed legislation. its that it has gone over to the senate and the senate is sitting on it and the senate majority leader in particular is sitting on it, not allowing it to come up for a vote, because he has -- there is no political gain for him in doing so. >> thank you, jonathan capehart, "the washington post" opinion writer. shannon watts is with moms demand action f...

Most of whom are reportedly civilians. taliban sources say the attack was part of a planned string of attacks set to take place in various places to imbembarrass government and as many residents were preparing for the muslim holiday which starts on sunday. immigration enforcement agents raided food processing plant in mississippi. it is believed to be the largest single day one-state sweep in u.s. history. most of the workers arrested are latino. the long-plan raids unfolded as the president t...

>> shepard: breaking news. were learning of an enormous immigration raid in an area about 40 miles east of jackson, mississippi. associated press is now reporting immigration agents arrested 680 people at a food processing plant. morton is home of one of the largest chicken farms in all the country. the chicken production houses are there are the life blood of the economy in morton, mississippi. for years and decades, immigrants have worked in those facilities. if youre looking for a target to g...

That terrorist groups have been propagating this distorted interpretation of islam, which justifies these kind of acts of violence. i think thats what were talking about here when it comes to radicalization. whats not clear is the degree to which the full part of the motivation. . it appears there was a blended motivation that this was partly perhaps some kind of personal grudge against colleagues. because he could have gone and shot up a shopping mall or sports arena and killed more people, but...