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Another raid is coming. cnns nick valencia reports. >> reporter: like so many others here, sophia hernandez is worried. three yeahs ago used the money saved working at the local chicken plants to buy this mexican market, but now with business crippled by the i.c.e. raids in august she doesnt know if shell be able to keep it open. had to cut hours of employees. [ speaking in foreign language ] >> youre worried. >> [ speaking in foreign language ]. >> youre worried. >> [ speaking in foreign langua...

Steve: almost every time the democrats and the state media criticize president trumps plans to control immigration. they say we need to import workers to do the jobs americans wont do. we heard that from beto orourke after i.c.e. raided several meat plants in mississippi. >> i saw in mississippi, in canton where nearly 700 people working in chicken processing plants, one of the toughest jobs in mayor car. they were taken from their kids, humiliated, hogtied, for the crime of being in this countr...

Steve: almost every time the democrats and the state media criticize president trumps plans to control immigration. they say we need to import workers to do the jobs americans wont do. we heard that from beto orourke after i.c.e. raided several meat plants in mississippi. >> i saw in mississippi, in canton where nearly 700 people working in chicken processing plants, one of the toughest jobs in mayor car. they were taken from their kids, humiliated, hogtied, for the crime of being in this countr...

To after spending nearly two weeks in el paso, following the shooting was jackson, mississippi, to visit small communities in that state that have been subject to the largest single state employment i.c.e. raid in the history of this country. nearly 700 people rounded up in the workplace. most of them, chicken processing plants. these are folks who have been here in some cases 15, 20 or more years raising their u.s. citizen children here in our country. working some of the toughest jobs, not com...

Amendment and continuing to visit these cruelties on our fellow americans. he doesnt want us to be able to come together. recognize his failures and overcome them by defeating them in november of 2020. >> arrest the mass shooting, you returned to your home town and you came out with a new strategy. what do you want to do differently? our new polls show youre polling at 3%. what do you think? >> the first place that i went to after spending nearly two weeks in el paso, following the shooting was ...

An ak-47, that he had no business owning, that no american should own unless theyre on a battle field engaged with the enemy, wasnt until that moment i trul ay understood how critical this moment is and the consequence and cost of donald trump and i saw it again in mississippi where nearly 700 people working in can chicken processing plants were humiliated, hog tied for a crime of being in this country doing a job no one else will do. there is a concerted, organized attack against immigrants, ag...

These parties support immigration restriction, and immigration restriction is good because its good for our economy. and thats a falsehood because we know that immigration is actually a net positive to our gdp and our economy. theres that fiscal component part. then also, if we go to the extreme, what we saw a week and a half ago in el paso, where part-time ta people take the falsehoods and target immigrants. so they can have a range of immigrants and lives arent abated as we ramp up into the el...

On for years, eventually, the engine is going to start to break down. >> so, let me ask the question about power. the people affected are powerless. years ago a black writer wrote a play called "days of absence." the economy just collapses. would that be a message to this country in the parents of the children that youre talking about just stay home. and nothing gets done. that is work, that is produced by undocumented illegal immigrants. is there any way the parents can exert their power to kee...

Recognizes open hearings, open hearings before the cameras are really, really important for the country in terms of dealing with even most controversial issues, in terms of airing out complex stuff and things were fighting about, air rg it out and having the same information, enables us to all be better citizens. were back with new headlines on those undocumented workers detained in last weeks raids in mississippi. they are slowly being reunited with their families. >> all throw 377 of the 680...

Lets go back to the raids that underscored donald trumps lack of empathy. one of the chicken processing plants targeted by the isis raids is owned by koch foods, but that has no relation to the koch brothers. it is a privately owned illinois based company, one of the largest food businesses in the united states, owned by the 328th richest person in america, a man named joseph grendies, worth an estimated $3.3 billion. it employs 13,000 employees nationwide and according to the "chicago tribune",...