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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 officials, about 600 agents spanned out across the food processing plant surrounding the perimeter t...

Custody, this after wednesday's 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 cnn's 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 them? >> jim, it's still a lot of anxiety here. we talked to those families, those kids. we were st...

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 don't have their parents at all. they're upset. they're scared. they're like little kids. i'm in high school, maybe i can understand a little bit more. elementary kids, they don't understand anybody. he said to mama, take care of the kids. immigration captured me. i hope you come back. and that god protects you. >> she didn't do nothing wrong. she isn't a criminal. hispanic people, 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 wednesday's 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 community is reeling, trying to figure out what's next. i'm standing in front of the food processing p...

President's 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 this young woman crying outside of a food processing plant as her mother is arrested. want to disc...