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Community can be be underestimated. let me share you the front page of the clarion ledger. the store depends on them. they don't know how they will provide for their families. children separated from their parents. the trickle-down effect has pretty much paralyzed many of these communities. >> the food processing plant isn't paralyzed. they're hosting a job fair today. was ownership or management charged with anything? 680 people wasn't an accident. they knew exactly who they hired. >> reporter: no. they have not been charged with anything yet. and on top of that, steph, i was told by luac thi...

Towns and you have a lot of businesses starting to hurt all right. they are losing their customers. right now it's looking to see what the aftermath will be. there's still a lot of fear among the hispanic community and small towns. >> the clarion ledger has reported that many of the people that were detained by i.c.e. originally were working at these plants wearing ankle bracelets which supports i.c.e. was aware of them and awaiting deportation proceedings. it also would suggest that perhaps the companies should have been aware they were undocumented. is there going to be any sort of legal -- ...

And individual cases that, again, just to show you the shock waves that were created in these communities and the fact that there was no plan in place, apparently, that we could see when this thing pretty much happened out of nowhere for these families last wednesday. and then finally something that, you know, i've been reporting on this morning that is still shocking to me as a journalist is that i've been hearing from lulac and the claireion ledger, many workers had ankle bracelets, visible ankle bracelets, which means they were asylum seekers. if you're an employer and you don't notice an a...

If they were served appropriately, they should have had documentation. the women with the ankle bracelets need to appear before an officer to report for monitoring of the ankle bracelet and also a court date. many did not receive that. we need to hold the government accountable. if you had a year-long investigation, it's concerning that many of the individuals were just herded like animals, shackled and chained and not given the appropriate documentation under the protocols and procedures under the rules of law in our nation. we have many politicians going forward to advocate for gun control p...

It seems to me the priority of i.c.e. ought to be trying to find those people who have genuinely criminal backgrounds and i'm not talking about speeding tickets. some of the people actually had ankle bracelets, not because they were criminals, but because they had sought asylum here and that was the way to continue to track them. i don't feel any safeer that i.c.e. undertake this is. i think they out to have better priorities for what they use their money for. i was just down at the border week before last and we have a situation down there that isn't good. and it is going to get worse as the ...