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Raids an i.c.e. official told cnn they were a part of a broader criminal investigation going after the companies that employ undocumented labor. that case is now in the hands of the u.s. attorney for the southern district of mississippi. cnn's made repeated requests to interview u.s. attorney mike hurst. he's declined the requests and given no indication the companies will be charged. nick, thank you. frontier airlines hit with a federal lawsuit. two women say their pleas for help were ignored. but they were sexually assaulted during a flight. their shocking allegations. that's next.

Don't think about where the chicken comes from. we have a huge raid in mississippi of plants that supply the chicken that supply t -- to a lot of the fast food restaurants. but the chicken comes through the work of undocumented labor. they're not taking jobs from coal miners, they're making your chicken. you want your chicken but you don't want them. >> it's important that people start making these connections, because what we're basically looking at is the dehumanization of an entire population. that's what allows people to say do whatever, deport sick people who care, it doesn't matter, they...

Separated with her father. what does that reaction from mark morgan tell you about the trump administration's strategy here? >> morgan, what i think is really interesting is in what he said is he admitted there were other kinds of fraud that allowed these hirings to take place. specifically, it's the owners of these companies of these plants that are giving the undocumented immigrants fake social security unusuals to work for them. they are harassing them. there's wage theft going on and as soon as these immigrants try to sue for their own rights, they get rounded up and deported. it's been re...

Communities that plants like the one behind me employ undocumented labor. so the question is how many of these bosses who employ undumed immigrants are going to be prosecuted? how many of them are going to be detained and seek justice? that remains to be seen. i did reach out to an i.c.e. official. you heard that information in the piece. they said it was purely consistencedantal, they called it business as usual and acknowledged the optics are poor. it comes just a few days after that blatantly racist attack that targeted the latino community. >> talk to me what it's like there? >> reporter: ...

Those massive raids, were part of a broader federal criminal investigation. we're outside in front of the u.s. attorney's office here in the southern district of mississippi where we just got our hands on these probable cause affidavits. affidavits which show that i.c.e. was looking for falsified documents, visa fraud. looking to see if these employers, which for years according to locals here, it's the worst-kept secret for years they have employed undocumented labor. these documents were looking to see if the companies followed proper protocol to ensure they weren't hiring undocumented immig...