Mississippi immigration raids cause ripple effect on churches

Mississippi immigration raids cause ripple effect on churches

Updated: 6:27 PM CDT Aug 20, 2019

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AND FOOD PROCESSING PLANTS IN MISSISSIPPI. CHURCHES SAY THEY’RE ON THE RECEIVING END OF THOSE PROBLEMS. BUT SOME ARE COMING TO THEIR RESCUE TO HELP THOSE FAMILIES IN NEED.. WE SPOKE WITH A VOLUNTEER ABOUT HER CALL TO ACTION.. FIRST THE ARRESTS… 680 PEOPLE DETAINED AND PROCESSED FOR BEING IN THE US ILLEGALLY… THE AFTERMATH, LEAVING SOME ADDITIONAL CONSEQUENCES… THE PASTOR OF A FOREST CHURCH SAYS THE RAIDS HAVE LEFT THE SIZE OF HIS CONGREGATION CUT IN HALF… THERE ARE ALSO FAMILIES UPENDED, AND JOBS LOST… BUT GROUPS LIKE MISSISSISSIPPI RESITE’ ARE TRYING TO FILL THE VOID… ONE VOLUNTEER TELLS US, THE CALL TO ACTION IS PERSONAL… I COME FROM A FAMILY OF IMMIGRANTS. YOU KNOW, UH…I WAS BORN HERE, BUT MY PARENTS WERE NOT. NONE OF MY UNCLES, AUNTS, GRANDPARENTS WERE. AND, SO…I GREW UP SEEING THEM STRUGGLE. SEEING THEM STRUGGLE NOT ONLY TO SPEAK THE LANGUAGE, BUT TO UNDERSTAND HOW THIS COUNTRY WORKS, AND WHY THEY DON’T WANT THEM HERE THE GROUP THAT SANCHEZ VOLUNTEERS WITH IS HELPING IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES HERE IN THE STATE WITH LEGAL SUPPORT, THEY ARE RAISING MONEY TO HELP WITH FOOD AND OTHER EXPENSES, FOR THOSE NOW OUT OF WORK, AND THEY’RE ALSO MAKING SURE THAT PEOPLE KNOW THIER RIGHTS… SANCHEZ ALSO TELLS US THERE IS A LOT OF FEAR AND ANXIETY IN THE MISSISSIPPI’S IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES, BUT THERE IS ALSO A SENSE THAT PEOPLE ARE COMING TOGETHER TO FIGHT, AND MAKE SURE NOTING LIKE THIS MONTH’S RAIDS HAPPEN AGAIN… ANOTHER HOT AND HUMI

Mississippi immigration raids cause ripple effect on churches

Updated: 6:27 PM CDT Aug 20, 2019

More problems in the wake of the ICE raids and food processing plants in Mississippi.

More problems in the wake of the ICE raids and food processing plants in Mississippi.