Fox News personality Geraldo Rivera came out against the Immigration Customs Enforcement raids leading to the arrests of hundreds of undocumented workers on Wednesday.
ICE executed multiple criminal warrants at seven agricultural processing plants across Mississippi and detained approximately 680 people who are in the country illegally, according to an ICE press release.
“Almost 700 undocumented immigrant Ag workers arrested in Mississippi on Wednesday by #ICE, the largest single-state immigration enforcement in history,” Rivera tweeted. “FOR WHAT PURPOSE? Hard-working, otherwise law-abiding workers-many with families here for decades-Now families are shattered.”
Almost 700 undocumented immigrant Ag workers arrested in Mississippi on Wednesday by #ICE, the largest single-state immigration enforcement in history. FOR WHAT PURPOSE? Hard-working, otherwise law-abiding workers-many with families here for decades-Now families are shattered.
— Geraldo Rivera (@GeraldoRivera) August 8, 2019
Each of the undocumented immigrants are either being placed in “removal proceedings before the federal immigration courts, and for those who already received due process and have been ordered removed, processed for removal from the U.S.,” the agency’s press release reads.
Those arrested were bused to a Mississippi National Guard hangar and interviewed there, according to NPR.
#Raids contemplated by #ICE = a terrible idea. “Collateral” arrests and deportations of otherwise innocent undocumented immigrants caught in crush will tear families apart and sow terror among law-abiding, family-oriented folks who just want a better living for their children.
— Geraldo Rivera (@GeraldoRivera) July 12, 2019
Rivera previously denounced reports of mass deportations last month, calling them a “terrible idea” because it “will tear families apart and sow terror among law-abiding, family-oriented folks who just want a better living for their children.”
