VivirLatino

There has been much talk of the Obama administration moving towards more “silent” immigration raids, that is targeting workplaces. The perception and narrative is that targeting immigrants and their employers in this way is kinder and gentler. But the reality looks more like what went down in the Jackson, Mississippi metro area this past weekend.

ICE agents were “knocking on doors, saying they were selling Avon or with Domino’s,” said Glenda Arevalo, who lives in the complex. “They said, ‘Come out, come out, y’all are going back to your country.’”

When some responded they were in the country legally, she said ICE agents replied, “We don’t care. You’re going with us.”

Angella Rector said she saw an ICE agent put a gun against the head of one Hispanic and say, “If you move motherf—er, we’re going to kill you.”

The father of her three young children was among those arrested by agents, she said. “He was in his boxers. They told him, ‘You’re f—ing illegal.’”

Her husband is being taken back to Mexico, she said. “Now I have to raise the kids by myself.”

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