Rep. Jackson Lee Criticizes 'Gestapo' ICE Raids: 'These Are People Who Are Working'

[rangerrebew]

Rep. Jackson Lee Criticizes 'Gestapo' ICE Raids: 'These Are People Who Are Working'
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

(CNSNews.com) - More than 300 people living and working in this country illegally have been released on humanitarian grounds, an I.C.E. spokesman said, following raids at seven meat and agriculture processing plants in Mississippi on Wednesday.

Those released had children or other dependents to care for, an ICE spokesman told ABC News:

"During processing, each alien is asked if they have any dependents that need to be cared for," ICE Southern Region Communications Director Bryan Cox told ABC. "Any arrestee who identifies a child care issue, and is not being criminally arrested or is subject to mandatory detention, will be expeditiously processed and returned to the point of apprehension so that they can get to their child or other dependents."
 
Source URL: https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/rep-jackson-lee-gestapo-ice-raids-these-are-people-who-are-working

[rangerrebew]

If it were truly like the Gestapo, those 680 people would be dead or on their way to their deaths at concentration camps.  She ought to learn something about history.

[PeteS in CA]

Those 680 people entered the US illegally, took 680 jobs that should have been held by US citizens or people otherwise legally here, and stole someone's identity in order to hold and get paid for those 680 jobs.

Zero sympathy from me!

[berdie]

There was a little girl on the news last night. Maybe 6 or 7.  Just sobbing.  " My dad didn't do anything but try to work.  We aren't thieves."

It was sad that her folks put her in this position.

[skeeter]

'These Are People Who Are Voting Working'

[Wingnut]

There was a little girl on the news last night. Maybe 6 or 7.  Just sobbing.  " My dad didn't do anything but try to work.  We aren't thieves."

It was sad that her folks put her in this position.

The alphabets love to trot out the old ladies and babies to tug on the heart string and whip up the canard that conservatives are heartless racist bastards...