Beto O'Rourke visits Mississippi towns targeted in ICE raids
1 / 2ADDITION Election 2020 Beto ORourkeADDS NAME OF IMMIGRANT - Presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke speaks in Spanish to Guatemalan immigrant Agusto Lopez Coronado in Canton, Miss., on Friday, Aug. 16, 2019. Coronado initially declined to give his name to journalists because of fears of repercussions days after the immigration raids at chicken processing plants in Mississippi. Coronado later identified himself in an interview, saying his wife was arrested in an immigration raid Aug.
That brought O'Rourke, a fluent Spanish-speaker, to Canton, home to a plant owned by Peco Foods Inc., which was among those raided on Aug. 7. He met privately with several immigrants in a grocery store in a neighborhood where many people come from Honduras and Guatemala. His campaign also distributed containers of eggs and bags of rice, cornmeal and black beans to immigrants who walked from a mobile home park where many live down the road from the Peco plant.
"And if that were the goal, and I think it is from Donald Trump — we're seeing a tenfold increase in these kinds of ICE raids in his administration versus the last administration — if that is his goal, he's getting it done," he said."He's terrifying this community — people who have done nothing to anybody else, pose no threat to America. So, there's no other reason to raid this community, other than to terrify this community.
Still, after Trump took office, then-acting Director Thomas Homan said ICE would try to increase all worksite enforcement actions by 400%, part of a larger effort to enforce immigration law.
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