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ICE Raids Send Schools Scrambling

August 8, 2019

By: Lauren Camera

Source: U.S. News

The new school year started Tuesday for children in Mississippi’s Scott County, where the 4,000-student district situated about 50 miles east of the state capital in Jackson serves the communities of Lake, Morton and Sebastopol, along with the surrounding rural areas.

The food processing industry drives the economy there, with three major companies operating plants. It was no surprise then that when U.S. immigration officials raided seven plants Wednesday in the Jackson area, arresting 680 mostly Latino workers in the largest workplace raid in at least a decade, the event had an outsized impact on the community.

And for Tony McGee, superintendent of Scott County School District, the government sting left him scrambling to care for the collateral damage: children with no parents to go home to.

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