CBS News claims that ICE “rounded up” illegals today in immigration sweeps, but did they really?

by The Right Scoop

CBS News is reporting that ICE rounded up illegals today in immigration sweeps in Mississippi:

Here’s more from their article:

U.S. immigration authorities on Wednesday rounded up hundreds of undocumented workers in food processing plants during a sprawling operation in Mississippi that officials touted as the largest immigration enforcement sweep in a single state in U.S. history.

By targeting workplaces across six different cities in southern Mississippi, Immigration and Customs and Enforcement (ICE) agents, with the help of the local district attorney’s office, apprehended approximately 680 undocumented immigrants.

Obviously I’m taking issue with the wording they use here in saying that ICE ’rounded up’ these illegals. They make it sounds so illegitimate when they use the words ’rounded up’, as if these poor ‘undocumented workers’ are victims of an oppressive system.

Here’s a better example of the same story from the AP Wire Service:

U.S. immigration officials raided numerous Mississippi food processing plants Wednesday, arresting 680 mostly Latino workers in what marked the largest workplace sting in at least a decade.

The raids, planned months ago, happened just hours before President Donald Trump was scheduled to visit El Paso, Texas, the majority-Latino city where a man linked to an online screed about a “Hispanic invasion” was charged in a shooting that left 22 people dead in the border city.

Workers filled three buses — two for men and one for women — at a Koch Foods Inc. plant in tiny Morton, 40 miles (64 kilometers) east of Jackson. They were taken to a military hangar to be processed for immigration violations. About 70 family, friends and residents waved goodbye and shouted, “Let them go! Let them go!” Later, two more buses arrived.

A tearful 13-year-old boy whose parents are from Guatemala waved goodbye to his mother, a Koch worker, as he stood beside his father. Some employees tried to flee on foot but were captured in the parking lot.

Workers who were confirmed to have legal status were allowed to leave the plant after having their trunks searched.

“…arresting 680 mostly Latino workers” Much better!

They were ARRESTED, not rounded up. Seriously, I do think there’s a big difference here. By using the proper language of law enforcement it conveys to people that these ICE agents are doing their legitimate duty, which most people will interpret as a good thing.

As far as the substance of the article goes, I’m glad immigration officials are getting these illegals. Maybe they can hide out at home, but they gotta go to work at some point.

And in case you are wondering, the AP Wire Service article makes clear that Koch Foods “has no relation to prominent conservative political donors and activists Charles and David Koch.”


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