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Immigrant Families Jobless in Mississippi After 'Inhumane' ICE Raids

Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance organizer Luis Espinoza told the Jackson Free Press on Thursday that he had spent the past two days working with families after ICE agents raided six worksites across the state on Wednesday.

The Jackson City Council approved various city projects towards improving the city's infrastructure at its …

Jackson City Council Honors Mississippi Book Festival, Approves Road Projects

The City of Jackson recognized the Mississippi Book Festival's influence and importance at an Aug. 6 city council meeting.

How to Help Children, Families After Mississippi ICE Raids

A growing collection of many ways to help and donate in the wake of the Mississippi ICE raids.

Bennie Thompson Demands Answers from AG Barr on Mississippi ICE Raids

In an eight-page letter on Aug. 9, 2019, U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson demands answers from AG William Barr.

Elected Officials, Advocacy Groups, Others Address Mississippi ICE Raids

Since ICE and U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst's office yesterday raided workplaces across Mississippi, arresting 680 people and leaving many children stranded, we have received or spotted another of responses to the roundups on social media. Here is a growing list.

Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant (left), a Republican, and Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves (right), the frontrunner …

Mississippians Mobilize Against ICE Raids: 'Who They Gone Come After Tomorrow?'

The Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance hosted a press conference in response to multiple ICE workplace raids on Aug. 7 in which 650 special Homeland Security Investigation special agents executed unspecified administrative and criminal search warrants at seven sites in Mississippi.