In August, more than 600 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents across seven Mississippi cities conducted “the largest single-state immigration-enforcement operation” in American history. One of those cities was Morton, Mississippi, which Charles Bethea profiles in a powerful New Yorker piece. On one hand, the First United Methodist Church in Morton has “helped disburse more than a hundred thousand dollars for more than two hundred local families” to pay utility bills. On the other hand, Cristina, a small business owner from Nicaragua who has lived in Mississippi for 18 years, told Bethea: “Look at how they come to kill Hispanics. I’m afraid to go to Walmart. I’m afraid to go to the mall. To the movies. We’re not well. Not well. This has affected us so much. We can’t work. Every day, every day, I pray to God that my husband comes home. Because immigration is everywhere.”
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