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The aftermath from Wednesday's immigration raid on Pilgrim's Pride creates a ripple effect in the Hispanic community.
Family members of the detained wonder what's next, while the entire community is tense with fear.
The images from yesterday's raid at the Pilgrim's Pride plant stay with Raul Rojas as he works today. His mind on the unintended victims of the roundup.
He says the saddest part is the thought of the children of the workers rounded up yesterday. The way they came home from school, looking for their parents, is heartbreaking.
Rojas says he does not specifically know anyone involved in the arrests. But as a member of the Latino community, he is familiar with the strain and worry.
He says for the families of workers rounded up, there is constant fear. The community as a whole senses the fear and he is sure more difficult moments are coming.
Employees at Hispanic outreach agency La Paz de Dios are bracing themselves for those difficult moments.
Director Mike Feely explains, "We tried to just think of, okay, who are all the people we need to notify just, the bottom line for us was are the families and kids going to be okay."
Feely says they will concentrate on the families left without an income, children left without parents and a community left without trust.
Feely sympathizes, "I can't blame them. I'd be afraid to go to the store, a church service, what's safe?"
His organization will network with other social service agencies to make sure the families left behind are not the ones punished for the round up.
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"The folks at ICE and immigration folks, they've got a job to do and they do that, but something, and I know they tried to prepare but still you can never calculate the impact it's going to have on a community."
ICE agents took 100 employees into custody yesterday on administrative immigration arrests.
36 of them later received humanitarian releases.
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