they were the ones left behind after homeland security arrested undocumented workers at seven sites and six cities in mississippi. i.c.e. says the operation was a year in the making after a major investigation that used informants at food processing plants. but this 11-year-old girl, all she knows is that her dad was taken away from her. >> government, please let my parents be with me and everybody else, please. don't leave the children with crying and everything. i need my dad with me. my dad didn't do nothing. he's not a criminal. >> listen to another child, a 12-year-old as she asks for her mother. you can hear her weeping in this clip recorded bay womy a woman n the scene. [ speaking foreign language ]