authorities to cooperate with i.c.e., you won t get good information from the migrant communities who might have criminal information but they don t want to come forward with it. how do you answer that? ron: i ve been around the community and worked on the border as a border patrol agent. people want the law enforced. when they are a victim of these crimes, what matt said, these offenses occur in the immigrant community and they more than happy to work with authorities to get the criminals off the street. john: 1300 arrests this week through immigrations and customs enforcement and 200 people who could have been arrested if there detainer had been honored. in other words it would ve been a whole lot easier to get some of these pickups if local authorities were cooperating, right? ron: that s correct. it s much safer for them to take those people into custody in the jail setting.
except those made by certain military members and veterans. requests must now be made to immigrations and customs enforcement. the agency responsible for removing people from the country. i.c.e. officials said the department had been been notified in advance. in a statement, they said as for any request for deferred action, i.c.e. reviews each case on its own merits and exercises appropriate discretion after reviewing all facts. candidates are weighing in and slamming the administration over the move. seeking to deport sick kids seeking life-saving medical treatment in the united states. like every bully, he s trying to make himself seem stronger by picking on the most vulnerable among us. i believe we need to exercise common sense and compassion when it comes to migrants.
[ bleep ]. [ bleep ]. an officer at a rhode island i.c.e. detention facility has been placed on administrative leave after he drove that truck into a line of protesters demanding they cease cooperation with immigrations and customs enforcement. the incident was captured on video. witnesses say the pickup truck intentionally swerved into protesters seated across from the entrance to the facility. five people were hospitalized. the group never again action says dozens of people showed up wednesday night to protest the action of i.c.e. 129 people were housed. conflicting signals are giving investors a pause.
is in detention centers that attorneys call black holes. they say detainees can be unreachable for days. it s happening in rural areas of the deep south where most people don t even know these facilities exist. along the winding roads of the american deep south, the immigration battle has a new front line. so this is the facility where he is staying. this is it. reporter: this is adams county correctional center in mississippi, a private prison now contracted to immigrations and customs enforcement. we are outside one of the detention centers in mississippi. the men behind me are shouting in spanish. it s more than one of a dozen such facilities in louisiana and mississippi, now holding more than 8,000 i.c.e. detainees shared with new details from nbc
the begging for their parents. president trump said raids like these are a, quote, very good deterrent for undocumented immigrants. and the white house has told immigrations and customs enforcement to conduct dozens more raids like this. but we see these images, and we wonder. i spoke with dr. louis krouse, he s chief of child psychologist at rush medical center and asked him what happens to children s minds and bodies when they re taken from parents in such a jolting way. here s what he told us. what s horrible they have this well put together raid on these parents for god knows what reason, but nobody has thought through what to do about the children, without their parents what type of interventions are needed. it s as though nobody cared. let s remind everybody what was happening with these children. what they were left with. let s take a look.