There Is No Word for a Child's Fear... But There Is a Name For That Fear Now And It Belongs to trump

A few weeks back, trump and his ICE thugs had openly talked about raiding ten major "Sanctuary" cities to "arrest" (actually kidnap) thousands of "undocumented illegals" (anybody with dark skin and no paperwork to prove who they are), but those raids either never happened or fizzled out. The understanding post-panic was that it was trump and the anti-immigrant bastards doing their upmost to scare Hispanic-Americans into fearing the worst.

Well, yesterday, the worst finally happened in Mississippi (via Sarah Fowler at the Clarion Ledger):

A Scott County child started kindergarten Tuesday. Wednesday, while the child was at school, their parent was arrested by federal agents, one of 680 people taken into custody after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducted seven raids at food processing plants across Mississippi.

Superintendent Tony McGee said, as of Wednesday afternoon, he knew of at least six families within the district that had a parent caught up in the raids. The students range from kindergarten to high school.

McGee, who met with ICE officials after the raids, said he expected the number to increase. 

The raids happened in small towns near Jackson with a workforce made up largely of Latino immigrants. The towns hit include Bay Springs, Carthage, Canton, Morton, Pelahatchie and Sebastapol.

Reports from the scene of the raids mentioned children waving goodbye to their parents as the adults were taken into custody. It is not publicly known how many children are being impacted by the arrests.

In Scott County, teachers and staff are on standby. To make sure a child doesn't go home to an empty house, bus drivers have been given strict instructions to have a "visual reference to a parent or guardian" before they drop the student off. If there is not a parent home, the child will be taken back to school, McGee said... 

This wasn't an attempt to rein in street gangs. This wasn't a law and order situation.

They arrested families. They attacked people who worked for a living (and likely paid more in taxes than any rich man ever would). They attacked mothers and fathers (on the first day of school in the state, no less. THEY KNEW what they were doing). They abandoned children to empty homes without meals, without supervision, without answers.

The goddamn wingnuts wanted scalps.

The racists wanted to terrify Latinos (and other ethnics).

And now children are scared. And now parents are locked away, terrified about what might happen to their kids. I wouldn't be surprised if ICE personnel started forcing mothers and fathers to sign away their lives on any form shoved in their face if they were promised the safety of their children. Any coerced confession to Gods knows whatever the hell the bullies want out of their victims.

This is a nightmare.

This is exactly what trump and the goddamn Republicans want.

For everyone not White to be afraid.