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One morning, when JR awoke, an image lingered from his dreams: The wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, and above it a young kid peering curiously over.

A child just 1 year old, who has "no idea that's a wall that divides people - he has no idea of the political context," JR imagined. "What is he thinking?"

He had no answers to his question, but the question stayed with him - and eventually, the French street artist decided to give it form. This week, within days of the Trump administration's decision to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program protecting 800,000 immigrants, JR erected a massive artwork towering dozens of feet above the existing wall.

The boy, hair swept to the side and focus drawn by an unseen object, peeks with evident interest from the Mexican side over the slats of the wall at Tecate, Calif., as if looking over the railing of his crib.

And as JR tells it, he didn't have to search long for the work's inspiration. While seeking residents willing to let him build on their land, he met a woman who was game for the project - and as they spoke, he noticed a little interloper eavesdropping on their conversation: her son.

"There was a little kid looking at us the whole time with two hands on the side of his crib looking at us," the artist who goes by the pseudonym JR tells NPR's Ari Shapiro, "and I was like, 'Damn he looks exactly like that kid I dreamed of.' "

With the mother's permission, he took the child's photograph, blew it up to gargantuan proportions and enlisted help to get the work built.

The project was something of a change of pace for the artist, who typically works in a different manner - placing images of his own creation onto walls, rather than building around them. For him, walls have often been a kind of canvas, rather than a means of dividing people. But with this work, one of his goals was clear from the start: "Basically, we had to build a bigger wall to make this [border] wall look ridiculous."

Then, his work in California happened to dovetail with events in Washington, D.C.

After Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Tuesday that Trump would implement a six-month wind-down of DACA, an Obama-era program that protected certain immigrants who were brought to this country illegally as children, suddenly people began reaching out to JR on Instagram and elsewhere. And many of these new correspondents were people covered by DACA themselves, who fear for their status even as the wind-down is set to be litigated in court.

But that's not quite what touched him the most, he says: "Most of the people, if you read the comments, they were not talking politics or they didn't mention the name of the president. It was about people."

As a French national, he is only just "discovering this whole context," he says, and "by going there I get to learn and hear about it from the people and be able to engage in a discussion."

And he hopes that while the artwork is up for another month or so, discussion happens not just between people on either side of the wall, but actually through its slats - in other words, across the border itself.

Ultimately, he thinks of something he heard from the mother, who from her window now looks up to see the massive silhouette of her child every day.

"She said, you know, it's my son and I can recognize him, but I hope for the others, it represents any kid, any person - anyone that has dreams, and dreams that are not alienated by any political vision or any prejudice," JR says.

"I couldn't wish better for the start of a discussion."

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As Boy Peers Curiously Over Border Wall, His Artist Asks: 'What Is He Thinking?'

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JR, a French street artist, hasn't answered that question - and that's the point. His massive artwork on the border, which coincided with the decision to rescind DACA, is the "start of a discussion."

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The New Colossus

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A top US immigration official has revised a quote inscribed on the Statue of Liberty in defence of a new policy that denies food aid to legal migrants.

The head of Citizenship and Immigration Services tweaked the passage: "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free".

The official added the words "who can stand on their own two feet and who will not become a public charge".

It comes as Trump officials debuted a regulation that denies aid to migrants.

Ken Cuccinelli, the Trump administration's acting head of Citizenship and Immigration Services, announced on Monday a new "public charge" requirement that limits legal migrants from seeking certain public benefits such as public housing or food aid, or are considered likely to do so in the future.

The new regulation, known as a "public charge rule", was published in the Federal Register on Monday and will take effect on 15 October.

The rule change is intended to reinforce "ideals of self-sufficiency", officials said. Critics argue that it will prevent low-income US residents from seeking help.

Trump targets legal migrants who get food aid

What did the official say?

On Tuesday, Mr Cuccinelli was asked by NPR whether the 1883 poem titled The New Colossus at the Statue of Liberty on New York's Ellis Island still applied.

"Would you also agree that Emma Lazarus's words etched on the Statue of Liberty, 'Give me your tired, give me your poor,' are also a part of the American ethos?" asked NPR's Rachel Martin.

"They certainly are," Mr Cuccinelli responded. "Give me your tired and your poor - who can stand on their own two feet and who will not become a public charge."

"That plaque was put on the Statue of Liberty at almost the same time as the first public charge [law] was passed - very interesting timing," he added.

The actual passage reads in part: "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

In the interview, he added that immigrants are welcome "who can stand on their own two feet, be self-sufficient, pull themselves up by their bootstraps, again, as in the American tradition".

After the host asked if the policy "appears to change the definition of the American dream," he said: "We invite people to come here and join us as a privilege.

"No one has a right to become an American who isn't born here as an American."

Who will be affected by the new rule?

Immigrants who are already permanent residents in the US are unlikely to be affected by the rule change.

It also does not apply to refugees and asylum applicants.

What's the state of illegal immigration in US?

Six surprising statistics about immigrants in the US

But applicants for visa extensions, green cards or US citizenship will be subject to the change.

Those who do not meet income standards or who are deemed likely to rely on benefits such as Medicaid (government-run healthcare) or housing vouchers in future may be blocked from entering the country.

Those already in the US could also have their applications rejected.

An estimated 22 million legal residents in the US are without citizenship, and many of these are likely to be affected.

President Trump has made immigration a central theme of his administration. This latest move is part of his government's efforts to curb legal immigration.

What has reaction been?

The Democratic led House Homeland Security Committee condemned Mr Cuccinelli's revision in a tweet, calling the words "vile and un-American".

"It's clear the Trump Administration just wants to keep certain people out," the committee wrote, calling Mr Cuccinelli "a xenophobic, anti-immigrant fringe figure who has no business being in government".

Others pointed to his background as the attorney general of Virginia, in which he led a conservative campaign against immigration and homosexuality.

Asked about Mr Cuccinelli's remarks on Tuesday, President Trump did not directly respond to the Statue of Liberty quote, but said: "I don't think it's fair to have the American taxpayer pay for people to come into the United States."

"I'm tired of seeing our taxpayer paying for people to come into the country and immediately go onto welfare and various other things.

"So I think we're doing it right."

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A top US immigration official has revised a quote inscribed on the Statue of Liberty in defence of a new policy that denies food aid to legal migrants. The head of Citizenship and Immigration Services tweaked the passage: "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free".

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Handcuffed female workers are escorted onto a bus on Wednesday after a raid by U.S. immigration officials at a Koch Foods plant in Morton, Miss. Credit Credit Rogelio V. Solis/Associated Press

Federal agents raided several companies across Mississippi on Wednesday, rounding up hundreds of immigrant workers in what federal officials said might be the largest worksite enforcement action ever in a single state.

In a coordinated sting, more than 600 agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement showed up at the sites with federal warrants that allowed them to search the premises. About 680 immigrants who were believed to be working without legal documentation were apprehended and taken away on buses.

Lindsay Williams, a spokesman for the agency, said the federal agents executed the search warrants in conjunction with the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Mississippi.

The operation was the culmination of a yearlong investigation, and it unfolded just hours before President Trump - who has made illegal immigration a trademark issue and who recently vowed to deport millions of undocumented immigrants - arrived in El Paso, a majority Latino city on the Mexico border where 22 people were killed over the weekend in an attack that federal authorities are investigating as an act of domestic terrorism.

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The raids were by far the largest to occur since Mr. Trump took office, and the biggest since December 2006, when more than 1,200 people were swept up in a raid at several units of a meat processing company.

Three poultry plants that are owned and operated by Peco Foods in three towns, and a fourth run by Koch Foods, in Morton, Miss., were among the facilities raided on Wednesday.

Mayor William Truly of Canton told the local ABC affiliate that federal agents had identified workers who were in the country illegally and rounded them up, put them in buses and took them away.

Three buses took migrants who had been arrested at Koch Foods to a National Guard base.

"Those who were arrested are being processed and they are being given their due process," Mr. Williams said.

One woman who said she was a lead worker at the Koch Foods plant told a local television station, WAPT, that ICE agents had come into the building and ordered employees to line up and walk outside.

"That's all our workers - half of the plant!" she said of the detained workers. "I just know it's messed up because we've got to think about the kids and everything. I mean, who's going to get their kids?"

The woman, who was not identified, said multiple buses had already left the area with detained workers.

Other women said in a video posted on social media that they were worried about a 12-year-old girl whose mother was being questioned by officers inside the plant. A girl could be heard wailing in the background. A girl no more than three feet tall slowly waddled toward the metal gate to look, with other workers, at those who were being detained.

Photographs and videos showed groups of people waving as buses drove away. Others wiped tears away or held on to a metal gate outside of the plant in Morton, Miss., as they watched officers carry out the operation.

Men and women walked in boots with their hands zip-tied behind their backs. Other detained employees sat on the grass or near large, white silos on the company property.

"We have officially returned to the era of massive worksite raids," said Ali Noorani, executive director of the National Immigration Forum, an advocacy organization. "The net result will be immigrant workers pushed further underground, families separated and local economies decimated. The American worker and their family lose their neighbors, fellow church members and friends."

"The American economy loses a work force that is contributing in more ways than we can imagine," he continued. "And, along the way, we are no safer as immigrant communities are pushed further from law enforcement."

The poultry industry has long relied on immigrant labor to do the physically taxing work of cutting, cleaning, deboning and packing chicken in cold, sometimes dangerous conditions.

In statements, both poultry processors said they utilized E-Verify, a government electronic system designed to confirm that employees are eligible to work in the United States.

Immigrants eager for work traditionally have used fake Social Security numbers and green cards to secure jobs. But those do not pass E-Verify. Thus, in recent years, more immigrants have resorted to using the identities of legal United States residents, the identities of dead citizens, or the Social Security numbers of their American-born children to pass the electronic verification program.

After The New York Times revealed last December that Mr. Trump's golf resorts employed undocumented immigrants, the Trump Organization terminated dozens of workers and said that it had begun to use E-Verify. The company has faced no penalties for hiring housekeepers, groundskeepers and cooks who used phony documents to obtain employment, some with the knowledge of at least one manager in New Jersey.
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Peco Foods, which is based in Tuscaloosa, Ala., is described on its website as a "fully integrated grower, processor and marketer" of poultry products. The 80-year-old company is family-owned, according to the website.

In a statement, the company confirmed that three of its facilities in Mississippi - in Bay Springs, Canton and Sebastopol - had been raided. It said it had adhered to all local, state and federal laws and had used E-Verify to screen its new hires.

Koch Foods, one of the country's largest poultry processors with more than $3 billion in annual sales and with plants around the country, employs more than 10,000 people. The company was subjected to immigration enforcement action in 2007.

"The chicken industry uses every tool in the toolbox, including E-Verify, to help ensure a legal work force," said Tom Super, a spokesman for the National Chicken Council, whose members include Koch Foods. "And we've been strong advocates before Congress to make those tools even stronger."

The coordinated sweeps on Wednesday were reminiscent of large-scale raids on meatpacking plants that occurred during the administration of President George W. Bush.

In one prominent case in Postville, Iowa, in May 2008, agents backed by air and ground support descended on a kosher meat processing plant called Agriprocessors and arrested nearly 400 workers.

Last June, about 150 workers were arrested during a raid on a gardening and landscaping company in Ohio. And in April last year, immigration agents detained nearly 100 workers at a meatpacking plant in Morristown, Tenn. The owner of that facility was sentenced to 18 months in prison.
[ICE Came for a Tennessee Town's Immigrants. The Town Fought Back.]
"It's all part of a concerted effort by this administration to target not only the individuals in the United States unlawfully but also the companies that are employing them," said Dawn Lurie, a lawyer who specializes in immigration compliance.

Last month, ICE agents converged on thousands of companies across the country to notify them that they had to submit hiring records so authorities could confirm that their employees were eligible to work in the United States. Often, those audits result in civil fines levied against the companies and the loss of a significant number of workers.

Mike Hurst, the United States attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi, said in a statement that Wednesday's action "is believed to be the largest single-state immigration enforcement operation in our nation's history."

In a statement, ICE said that everyone who was arrested on Wednesday was being interviewed "to record any potential mitigating humanitarian situations" that would determine who would remain detained and who might be released from custody.

In all cases, the agency said, everyone was being sent to immigration court. For those who had already been ordered to leave the country, they would be processed and deported.

Sources close to the Department of Homeland Security said they recognized that the optics were difficult following the El Paso shooting, one of two mass shootings over the weekend that killed a total of 31 people. But preparation for the operation had been underway, with hundreds of government operatives flown in days ago, they said.

Correction:

An earlier version of this article misidentified the organization for which Tom Super is a spokesman. It is the National Chicken Council, not Koch Foods.

Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs contributed reporting.

A version of this article appears in print on , Section A, Page 12 of the New York edition with the headline: Hundreds Arrested in ICE Raid in Mississippi. Order Reprints | Today's Paper | Subscribe

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Federal agents raided several companies across Mississippi on Wednesday, rounding up hundreds of immigrant workers in what federal officials said might be the largest worksite enforcement action ever in a single state. In a coordinated sting, more than 600 agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement showed up at the sites with federal warrants that allowed them to search the premises.

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U.S. Census Bureau 2000 Special Tabulation. Publié aux Editions Didier 2019

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This collection of oral history excerpts is from the Ellis Island Oral History Collection, which includes approximately 2,000 full interviews. The following audio clips (with accompanying transcripts) have been specifically selected to be useful in your classroom, either as part of a lesson plan from this website or integrated into your curriculum. For your convenience, both the audio file and the transcript can be accessed online and also downloaded and saved for use later without needing to be connected to the internet.

Trying New Foods

Immigrant Expectations

Traveling to America
Experience at Ellis Island Holding onto Homeland Traditions Adjusting to Life in America
Looking for ideas on how to utilize these oral histories in your classroom?

The Library of Congress' Using Primary Sources page for teachers contains steps for using primary sources in the classroom, teacher's guides, analysis tools, and other helpful information for teachers.

The National Archives' Getting Started with Primary Sources in the Classroom page for teachers contains information and resources about using primary sources, resources for National History Day, and links to "Today's Document" and "DocsTeach" online resources.

If you have any suggestions for other Oral History topics you would like to see available on this page, please e-mail us.

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Trump rally: Immigration policy in the spotlight

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The arrival of Irish immigrants in the 1860s

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Artists installed seesaws at the border so kids in the US and Mexico could play together

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It may seem like an ordinary scene: Children and adults playing on pink seesaws, carelessly laughing and chatting with each other

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"I am proof that parents who are legally seeking asylum are being separated from their children for seemingly no reason," writes Mirian G., who came to the US from Honduras, and was separated from her 18-month-old child.

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Why a Wall Won't Stop Immigration | Adam Ruins Everything

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"WE ARE BUILDING A WALL WHICH IS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY!" President Trump speaks at Phoenix Rally

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Tijuana: Where the American dream ends | DW English