MORTON, Mississippi: Residents here rallied around terrified children left with no parents and migrants locked themselves in their homes for fear of being arrested Thursday (Friday in Manila), a day after the United States’ largest immigration raid in a decade.

A total of 680 people were arrested in midnight raids Thursday, but more than 300 had been released by morning with notices to appear before immigration judges, said US Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Bryan Cox.

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