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Week In News: August 9, 2019

Rogelio V. Solis
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AP
A man taken into custody at a Koch Foods Inc. plant in Morton, Miss., Wednesday. Immigration officials raided several Mississippi food processing plants on Wednesday and signaled that the strikes were part of a large operation targeting owners and staff.

We look at the “red flag” laws in Connecticut, how the recent violence in El Paso and the raids in Mississippi are impacting immigrant communities on Long Island and where our local representatives in Washington stand on impeachment proceedings. Our guests: