Complaint Raids Against Undocumented

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

The Trump administration has launched a series of raids, checks and roadblocks in several states of the country in which an indeterminate number of undocumented immigrants have been detained in the last two days, different pro-immigrant organizations said on Friday.

"In the past 24 hours, hundreds of immigrants have been assaulted and detained, and members of the community - both people without immigration documents and US citizens - have been asked for their documents at highway checkpoints," they said in a statement. of press organizations Firm and United We Dream.

The news of the arrests has raised enormous alarm among the undocumented population across the country, who fears that President Donald Trump will end up keeping his promise to deport all of the estimated 10 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States.

Although the same president later clarified that his priority was to deport those who turned out to be a danger, his critics point out that recent cases show that among those expelled there are people who have not committed any crime.

A spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security confirmed to the Washington Post that immigration agents have carried out operations this week in residences and work centers in Atlanta, Los Angeles and two other cities that it did not name, as part of the "routine" jobs of agencies.

Pro-immigrant organizations said raids were also carried out in Vista, Pomona and Compton, California; Austin, Dallas, and Pflugerville, Texas; Plant City, Florida; Alexandria and Annandale, Virginia; Charlotte and Burlington, North Carolina, plus the Hudson Valley region of New York and the city of Wichita, Kansas.

Among the most dramatic and alarming cases has been that of Guadalupe García de Rayos, who came to this country as a 14-year-old undocumented teenager in 1996. The woman of Mexican origin, who has two children born in the United States, was Arrested in a 2008 raid and charged with identity theft for using a Social Security number to work that was not hers.

Since then, an immigration ordeal began that kept her appealing a decision to deport to Mexico. Finally, under the previous administration, she was authorized to stay in the country on the condition of periodically appearing at the office of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE) for the review of her case.

When it was Thursday, the authorities surprised her, announcing that she was detained and that she would be immediately deported.

His arrest has sparked outrage and protests across the country, as well as fill millions of undocumented immigrants who have lives and established families in the United States with fear.

Although there are no clear figures yet and the authorities have not given any balance, the defenders of the undocumented ones assured that only in the Los Angeles metropolitan area there would have been more than 100 arrests and the number could reach up to 130.

The director of the Los Angeles Immigrant Human Rights Coalition, Angélica Salas, told EFE that they have received a number of calls about unusual immigration operations. "We have been working with the community for 30 years and we can say, from our experience, that yesterday was not a normal day, and this looks like a coordinated operation."