“As a federal agency, ICE has jurisdiction and doesn’t have to tell us when they are conducting operations in Austin”, APD Interim Chief Brian Manley said Friday. The deportation was widely seen as just the beginning of Trump’s xenophobic campaign against peaceful undocumented immigrants.
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On Thursday night protesters rallied downtown.
Immigration officials say they aren’t. ICE officials arrested about 160 people in Southern California alone. That year was under the Obama administration. “What would happen if we had said to those people they had no due process right?” However, immigrant advocates, and even the Mexican government, are skeptical.
Action North Carolina and other community members held a press conference Friday morning expressing concern that immigrants, not just those that are here illegally, are living in fear.
In the wake of the news, advocates also resurfaced a rights flier and ICE Raids Toollkit previously published by the Immigration Defense Project, which works for legal justice for immigrants in the United States.
“I’m asking ICE to clarify whether these individuals are in fact unsafe, violent threats to our communities, and not people who are here peacefully raising families and contributing to our state”, Castro’s statement reads. “Now I’ve got to go ahead and calm people’s fears”. Of the other 10, five had been ordered deported or had been deported in the past. Began by the Bush administration and expanded by Obama, this program partnered ICE officials with local jails to aid in the sharing of biometric data.
As we reported in the Two-Way, the majority of people in this country illegally are concentrated in 20 metropolitan areas in the country. In July, for example, ICE publicized a similar effort that caught 112 people. ICE officials denied that authorities used checkpoints during the operations.
Marin declined to discuss any connection between the raids and the president’s recent executive order, except to say that the operations had been planned for weeks before that order was issued.
Karla Navarrete, a lawyer for CHIRLA, said she sought to stop Mosqueda from being placed on a bus to Mexico and was told by ICE that things had changed. “There is a heightened level of anxiety, there’s a heightened level of fear because of everything that is happening”. The Trump administration’s move to scapegoat millions of immigrants is part of a broader attack on the democratic rights of the working class as a whole.
“ICE has never been trained or participating in fare enforcement and would not know what they would be looking for if they did (try to enforce fares)”, she said in an email. Tony Cardenas, D-Calif., said in a statement Thursday evening. She said another lawyer filed federal court papers to halt his removal.
Cox said about 200 people were arrested this week across Georgia, North Carolina and SC, adding that the number of arrests were roughly split between the states.
The 95-percent male sweep included a Mara Salvatrucha gang member in Huntington Park wanted for alleged extortion in El Salvador, a Brazilian in L.A. suspected of cocaine trafficking in his homeland and an Australian in West Hollywood convicted of lewd acts with a child, ICE officials said.
David Marin, ICE field office director for enforcement and removal operations in greater Los Angeles, said the agency carries out these operations two or three times a year in his region.
Put simply, that means that if someone doesn’t break the law and doesn’t get taken to the Whitfield County jail, their immigration status can’t be checked by local law enforcement. “We tend to believe what our community tells us”.
In the metro area of Savannah, Georgia, ICE agents picked up 26 people, according to news reports.
“There’s always rumors”, Mendoza said.
But Salas says she finds it troubling that following Thursday’s actions, there was little to no communication with the agency. The man has been living in the United States for 27 years, has no criminal record and has a wife and four US -born children. “That’s disgusting, to even have to consider that”, she said.
A single dad, Mares raised his daughter after her mother left them years ago.
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Mares said she’s anxious about how her father will get by in Mexico, adding that he’s now in a motel in Tijuana. “He knows some Spanish”.
