The masked and armed federal agents carried out radical immigration raids in Los Angeles on Friday, while others pounced on migrants in a New York court in forceful exhibitions of the repression of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, against people without documents.
From courts to hardware parking lots in two of the most diverse cities in the world, federal agents fought against migrants with wives and unmarked vehicles.
The agents used extreme tactics, making unprecedented raids in at least three areas of Los Angeles to stop dozens of people.
In a sweep to less than two miles from the City Council of Los Angeles, the agents threw explosion grenades to disperse multitudes of angry people after a convoy of immigration vehicles and customs application (ICE) while the protesters threw eggs and epithets in the agents, the media reported.
“As mayor of a proud city of immigrants, which contribute to our city in many ways, I am deeply angry about what has happened,” said Mayor Karen Bass in a statement.
“These tactics sow terror in our communities and interrupt the basic security principles in our city.”
The White House Cabinet Deputy Director Stephen Miller, who grew up in Santa Monica de los Ángeles, insisted on the social media platform X that Bass had “anything in this.”
“Federal law is supreme and federal law will apply.”
The leader of the International Union of Service Employees, David Huerta, was briefly arrested while documented one of the raids in Los Angeles, according to media reports.
“The working people and the members of our family and our community are being treated as criminals,” said Huerta in a statement after their release.
The National Security Research Spokesman Yasmeen Pitts O’Keefe Los Angeles Times that federal agents were executing search orders related to the port of people illegally in the country.
Hundreds of protesters gathered in downtown Los Angeles on Friday afternoon to demand the launch of detainees, announcer ABC7 reported.
The police were ordered that the police be ordered to a large extent peaceful, with some violent clashes between protesters and the riot police.
Arrests in the New York Court
Throughout the country, civil agents in New York pounced on two immigrants in the hall of a court on Friday.
Trump was chosen for a second mandate with broad support for his promise to take energetic measures at the entrance and presence of undocumented migrants. ICE agents have intensified such operations in and around the American immigration courts in recent weeks.
The National Security Department revoked the regulations that agents limited to protected areas, such as courts, after Trump returned to office in January.
One of the men arrested in New York was Joaquín Rosario, a 34 -year -old Dominican who arrived in the United States a year ago, registered when he entered and had his first immigration hearing on Friday, said his relative Julian Rosario.
“He felt comfortable. He did not believe that something was going to happen,” said the relative, adding that Rosario was so innate that he had not brought his lawyer with him.
The other detainee seemed to be Asian. He arrived only by one of the many volunteers of the Immigration Defense Group who walk immigrants to and from the courtroom. The volunteers shouted when the agents arrested the two men, but did nothing to stop the raid.
‘Sound the alarm’
Human rights groups are outraged by such operations, arguing that they trust the courts and make immigrants distrust each other to appointments while trying to obtain residence in the United States.
“They are illegal kidnappings,” said Karen Ortiz, a court employee who was demonstrating on Friday against the sudden arrests of migrants.
“We need to sound the alarm and show the public how serious this is and a way in which we can do that is actually putting us physically between a masked ice agent and someone who tries to stop and send,” she said, “she said. AFP.
Trump has dramatically tried the limits of the Executive Power to take energetic measures against foreigners without documents since he returned to office, arguing that the United States is being invaded by criminals and other undesirable.
