Relentless immigration raids are changing California’s way of life

When immigration agents came to the farm where he was working, Jaei Alanis tried to hide him.

Mr. Alanis hoped that he would stay for dozens of his co -workers, as he climbed to a greenhouse, while the agents assembled and arrested dozens of his co -workers below, staying away from view.

Then he fell.

Its neck was broken and the skull is broken. He later died in the hospital.

Meanwhile, immigration agents fired tear gas at a crowd of 500 demonstrators, who gathered to stop the raids outside two legal farms. Some threw rocks, and the FBI says One of them gave a pistol to federal agents.

The death of Mr. Alaneis, and the violent coincidence that followed in cannabis farms, is the latest examination of the type of chaos that has swept southern California since the beginning of June, when immigration raids began to intensify in the region.

This campaign sparked protests, which led to the deployment of US President Donald Trump, the National Guard and the US Marine, to protect federal officers from demonstrators and to ensure the implementation of his mass deportations, which he has long promised.

While many Americans support President Trump’s difficult policies, the lack of raids in the region has sparked a violent reaction from neighbors and activists. Southern California is a home of an estimated 1.4 million illegal immigrants, many of whom have been forced to hide – very afraid to go to work, school, or even the grocery store.

In doing this, the raids changed the scene of one of the most populated areas in the country. Companies are closed, and cities have canceled community events – including fourth fireworks celebrations of July.

“Everyone looks at their shoulders. When I prepared the ice flying with sweet strawberry syrup, it looked cautious about the questions but it is grateful to the customer,” says “Raspado” in Los Angeles on the last Sunday, where they were crowded soccer fields and picnic tables.

She said, “This is not like this.”

The raids are now described on two cannabis farms as the largest migration process since President Trump took office.

Of the 361 migrants held during these raids, he had four “wide” criminal records, including rape, kidnapping and trying to harass children, the media said. Immigration officers also found 14 migrant children, the administration was rescued from potential exploitation, forced labor and human trafficking.

While the administration is often highlighted, convicted, murderers, and drug dealers who were arrested in operations, dozens of migrants have been arrested – there are not many criminal convictions who spent contracts in building companies, families and homes – at the intersection.

“They are kidnapped,” says Carlos, who did not want his last full name. He was very afraid to go to work since his sister Emma was arrested while selling taco sandwiches outside a home warehouse last month. “If you are brown, if you are of Spanish origin, then they only come, meet you and take you.”

The Trump administration says allegations that people are targeted because of their “disgusting” and liar color.

Carlos says he is somewhat safe from federal California judge ordered the Trump administration to stop “Random” detention of persons with “mobile patrols” for federal agents. But he does not trust that they will stop, and need to return to work.

He says, “How will I pay my rent.” “I am stuck inside.”

Churches and immigrant rights groups regulate food delivery to people who are hiding. They were also training people to protect migrants in the streets using applications, text chains and social media to alert people when the federal agents were close.

When dozens of armed factors descended in camouflage in Mac Arthur on horse appearance and armored vehicles earlier this month, few were surprised.

Word spread quickly from the operation – and rumors spread that “La Migra” was coming hours before the forces arrived. Dozens of demonstrators gathered to salute the forces – including the Los Angeles Karen Bass mayor, who demanded to leave the park.

Witnesses say there were no arrests and no one was looked at running for escaping. By the time the forces – with the professional camera sets that recorded the public offer of power – arrived – the only people in the garden were the demonstrators, some children in a summer camp, and some people who have no shelter asleep in the grass.

“It was hard,” says Pitci Bolt, who lives near the garden and came to protest and shouts at the agents.

“It is a war against people – the heart and spirit of the economy. Everything is intended. It is part of the plan,” she said while she was crying while showing journalists.

Activists accuse the government of intimidating its people.

“This is part of the terrorist program. From Los Angeles to the Central Coast, the Trump administration is collecting the federal government and the army against the inhabitants of California,” says the Da`wah group.

But not all California residents agree.

President Trump won 38 % of polling cards in November. newly, BBC appeared the story of one woman Who is still dedicated to the president and the public deportation plans, even during its detention as an illegal immigrant.

One of Trump’s supporters appeared in the protest on the cannabis farm last week, only to beat and spit and spit by the demonstrators.

Perhaps it is irony that the engineer of many deportation policies Trump Trump is Angelino himself. White House assistant chief Stephen Miller grew up in the liberal Santa Monica, where he was known even when he was a teenager in the province’s radio to condemn the use of Spanish in his school.

He told Fox News this week that the “violent” democratic politicians in California who appear to protest were inciting violence against federal immigration agents.

He said, “No city can help and incite the invasion of this country because of the will of the American people and law enforcement officers who were enabled from the age of the American people,” he said.

Tom Human, President Trump Trump, says Los Angeles, Los Angeles is responsible that the laws of Los Angeles have prohibited local law enforcement from cooperating with immigration agents inside prisons, where they can detain migrant criminals outside the public.

“We will double down, and we offer three times in the cities of the haven,” Mr. Human told reporters, adding that they do not have such public public raids in Florida because all police there allowed the immigration agent to enter the prisons detained for immigrants.

“If they do not allow us to arrest the bad man in the province’s prison, they will arrest them in society. We will arrest them at a workplace.”

In Los Angeles, the effect of the month of raids is noticeable. In the gardens and neighborhoods that were once hindered with shoppers, traffic, music and street vendors, the absence of familiar sounds is strange.

There are 88 cities in Los Angeles Province, many of which have abolished general summer events due to continuous migration enforcement activity.

“Many residents have expressed fear and uncertainty, which led them to stay at home, refrain from work, and withdraw from daily public life,” Huntington Park said in a statement about the canceled events. “Our priority will remain the safety and comfort of our society.

Now some immigrants are afraid to come to their scheduled sessions, because they are being held outside the court.

Reverend Ara Torusian of the Cornerstone Church in West Los Angeles said that the largest part of the Persian languages were asylum in asylum. A couple was arrested with a three -year -old daughter outside the court when they came when they thought it was a “routine” session. They are now in Texas at the family detention center.

Five members of his group were detained in June – two of them on the street, while Reverend Torusian photographed the agents to stop.

“They are not criminals,” he said. “They obeyed everything, not hiding anything.”