Perfect storm as mass deportations collide with city of immigrants

At the end of this week, the tensions they wandered in the Los Angeles region set a week after the conjunction of immigration in the region violent protests against the Trump administration and the Immigration Enforcement Agency (ICE).

President Donald Trump’s decision to send 700 US Navy and 4,000 National Guard forces to the Los Angeles region to support the federal response to the unrest, has opened a volatile chapter in the mass deportation campaign.

The site of subsequent raids and protests-a city with liberal tendencies in a state-controlled state-for the White House, gave perfect general frustration as it seeks to show progress in the removal of illegal immigrants, law and order fees.

The Governor Javin News, a democratic and prominent critic of the president, wrote that the deployment of the forces was “a distorted imagination of a dictatorial president.”

The raids are revealed in the second largest city in America against the backdrop of an aggressive batch to raise the numbers of detention and deportation, as the administration was disappointed by its current pace.

Ice has increased its enforcement procedures in recent weeks as it has pressure to show progress in the Trump signature initiative.

The agency arrested 2,200 people on June 4, according to the NBC News, a one -day record.

The network stated that hundreds of their arrest were registered in a program known as an alternative to detention, which allows the launch and control of individuals not an immediate threat.

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, the man who is widely seen as the intellectual architect of the deportation policy, has repeatedly said that the White House hopes that the ice will be able to expand up to 3000 arrests per day, up from 660 or so during the first hundred days of Trump’s presidency.

“President Trump will continue to pay to get this number at the top of every day,” Miller told Fox News in late May.

However, in most of the first hundred days of the administration, the deportations were equal with the times below, which were recorded during the last year of Joe Biden.

The White House stopped publishing daily deportations early in 2020.

“I am not satisfied with the numbers. “We need to increase.”

Human added that the Trump administration “increased the difference” and that “we expect a rapid increase in the number of arrests.”

Several senior ice officials – including Kenneth Genalo, have left a senior deportation official – their roles in the agency in recent months.

In February, ICE also transferred senior officials overseeing deportation, as well as agency manager, Calip Vettelo.

At the time of the most recent expression, the agency described the move as an organizational reorganization “that will help Ice achieve President Trump and authorize the American people to arrest illegal foreigners and make American societies safe.”

The Ministry of Internal Security said in a press statement that the migrants detained in the recent Los Angeles raids included individuals convicted of sexual crimes, robbery, and drug -related accusations, among other crimes.

However, local immigration defenders and community members say that families are torn by non -violent immigrants.

In a mass rally on Monday, Ysabel Jurado, a member of the Los Angeles City Council, said that the Friday raid in a warehouse in the fashion area “was not related to public safety, as it was violence of fear, the state’s violence designed to intimidation, and disappearance.”

While opinion policies show that Trump’s immigration policies are popular with most Americans, some of his supporters have expressed concern about tactics.

Participant founder of Latinas for Trump, for example, Ileana Garcia, on X that “this is not what we voted for.”

She added, “I understand the importance of deporting criminal foreigners, but what we are witnessing is arbitrary measures to search for people who comply with their immigration sessions – in many cases, with my credibility fear of allegations – all of which are driven by a mill -like desire to satisfy the goal of self -decline.”

The federal authorities have made more frequent immigration raids throughout the United States, in the states that tend to both Democrats and Republicans. Some of the Republican -controlled states, such as Tennessee, helped federal authorities.

“California was ready to resist,” said John Asifido, Associate Dean of the Law College of Emory, who is studying freedom of expression and protests in the United States.

Pictures of violence and resistance in the streets of Los Angeles Trump gave an incentive to spread the National Guard.

“As for his base, he does a little. He appears to be serious, and allows them to show that he will use all the necessary means to impose it [immigration] The rules, “said Professor Asifido.

The demonstrators in Los Angeles – which calls itself the city of Malaz, did not enjoy, which means that it limits cooperation with the enforcement of federal immigration – the role they believe is the administration has chosen for their city.

“This is my popularity, as you know, I am fighting for us,” said Maria Guterres, an American -American American in the region.

The disturbances included looting and burning at least one car. The authorities used rubber bullets and tear gas.

She said that there was some protest in Los Angeles, including those in the nearby city of Compton, which believes that they were protecting the city from enforcing immigration and saw the Trump administration threats as a challenge.

Mrs. Guterres believed that uncomfortable immigrants who commit violent crimes should be targeted, but not those who think they are working hard and looking into a better life.

“This is our city. We are angry, we know how to protect ourselves and this will not frighten us,” she said.

But society is not united to support the protests that have acquired national attention.

Juan, who lives near Paramount, came to the United States illegally and later became a citizen, but supports ICE actions.

“Isse agents have a job, just like you,” said Juan, who asked the BBC to block his last name in the area.

He said he was working for years as a day worker, but he gained citizenship and has four children who graduated from college.

“It is difficult,” he said. “I have a family that does not have papers either.

“But you cannot really fight it if you are here and not supposed to be.”

“A crime is a crime.”