Ideal storm when mass deportations face the city of immigrants

This weekend, the tensions boiled in the Los -Angeles area after a week of immigration intervals in the region, provoked fierce protests against the Trump administration and the immigration agency and the execution of customs bodies (ICE).

President Donald Trump’s decision to send 700 marine infantrymen and 4,000 troops of the National Guard to the Los -Angeles area to support the federal response to the excitement, opened a changing section in its mass deportation campaign.

Location of raids and subsequent protests-liberal city in the state, which is controlled by the Democrats, also gave the white home the perfect public foil when it seeks to demonstrate progress in removing illegal immigrants and instill law and order.

Governor Gavin News, a Democrat and a well -known critic of the president, wrote on X that the deployment of the squad was “withdrawn by the fantasy of the dictator’s president.”

Raids in the second largest city in America are unfolding amid an aggressive jolt to lift the amount of arrest and deportation because the administration was disappointed with its current pace.

Ice has strengthened its actions in recent weeks as it is facing pressure to demonstrate progress in Trump’s signature.

The agency arrested 2200 people on June 4, NBC News reports in one day.

The network reports that hundreds of arrested were enrolled in a program known as an alternative to detention that allows you to release and monitor people who are not considered a direct threat.

The Deputy Chief of Staff of the White House Stephen Miller, a man who is widely regarded as an intellectual architect of deportation policy, has repeatedly stated that the White House hoped that ice can scale up to 3,000 arrests a day, which is compared to 660 and so, in the first 100 days of Trump’s presidency.

“President Trump will continue to push to increase this amount every day,” Miller said at Fox News in late May.

However, for most of the first 100 days of the deportation administration were at the same level, and sometimes below, recorded over the last year of Joe Biden’s presidency.

The White House stopped publishing the daily deportation figures in early 2020.

“I am not satisfied with the numbers,” King Tom Khman said in late May. “We need to increase.”

Homan added that the Trump administration “significantly increased the teams” and that “we expect a rapid increase in the number of arrests.”

Several high -ranking ICE officials – including Kenneth Genala, his chief deportation official – left their roles in the agency in recent months.

In February, Ice also moved two top officials who oversee the deportation, as well as acting director of the Vitella Socialist Agency.

At the time of the later reshuffle, the agency described this step as organizational restructuring, which “will help Ice to reach the President of Trump and the Mandate of the American People on the arrest and deportation of illegal foreigners and make US communities safe.”

In the press release, the Internal Security Department said the immigrants detained in the Los -Andgeles raids included persons convicted of sexual offenses, theft and drug charges, among other crimes.

However, local immigration supporters and community members say families were torn and detained by non -violent immigrants.

At a rally on Monday, a member of the city council Los -Angeles Isabel Yurad said that on Friday at the warehouse in the fashion district “was not about public safety, but this is fear, state violence, called to remain silent, to disappear.”

While on opinion polls show that Trump’s immigration policy is popular with most Americans, some of his supporters expressed concern about tactics.

Latinas co -founder for Trump, for example, Senator Florida Ilean Garcia, wrote on X that “this is not what we voted for.”

“I understand the importance of deportation of criminal foreigners, but what we see is arbitrary landing measures who perform their immigration hearings – in many cases, with a reliable fear of persecution, everything moving a miller similar to the purpose of deportation on his own,” she added.

Federal authorities conducted more frequent immigration raids in the US, in states that are leaning against the Democrats and the Republicans. Some states controlled by Republicans, as Tennessee, helped the federal authorities.

“California was ready to confront,” said John Acewow, an associate professor at the Emory Law School, who studies free speech and protest in the United States.

Images of violence and resistance on the streets of Los -Angeles gave Trump a catalyst for deployment of the National Guard.

“It does quite a bit for its base. It shows that it is serious and allows them to show that it will use all the funds required to comply with its (immigration) rules,” said Prof.

The participants of the rally in Los -Angeles – who calls itself the city of the shrine, that is, it restricts cooperation with federal immigration – did not like the role they believed that the administration chose for their city.

“This is my people, you know, I’m fighting for us,” said Maria Gutieres, Mexican-American, who protested in Paramount for two days, the city in La County, who saw the protests after residents noticed ice agents in the area.

The interested there were robberies and at least burning the car. Authorities used rubber bullets and tears.

She said that Los -Angeles has some protests, including in the neighboring city of Compton, sharing the belief that they defend the city from immigration execution and saw the threat of Trump administration as problems.

Ms. Guterres believed that the undocumented immigrants committing violent crimes should be directed, but not those who, in her opinion, work hard and strive for a better life.

“This is our city. We are evil, we know how to protect ourselves, and it doesn’t scare us,” she said.

But the community is not united in support of the protests that attracted the national attention.

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

“The glaciers’ agent is a job like you and me,” said Juan, who asked the BBC to abandon his last name, given federal operations in the area.

He said he had worked for a day for years, but he acquired citizenship and had four children who graduated from college.

“Hard,” he said. “I have a family that also do not have papers.

“But you really can’t fight it when you’re here and you don’t have to be.”

“The crime is a crime,” he said.