The video shows the impact on Trump’s crimes in Washington

Residents in the Washington neighborhood with one of the largest Latin American populations say they saw a splash of immigration raids after Trump’s administration launched repression of crimes.

“People are scared,” said one resident who wanted to stay unknown. “I never saw the streets to be so empty.”

Videos posted in social media last week show arrests and raids – along with the protests of the locals – in the Colombian area of ​​Hates.

Since the White House, more than 1,000 arrests across the US capital have been made since the repression began on August 11, almost half of the suspects in illegal immigrants.

The BBC Verify considered more than a dozen videos made in Columbia Heights, and talked to the people who live there to evaluate the impact on the neighborhood.

One video of two men who confiscated law enforcement officers was Posted by Instagram Local journalists Thursday morning.

On the shots you can see the room on the distinctive building. We used this to secure the location to the road in the Colombian height – approximately two miles north of the White House – and headed there to find out more about what happened.

We met a woman who witnessed the incident. She said she didn’t know the two men, but showed us a few videos she shot, including one she hit Facebook at 07:39 that morning.

It shows two men in a red car surrounded by a group of nine officers – some of the “federal police officers” on the vests, some of the masks.

Then the officers defeated two windows of the car before pulling the men, forcing one of them on the ground and handcuffed.

Both men go to the unbroken car and expel, while a woman who shouts span: “They fight for their lives … They broke the windows, do not go out, do not go out.”

Several other visitors can be heard how “ice goes home” chant, another cry “you need so shame.” Someone calls one of the men as Eric Lopez.

When we arrived, we saw a car towed a man who gave us a number for who, he said, knew the arrested people.

We contacted the man, and he sent the message to say that the men were from Guatemala, the United States illegally, and one had a wife and son. He called them “good children” and claimed that they “had nothing bad.”

BBC Verify asked the Internal Security Department (DHS) in more detail.

A spokesman said the glaciers “arrested Erickson Sebastian Lopez-Castonon, an illegal alien who was in the car.”

They added: “The purpose of this operation was Darwin Araele Lopez-Castanon, a criminal illegal alien who was accused of a family crime. This criminal illegal alien from Guatemala was previously deported before he illegally entered the country for the third time.”

They said the officers used “minimal necessary force”.

The woman who filmed the video wanted to stay unknown, but invited us to her house nearby. She said her family came from Central America, but now they were legal US citizens.

Her daughter, who also wanted to stay unknown, said that most Latin American people in the area were undocumented and became more concerned over the past two weeks.

“I was born and grew up here in Washington,” she said. “My parents, fortunately, have documents … But I always think,” Where are they going to hit further? Will we, even if we have documents? “

“Even people with documents are hiding because they are afraid.”

Last week, she told us that the uncle’s house across the road was aimed at federal agents.

“I went out and saw a bunch of police officers near the house. They banged and asked my uncle to open the door, they didn’t say who they were looking for. They didn’t show any documentation.”

“We called my uncle,” she says, “I liked, don’t open the door … After perhaps 20, 30 minutes, they end up leaving. But they were so afraid. “

The uncle joined us and showed us his documentation, which, he said, waved to agents from his window to prove that he was legally in the US.

He said the federal authorities also patrol the local park where people play football.

According to him, the number of people who came to the game decreased from about 50 to 15, as many were undocumented and feared detention, he said.

He showed us a picture of a large group of agents collected near the park.

Several videos also show officers with FBI and Homeland Security officers, as well as local police surrounding another property on Sunday night.

The locals can hear the cry “Get out of our area”.

We posted the video outside in two quarters.

The photographer who sent us one of the videos said he asked the officers why they were there, and one told him it was due to the “operation”.

The FBI would not confirm this, but said the BBC to check: “In this place, on August 24, the FBI carried out authorized activities of law enforcement agencies in this place.”

In May, Senior Advisor Trump Stephen Miller said he had set a goal of “at least 3,000 arrests for ice every day,” when the administration tries to fulfill the president’s “large mass deportation” campaign.

“If you look at the type of people arrested (in Washington), they just try to fill their deportation quotas,” says Austin Rose, immigration lawyer.

He believes that many have tried to declare asylum in the US, so they will already be known to the authorities, which facilitates their tracking.

Overall, the BBC checks the 15 videos of incidents with the participation of federal officers in Colombia Hates.

As of August 26 this year in the local district we visited, 169 crimes were reported Metropolitan police DC Map of crimes.

Serious crimes were reported in the wide area of ​​Colombia Hates – including suspected firing earlier this year.

All the ten people we talked to the street said they felt safe before repression of crimes.

“I brought my mom here, and she looked like this place feel more like the neighborhood than where we lived … But since repression, she feels less than the neighborhood and more like a police state,” said Winnie Litchfield, who lives there for a year.

“I went out at 06:50 am to go to work and I saw two people arresting a man in the car. They surrounded him, putting him on it. I stopped and the guy looked at me and shook his head,” she said.

Alianan Huks, another resident who lived in the area for three years, said the streets have become much quieter in recent weeks.

“Usually on the sidewalk, when I leave the gym, usually a lot of Latin American sellers … But today I came home, and no one has laid out,” she told us.

We asked in DHS how many people were arrested at the Colombian height and would be aimed at the territory.

A spokeswoman said: “We will support the restoration of law and public safety so that the Americans can feel safe in the capital of our country.”