On Friday and Saturday, Federal officers descended in the streets and workplaces throughout Los Angeles province to arrest and deport immigrants. There was a big raid in Ambiance Apparel, in the fashion area, and a thick confrontation with tear gas and flash bombs, between demonstrators and customs agents and US border protection in Paramount, in southeast Los Angeles, some immigrants who appeared on checkpoints at the Federal Court at Little Tocyo were transferred to Basement, then removed By Van, to an unknown location. Internal Security recently confirmed that a nine -year -old primary school student in Torrance, who was arrested after a hearing in late May and was transferred to prison in rural areas in Texas, will be deported now. These were not the first enforcement procedures taken by President Trump, who struggled to fulfill his promise in his campaign to conduct the “largest deportation in our country’s history.” But these tactics were, as Oscar, Zarat, from the Alliance for Human Rights, “not subject to law, and not normal.” Lawyers were deprived of access to detainees; He said that the workers were captured on the basis of their racist appearance. “There are rules in the engagement that is not followed. It is incredibly dangerous, not only for immigrants but for citizens.”
Los Angeles, of course, a migratory city. A third of the province’s population was born outside the United States, and more than half speak a language other than English at home. Los Angeles is the city of Malaz in the state of Malaz: Local authorities are not allowed to cooperate with the perpetrators of federal immigration. Thus, as a word of recent arrests-which I described by migrant defenders as “kidnappings”, “kidnappings” or “disappearance”-spread through text messages and social media, and thousands of people appeared to counter a flow of federal law enforcement employees of various activities. The demonstrators walked, chanted, put their bodies on the road of cars, and arrested the officers; Some of the lit garbage on the fire, threw rocks, and workshops on the walls (“ice curse”; “I can’t stop Da Rida!”) The officers responded with drones, batons, tear gas and rubber bullets. At Ambiance Apparel, they arrested David Heareta, head of the California Branch of the International Service Employees. They also prevented a delegation of elected officials and immigration advocates from seeing the detainees in the court, a former routine form of supervision.
Federal agents acquired about two hundred immigrants in two days, according to the Alliance for Humanitarian Rights, which helps to manage the hotline network and legal services. The Ministry of Internal Security confirmed the arrest of one hundred and eighteen people. However, it seems that Trump cannot afford – or may have seen an opportunity – friction caused by society’s efforts to intervene. Late Saturday night, press secretary, Caroline Levitte, announced that he would publish two thousand members of the National Guard in California to calm what Stephen Miller, the White House Deputy Chief of Staff, would be called a “violent rebellion”. The governor of Javin Newose and the mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, objected to the matter; They said they could deal with the situation alone. However, there were three hundred members of the National Guard in place early Sunday, when a number of marches and gatherings were held in different parts of the province.
About twenty members of the National Guard – in the camouflage, the armed, the helmet, and the mop – alongside the detention center of the capital in the center of Los Angeles on Sunday afternoon. Behind them were half a scale of tactical vehicles. The scene did more to provoke more than calm. Hundreds of activists filled the streets and sidewalks, demanding the end of raids and deportation. The crowd did not collect on the instructions of any specific group. They were wearing the pride of rainbows, cakes, and the Mexican and Salvadian signs. (Miller wrote on X: “Foreign flags that fly in the American cities to defend the invasion.”) Prisoners participated in prison who are rising above us from behind their small windows by shaking and stopping the lights.
A woman who asked to be called Xiomara, because she was afraid of revenge if she used her real name and partner, both social workers and the original Angelos from the families of migrants, signed signs, saying, “What if your family? Xiomara told me that she was close to many people who voted for Trump and are now sorry for this decision. She explained: “The administration originally said that the deportations were to remove persons with violent criminal history.” “This is not what we see. We have seen them targeting children and people in manual work functions. We tear families.” (Internal Security claimed that at least some of the arrest are “gang members” and “killers” – “The worst worst”.
Despite the war position of the National Guard, it was the Los Angeles Police Department that did all the work. There seem to be more than a hundred LAPD officers, all equipped with black riot equipment. For hours, they put themselves as human roads, fired tear gas, and gave confusing instructions to the demonstrators. “Move south!” “Leave the area!” “You can’t go there!” “You can’t leave!” A husband of the officers pushed me again and again and pushed me forward on the sidewalk with their heroes. (When I knew that it was a press, one of them said: “I don’t care.” There were LAPD cars and four -wheel drive vehicles (including those that were seriously accelerated through the crowd), trucks, motorcycles and horses later.
Early evening, the confrontation rose. An introverted message from a helicopter, threatening the crowd with arrest and a “serious physical injury” unless the area is cleared within one minute. (Nothing happened after a minute). The demonstrators threw stones and plastic water bottles at the police streams and on the 101st highway, which temporarily stopped traffic, and the crowd members became several drivers without a driver on fire, resulting in a path of black smoke. The officers began shooting at rubber bullets and took the demonstrators near the city hall. She said that Xiomara witnessed officers on horseback “people trample people.” Amy Zapala, who is twenty -nine, who left the area at this time, believes that the police response was not entered. She told me: “People will be enthusiastic, but I haven’t seen any demonstrators with any weapons. I haven’t seen anyone causing physical harm.” Throughout one of the sidewalk, I saw a medical volunteer running gauze and aspirin for three young men with bloody wounds. LAPD arrested ten demonstrators, raising the weekend to thirty -nine, and X used to announce the city center “illegal group.”
Not all weekend demonstrations correspond to a specific raid or deportation. Some were more racist: expressions of anger in the informal and amazing cruelty of the administration. A few days after Trump’s inauguration, Christie Nom, Minister of Internal Security, participated in a series of video immigration raids in New York City, which is also a protected specialty. Now the role of Los Angeles, and it was as if immigrant workers, children and families were filmed in a movie for Fox News. Local officials were not completely blamed; Los Angeles police chief Jim MacDonil, during the weekend, stated technically, “do not participate in the enforcement of civil immigration.” Sherif La County, Robert Luna, said the same thing. “But there is a loophole,” Anthony Praison, an active in the Socal UPRISING group. “If they help in traffic, this is not the enforcement of immigration.” The police were present in raids and protests. They supported their federal peers. “The police there were inciting, creating military borders,” Praison went. “The belief that Los Angeles is the city of Malaz is a legend.” ♦
