JUAN IBARRA stands outside his fruit and vegetables in the vast fresh products market in Los Angeles, the place in the city center where restaurant owners buy out of Spanish origin, street operators, and Taco supply truck operators every day.
On June 16, the loud market was usually largely empty. Since immigration and customs officials began to conduct immigration raids more than a week ago, including at a textile factory, two buildings, Mr. Ibara said that the works have almost dried up.
Street sellers at home are hiding, while restaurant workers are afraid to travel to the market to pick up supplies. Most of the 300 -year -old workers illegally stopped in the United States.
Mr. IBARRA, which pays 8,500 dollars per month in rent for his pod, which sells grapes, pineapple, watermelon, peaches, tomatoes and corn, is usually about $ 2000 on a normal day. Now $ 300, if he is lucky. Shortly before speaking to Reuters, it was forced, for the first time since the ice raids began, to get rid of the spoiled fruit. He must pay a garbage company $ 70 to the Play to do so.
“It is a large ghost city,” said Mr. Ebara. “It is almost like Kofid. People are afraid. We can only last long like this-perhaps a few months.”
Mr. Ebara, who was born in the United States for Mexican Fathers and is an American citizen, is not the only one in seeing President Donald Trump’s campaign against immigrants in the country illegally destroying his small actions.
It occurs throughout Los Angeles and California, as business owners and other experts say, and threatens to harm greatly to the local economy.
A third of California workers are immigrants and 40 % of entrepreneurs born abroad, according to the American Immigration Council.
The Trump administration, which is concerned about the economic effects of the collective deportation policy, has turned its focus in recent days, and has asked for ice to stop raids on farms, restaurants and hotels.
Ice raids sparked protests in Los Angeles. These Mr. Trump pushed the National Guard and the US Marine Corps to the city, against the desires of the democratic ruler in California, Gavin New Roosom.
White House spokeswoman Abigel Jackson said that violent demonstrators in Los Angeles had invented an inappropriate environment for local companies. “It is democratic riots – not the implementation of the Federal Immigration Law – that hurts small companies,” Ms. Jackson told Reuters.
Restaurant recession
The last shift in focusing by Mr. Trump and ICE was not a help to Pedro Jiminies, who was running and owning a mechanized restaurant in a largely working neighborhood, of Spanish origin in Los Angeles for 24 years.
Many in his community are very afraid of the ice residing at home and stopped repeating his restaurant. Mr. Jiminiz, who illegally crossed the United States, said he obtained citizenship in 1987 after former Republican President Ronald Reagan signed legislation that gives many immigrants without legal status, he took $ 7,000 per week than it was two weeks ago.
On June 13 and 14, he was closed at 5 pm, instead of 9 pm, because his restaurant was empty.
“This really hurts everyone’s actions,” he said. “It is terrible. It’s worse than Covid.”
Andrew Ciley, head of the Institute of Non -Parties Immigration Policy, said that the Trump administration started the immigration campaign by focusing on people with criminal convictions. But this has turned into raids in the workplace in the past two weeks.
“They are targeting the migrants who work hard, they are the most integrated in American society,” said Mr. Sili.
“The more indiscriminate and broad, not the target, the more the American economy disrupts in very real ways.”
Throughout Los Angeles, the contestant immigrants described, some of whom go beyond work, to avoid the application of immigration.
Lewis, the Guatemalan Hot Dogi seller who only asked to get to know him with his first name for fear of targeting by ICE, said that he appeared at the end of this week in the Santa Fe Springs – happened in the market of used commodities and music. Others told him that ice officers were just there.
He said that he and other sellers were without a legal immigration, they quickly left.
“All of this was psychologically exhausted,” he said. “I have to work alive, but the rest of the time stay inside.”
This story was reported by Reuters.
