Donald Trump intends to convert Chicago, with governor and mayor Democrats, at the spearhead of his promise to massively deport migrants without papers. The operation, initiated this Sunday, will be expected to be expected these days, with the presence on the field of several responsible for the Republican Administration to guarantee the results. His attempt, however, runs into the rejection of local managers, who refuse to collaborate. And with the Cerval fear of the residents of the immigrant majority neighborhoods, such as Brighton Park, where to ask for a direction from the window of an unknown vehicle makes the passage to the few passersby who run through somewhatly illuminated streets.
Although theoretically, the objective of this first phase of the republican president’s plan is foreigners without papers with a criminal record and pending expulsion orders, any foreigner in Brighton Park, and other neighborhoods of the Chicago periphery, is given by afraid. “Many children have stopped going to class. The first day of Trump’s mandate stayed at home 400 students from the Secondary Institute, then the ratio From absenteeism it has remained at 30 or 40 per day, ”explains a worker, who asks not to be identified, of the Brighton Park neighborhood, a neighborhood“ with 95% of Hispanics and 5% of Asians and Poles ” Airport, and where the few businesses – it is not a buoyant area – exhibit without exception claims in Spanish.
Brighton Park’s neighborhood council is one of the organizations that sued ICE (acronym in English of immigration and customs control service), which directs ongoing registration and identification operations throughout the country. The groups of activists consider that raids are a retaliation against the city for their character as a refuge city, open to foreigners.
In fact, the role of the Chicago authorities, one of the big cities under Democratic Government to which the Governor of Texas, the Republican Greg Abbott, began sending buses full of migrants in the spring of 2022 to press the White House by Joe Biden, it can be crucial in the course of the operation. Like the state governor, also the Democrat JB Pritzker, the mayor, Brandon Johnson, has declared that the city police do not participate in the macrooperation, despite the threat of reprisals against local and state officials who do not collaborate in the Razziasand urged all residents to “know their constitutional rights”, an nothing veiled way of expressing their resistance to persecution. Johnson’s position is in the antipodes of his New York counterpart, also Democrat Eric Adams, even opened to modify the regulations that have made the city a safe place for migrants.
The support of the Mayor’s Office does not relieve migrant frightenings, such as the elusive figures that shunned the visitor in Brighton Park at nightfall. Or the residents of Cuban Yorani, who arrived in the US with a temporary protection statute, in the Archer Heights neighborhood. “They are very restless, those of my plant do not dare to look at the break days ago, they don’t even go to buy food. Nor do children, because schools are no longer a safe place, ”he explains, in reference to the elimination of protection guarantees by the new administration in places so far inviolablesuch as educational centers, hospitals and churches. Yorani eludes qualify Trump’s operation, “I don’t get into politics, you know? Although the truth, it harms me, because the family reunification plans with my son, which is in Cuba, have been suspended at the moment. ”
Brighton Beach’s neighborhood council has intensified its defense work of foreigners “in community schools [públicas]with face -to -face, and also virtual workshops, to explain to minors, and by extension to their parents, what their rights are and how to act, who to call, in case they are arrested ”by ICE agents, explains Gonzalez. But even residents with papers are restless, he adds, “because if not them, it is more than likely that a family member can end up in the spotlight.”
Faced with the resistance of the municipal and state authorities, the so -called Tsar of the Frontera appointed by Trump, Tom Homan, personally supervises from Chicago the operation of expulsion of irregular launched this Sunday on a large scale in the US, and that on its first day It has resulted in a thousand arrests and interpellations. Of these people, 554 have been arrested, as confirmed in their X ICE account. This Monday there have been generalized records in points of New York and New Jersey.
After sporadic operations last week, such as a record in a Newark business (New Jersey) with three detainees, in addition to the first deportation flights, such as those that returned to Guatemala to about 170 irregular, ICE reported this Sunday in The incorporation of officials of the Department of Justice – which theoretically does not correspond to the application of immigration laws – to partly alleviate the shortage of migratory police personnel. In addition to the “reinforced selective operations” – the euphemism of the Republican Administration to refer to the migrant hunting – from ICE in Chicago, records have also been reported in Atlanta, Puerto Rico, Colorado, Los Angeles and Austin (Texas). In New Mexico and Arizona, indigenous leaders have given the alarm for the arrest of a fortnight of their communities.
The participation of several federal agencies, between the department of the National Security Department, such as ICE, and those of Justice, corroborates the dimension of the operation, repeatedly promised by Trump during the campaign and consecrated last Monday in the first executive orders that He signed after assuming power. The officials of the different justice agencies have been granted additional powers to be able to make records and eventually arrest, for the situation of “threats to public security and national security” that it raises, according to those responsible for the ICE, the presence in the streets of undocumented with a history.
It is estimated that eleven million foreigners live in an irregular situation, “and we will deport all of us who can. If you are in the country illegally, you will have problems, ”the Tsar of the Border threatened Sunday. A key issue will be to know how the Republican Administration will manage the vital presence of thousands of undocumented people who work in agriculture, and on which the functionality of the sector depends.
Homan avoided as much as possible to talk about migrants to refer instead of criminals who are a threat to the US security for the border tsar, there are no ongo in statements to the CNN. The attorney attorney general, Emil Bove, Secund in Chicago.
Each of the ICE police stations in the US – there are 25 distributed throughout the country – must practice a minimum of 75 daily arrests under the new established fees, which would allow to exceed last year’s volume. In the last fiscal year – termina in September – the ICE expulsion department made 113,431 administrative arrests, which is equivalent to about 310 daily arrests in total.
