US is completely dependent on paperless employees

June 10, 2025

Shadow Community is a humanitarian and political disaster

Photo: Nora Savosnick

When the federal The migration authorities scored last Friday against a clothing giver in Los Angeles in Los Angeles, the agents in armored car and combat uniforms. The protests that outbreaks were spread with rubber balls, tear gas and distraction grenades. Nasty Donald Trump Since then, the army, against the will of the governor, has been an escalation of its authoritarian policy both legally and symbolically, but a militarized state power was already on the street.

It is also not only in Los Angeles that masked, heavily armed agents have been seen in recent months. “You will see many more strikes against workplaces than ever before in the history of our country,” said Tom HomanOne of those who plan the government’s removal policy. The goal is 3,000 arrests per day, which cannot be achieved without this kind of large -scale efforts.

Trump went toIn the choice to deport “criminal immigrants”, but in fact, migrants are under -represented in crime statistics. Many of those who are now arrested have done their best to follow the law.

The exceeding of the limit for the search for asylum or refugee status is protected under international law, but now agents of ICE, immigration and customs enforcement are also mentioned in the courts where they pick up people who have been called there as part of the residence permits application process. In other cases, just like the students who were trapped because of their criticism of the American financing of the genocide of Israel, or the Chilean tourist from a street in Manhattan, so that her twelve -year -old daughter was left alone in the middle of the city, the state had already approved their presence in the country.

Ice cream, that was founded Already in 2003, a strange position compared to other authorities. Some cities, such as Los Angeles, call themselves “shrines”, shrines and forbid local police, schools and hospitals to provide information to the migration authority. During the day Bides ICE was instructed not to make raids in “sensitive places” such as schools, hospitals and prayer homes.

Since the victory of Trump’s second elections Formal cooperation Admittedly, it has become increasingly common, especially in the Southeastern United States, despite warnings for lack of legal certainty, racial profiling and deteriorating relationships between the police and large parts of society. But Other local police officers have done the opposite And assumed that they do not announce anyone to deportation as long as serious crimes are not suspected.

It also noticed a lot of attention when the IRS agreed in April to share information to ICE, something that they previously avoided not to prevent migrants from paying taxes. In May, federal agents forced themselves in the congressman Jerry Nadlers Office looking for demonstrators of migration fees that could have hidden there and put handcuffs on one of his employees when she tried to block the door. In April were arrested A judge in Wisconsin, accused of smuggling an immigrant and his lawyer from his courtroom.

Important parts of American society is therefore to a certain extent in structural opposition against the migration authority. It is partly due to the US government structure, where states and the federal government do not always want the same – but the way in which local authorities point out the side of immigration on the side of immigration also points to a situation where the law and reality do not fit together.

Those who protest against Trump’s raids do this precisely because they understand that immigrants are an insoluble part of society, both culturally and economically. The fact that these standards are not converted into the law, so that millions of people live in a partially lawless shadow company is both a humanitarian and political disaster. Now Trump has given a pretext to escalate his fight against Democratic states, with the result of countless human tragedies.

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An estimated 4 percent of American labor has no residence permit. IN The construction sector It is expected that up to one fifth of the employees and in his The Agricultural Industry No less than 40 percent. Multiple studyR to show Those massive deportations would increase prices and harm GDP and, by extension, reduce the economy by a maximum of 6.8 percent, according to American Immigration Council.

But that is of course Not only in the economy like American migrants are deeply rooted. Many paperless people have lived in the country for a long time, sometimes almost since birth. They have their entire lives here, and when they disappear from the streets, it is noticeable. More recently, the press is full of stories about how communities are affected when their neighbors, schoolmates, friends and parents disappear. When three children and their mother were locked up by ice in the port of the Sackets, one small city In the state of New York, 1500 people traveled to Tom Homan’s house – who happens to be there. In Missouri, the many Trump voters from another town were shocked when one Popular waitress Suddenly not to work, a victim of the policy for which they voted, but did not think they would influence them personally.

In many cases the demonstrators succeed at least temporarily to press the federal agents back (and in both the port of Missouri and Sackets, the children, the mother and the waitress were temporarily released, but in California, Governor Gavin Newsom and Mayor Karen Bass are good enough to hold the situation well to be well -off to the own police officers. LAPD’s budget is larger than the Swedish army.

Although the protesters Responds to protecting the society they are used to – to protect their family members, friends and classmates against and disappear – in many cases the federal agents have the law on their side. It is just that it is a law that is practical and morally unacceptable.

In photos from Los Angeles, the Mexican flag flies against a background of black smoke. A man in a chef’s chef’s coat rags against an FBI agent who, just as he seems to be Latino: ‘I am sure your mother has swallowed, that’s why she came here (…) I see the shame in your face, Puto“When it comes to the promise of the sanctuary: it is a horse of LAPD that is being driven over a demonstrator on the ground, and it is a local police who shoot a rubber ball in the thigh on an Australian journalist.