Miami/The raids against migrants unleashed in recent days in Miami and its surrounding areas by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE) are causing panic and indignation in equal measure. A good example is the videos of complaints on social networks that have multiplied since operations beganlast Thursday, especially against gardening companies.
“Look at this, all because people want to go to work and earn money,” said a woman behind the camera while recording the arrest of a worker, a landscaping truck driver whose phone number belongs to the Palm Beach area, Florida. While she he scolded the agentsone of these excused himself with a shrug of his shoulders, as if in annoyance. “The man is working, earning a living for his family, why do they do that?” the woman continued, while a police officer put handcuffs on the employee.
Before, another woman tried to prevent the arrest by approaching the detained vehicle. An officer with a megaphone immediately warned him: “You have to stay 25 feet away.” [7,5 metros] “Sir, you should be ashamed of yourselves. “They are very hard-working people, they are not doing anything.”
“They are deporting good workers, what they are doing is an abuse, and if they continue like this, the Democrats are going to take over the entire state of Florida”
“At this rate, Miami is going to run out of outfielders,” he laments. 14ymedio Tony, a Cuban who has witnessed several arrests. “There are ICE operations everywhere here, both in Miami-Dade and Broward, for about four days,” he corroborates. A migrant with I-220A, Tony waited for Donald Trump’s presidency with the hope that he would regularize his compatriots in their situation of legal limbo, but, little by little, he has become disenchanted. “In his campaign he said that he was going to deport all illegal immigrants and criminals, he never said that due process would not be respected with those who have pending procedures, such as political asylum or status adjustments of any kind,” he laments. “I’ve never seen gardeners arrested!”
The disappointment with the president – who, according to a recent survey It is due more to economic reasons than to its immigration policies – it is notably increasing. This is evident in several of the videos released of this weekend’s operations. “I voted for Trump to deport criminals, not to deport workers,” shouted another man who recorded with his cell phone. another arrest.
“They are deporting good workers, what they are doing is an abuse, and if they continue like this, the Democrats are going to take over the entire state of Florida, unfortunately,” the man harangued, while showing the half dozen police cars involved in the operation. “This is a command to stop a person, look,” he exclaimed, “as if this were a murderer.” And he rebuked: “Abusers, that’s what they are, they should be sorry. This man surely doesn’t even record has, just because it has a penca in the back and the truck looks like landscaping”.
Just before, in Krome, the man recording said, they had detained three Guatemalans after stopping another truck. “Did they have record“?” he asked himself rhetorically, referring to a possible police file. “None! They were working. They were just going to cut the grass.” And he apostrophized the agents: “Who is going to cut the grass, who is going to plant the plants, the palms?”
Given this scenario, the owners of landscaping companies are choosing not to transfer their employees anymore in corporate vehicles. This is seen, at least, in other testimonies shared on social networks.
On the other hand, the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) denied this Sunday a news spread based on a report that appeared in Fox News and that had breathed respite into the migrant community. The American media claimed that the Border Patrol would stop carrying out “large-scale operations” and instead would detain immigrants who had only committed “serious crimes.”
“Again, this is not true,” he warned in X Tricia McLaughlinDHS Secretary of Public Affairs. Law enforcement, it continued, “continues to intensify its control efforts. If there were operational changes, they would know directly from the official source.”
