“ICE has been ordered to round up nurses, home health aides, factory workers, teachers, students, and thousands of others who have been living and working here legally for years; who’ve done nothing wrong.”
New analysis and firsthand accounts reveal the toll of the crackdown on immigrant communities in L.A. County and beyond. Thousands of people detained during the height of the raids remain in immigration custody or have already been deported.
Daniel Costa, Ben Zipperer
Economic Policy Institute
Trump’s draconian immigration enforcement is harming all workers. The theory was simple: remove immigrant workers, and native-born U.S. citizens would fill those open positions. Well, the results are in, and the opposite is happening.
Like the slave owners, the MAGA movement and its allies are opposed only to those aspects of government that they can’t wield against their enemies. They will happily enlarge the scope of federal authority beyond the limits of our Constitution.
Christie Thompson and Anna Flagg
The Marshall Project
Many people with little or no criminal record have been swept into the administration’s immigration dragnet since January, an analysis of deportation data shows.
With Trump and Stephen Miller cheering on ICE’s terror tactics, Jaime Alanis Garcia’s fatal fall in the raid on Glass House Farms was the most recent example of a death foretold. Inspiring terror, as a tactic, is openly acknowledged.
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