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Fox News
15 hours ago
- Politics
- Fox News
Sen. Chris Murphy warns Trump expanding ICE with 'unsavory' people, allowing them to wear masks
Sen. Chris Murphy warned that President Trump rapidly expanding ICE and allowing them to wear masks as they conduct raids will lead to a wave of "depravity that none of us should accept."
Yahoo
20 hours ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
Latino neighborhoods overwhelmingly targeted in immigration raids, rights group says
The neighborhoods targeted by federal agents for immigration raids were overwhelmingly Latino, according to data from a prominent immigrant rights group. A heat map produced by the the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights documents 471 immigration enforcement actions reported to its Los Angeles Rapid Response Network between June 6 and July 20 in L.A. County. "That's only those reports we were able to verify through our responders," said Jorge-Mario Cabrera, CHIRLA's director of communications. "It doesn't mean those are the only number of incidents in that area." Cabrera suspects CHIRLA caught one-third of the enforcement activity that took place across the county. During the same period of time, CHIRLA claims to have received 1,677 calls of enforcement activities across the region that it could not confirm, with 1,500 of these reports mentioning armed agents being present, and 389 reports mentioning witnessing random arrests of community members. Here are the areas with the highest number of enforcement actions reported to CHIRLA: San Fernando Valley (Panorama City): 22 actions Pico Rivera: 18 actions Silver Lake-Echo Park: 15 actions Bell Gardens: 14 actions Hollywood: 9 actions Vernon-South Los Angeles: 8 actions Pico-Union-Downtown Los Angeles: 8 actions Little Tokyo-Downtown Los Angeles: 7 actions Glassell Park: 7 actions South Gate: 7 actions Of the five zip codes with the highest immigration enforcement numbers, a combined 76% of the population was Latino, CHIRLA's analysis shows. Twenty-two enforcement actions were reported from Panorama City, the highest of every zip code analyzed. Its population is 42% Latino, and 38.2% immigrants. "The blatant racial profiling by the Trump Administration is clearly visible in this map," said Angelica Salas, executive director for CHIRLA, in a press release. "Areas where People of Color live and work, which also include major Latino hubs, were racially profiled and targeted. This military federal immigration enforcement operation was a surgical attack meant to provoke panic and confusion, and unleash terror in our neighborhoods." ICE and the Department of Homeland Security did not respond to requests for comment from The Times. The agency has pushed back against racial profiling claims in the past. DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin wrote in a statement that any such allegations are "disgusting and categorically FALSE." She also said, "These type of smears are designed to demonize and villainize our brave ICE law enforcement." The CHIRLA analysis is not a full accounting of the raids conducted in Los Angeles. DHS has not released the number of enforcement actions or the locations. It has reported that from the time the operations began in June to early July, ICE and Border Patrol arrested 2,792 illegal aliens in the L.A. area. "The map shows they didn't go to wealthy, white neighborhoods," said Cabrera. "They went where they could randomly pick up people of color." This report comes during widespread concern about racial profiling by the Trump administration in its immigration policies. Reporting from The Times shows L.A. residents, especially darker-skinned Latinos, have expressed fear about being targets for ICE agents, and even American citizens have been swept up in raids. CHIRLA was one of the groups who sued DHS on July 2, claiming its arrests and detentions in L.A. and the surrounding counties were unlawful and racially targeted. "The preponderance of individuals stopped and arrested in the raids have not been targeted in any meaningful sense of the word at all, except on the basis of their skin color and occupation," wrote the plaintiffs in their lawsuit. U.S District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong ruled in their favor, writing that DHS and ICE may not use apparent race or ethnicity, speaking Spanish or a person's occupation to justify an arrest or detention. The Trump administration is attempting to have these restrictions lifted. Sign up for Essential California for news, features and recommendations from the L.A. Times and beyond in your inbox six days a week. This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Yahoo
Arrests as immigration raids target workers
More than 20 people have been arrested after immigration raids across the West Midlands. Delivery drivers suspected of working illegally were targeted by officers in Birmingham, Coventry and Hereford, the Home Office said. Images showed enforcement agents apprehending two men at New Street railway station on Wednesday, as people were stopped for allegedly using modified e-bikes. It comes amid a crackdown on undocumented workers operating in the so-called gig economy, as well as places like car washes, construction sites and nail bars. The two-day operation saw 21 foreign nationals taken into custody for a range of immigration offences, the government added. They included people from Eritrea, Guinea, Italy, India, Pakistan, Vietnam and Bangladesh. All of them now face being deported from the UK. Matthew Foster, who leads on immigration in the West Midlands, said illegal working was undercutting legitimate businesses and allowing vulnerable people to be exploited. "Those who choose to break the law by working illegally or employing illegal workers should expect to be caught and face the consequences," he said. The enforcement activity comes after ministers promised to get tough on illegal migration to "protect UK borders". Plans have included a focus on food delivery companies such as Deliveroo, Uber Eats and Just Eat to prevent illegal working. In June, the companies agreed to strengthen security checks following reports some asylum seekers were working illegally as couriers. Follow BBC Birmingham on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X and Instagram. More on this story Food delivery apps to tighten checks to stop illegal workers Illegal worker arrests in Midlands up by third Arrests during factory immigration raids Related internet links Home Office
Asharq Al-Awsat
5 days ago
- Politics
- Asharq Al-Awsat
Türkiye Says Arrests 153 Suspected ISIS Members, Associates
Türkiye has arrested 153 presumed members of ISIS in nationwide raids, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said on Friday. The arrests took place from Izmir and Mugla in the west and southwest, to Hatay and Mardin in the southeast and Samsun on the northern Black Sea coast. "In the course of operations in 28 provinces over the past two weeks, our military police have detained 153 presumed members of the terrorist organization" ISIS, Yerlikaya said on X. The suspects "have provided funds to affiliated groups" and are accused of "propaganda that benefits a terrorist organization," he said, according to AFP. Yerlikaya said the police had acted on information from Turkish intelligence services and cooperation from authorities abroad. Türkiye shares an 800-kilometer (500-mile) border with Syria, where ISIS claimed responsibility in late May for an attack on the new government forces in the south of the country.
BBC News
6 days ago
- Politics
- BBC News
Relentless immigration raids are changing California's way of life
When immigration agents came to the farm where he worked, Jaime Alanis tried to to the roof of a greenhouse, while agents rounded up and arrested dozens of his coworkers below, Mr Alanis hoped to stay out of he neck was broken and skull fractured. He died later in hospital. Meanwhile, immigration agents fired teargas at a crowd of some 500 protestors, who had gathered to stop the raids outside two legal cannabis farms. Some threw rocks, and the FBI says one fired a gun at federal agents. Mr Alanis's death, and the violent clashes that ensued at those cannabis farms, are the latest examples of the kind of chaos that has swept across Southern California since the beginning of June, when immigration raids began to intensify in the region. Those crackdowns sparked protests, which led to US President Donald Trump deploying the National Guard and US Marines, to protect federal officers from the demonstrators and to ensure that his mass deportations, which he had long promised, were carried out. While many Americans support President Trump's tough immigration policies, the relentlessness of the raids in the region has also triggered a fierce backlash from neighbours and activists. Southern California is home to an estimated 1.4 million undocumented immigrants, many of whom have been forced into hiding - too afraid to go to work, school or even the grocery store. In so doing, the raids have altered the landscape of one of the country's most populous regions. Businesses are shuttered, cities have cancelled community events - including Fourth of July fireworks celebrations."Everyone's looking over their shoulders," says a "raspado" vendor in Los Angeles on a recent Sunday, where normally crowded soccer fields and picnic tables were mostly deserted. As she prepared the shaved ice with sweet strawberry syrup, she seemed wary of questions but grateful for a customer."It's never like this," she said. The raids at the two cannabis farms are now being touted as the largest immigration operation since President Trump took office. Of the 361 migrants detained during those raids, four had "extensive" criminal records, including rape, kidnapping, and attempted child molestation, media reported. Immigration officers also found 14 migrant children, who the administration claims have been "rescued from potential exploitation, forced labor, and human trafficking".While the administration frequently highlights the convicted rapists, murderers and drug dealers they have arrested in operations, scores of immigrants - many with no criminal convictions who have spent decades building businesses, families and homes - have been caught in the crosshairs."They just kidnap you," says Carlos, who didn't want his full last name used out of fear that he could be deported to his native Guatemala. He has been too afraid to go to work since his sister, Emma, was detained while selling tacos outside a Home Depot last month. "If I'm brown, if I'm Hispanic, they just come and catch you and take you."The Trump administration says claims that people are being targeted because of their skin colour are "disgusting" and false. Carlos says he feels a bit safer since a federal judge in California ordered the Trump administration to stop "indiscriminately" detaining people with "roving patrols" of federal agents. But he doesn't trust that they will stop, and he needs to go back to work."How am I going to pay my rent," he says. "I'm stuck inside." Churches and immigrant rights groups have been organising food delivery for people in hiding. They have also been training people to protect immigrants out on the streets using apps, text chains and social media to alert people when federal agents are dozens of armed agents in camouflage descended on MacArthur Park on horseback and in armoured vehicles earlier this month, few were surprised. Word had spread quickly of the operation – and rumours had swirled that "la migra" was coming hours before the troops arrived. Dozens of protesters swarmed in to greet the troops – including LA Mayor Karen Bass, who demanded they leave the say no arrests were made and no one was seen running to escape. By the time troops arrived – with professional looking camera crews recording the overt show of force – the only people in the park were protesters, some kids at a summer camp, and some homeless people asleep in the grass."It's been gut wrenching," says Betsy Bolte, who lives near the park and had showed up to protest and yell obscenities at the agents."It's war against the people – the heart and soul of the economy. And it's all intentional. It's part of the plan," she said, crying while showing reporters her footage. Activists accuse the government of terrorising its own people."This is part of a programme of terror. From Los Angeles to the Central Coast, the Trump administration is weaponising the federal government and military against Californians," says the advocacy group not all Californians agree. President Trump won 38% of the ballots in November. Recently, the BBC featured the story of one woman who is still devoted to the president and his mass deportation plans, even while she's locked up as an illegal immigrant. And a lone Trump supporter showed up at the protest at the cannabis farm last week, only to be beaten and jeered at and spit on by ironically, the architect of many of President Trump's deportation policies, is an Angeleno himself. Senior White House aide Stephen Miller was raised in liberal Santa Monica where even as a teenager he was known on conservative radio for condemning the use of Spanish in his told Fox News this week that California's "violent" Democratic politicians who show up to protest were inciting violence against federal immigration agents."No city can aid and abet an invasion of this country over the will of the American people and the law enforcement officers empowered to enact the American people's wills," he Trump's "border czar" Tom Homan says Los Angeles has itself to blame because LA's sanctuary laws prevent local law enforcement from cooperating with immigration agents inside jails, where they could detain immigrant offenders outside of the public eye."We're going to double down, triple down on sanctuary cities," Mr Homan told reporters, adding that they do not have such overt public raids in Florida because all the sheriffs there let immigration agents into the jails to detain immigrants."If they don't let us arrest the bad guy in the county jail, they're going to arrest them in the community. We're going to arrest them at a work site." In Los Angeles, the impact of the month of raids is noticeable. In parks and neighbourhoods once bustling with shoppers, foot traffic, music and street vendors, the absence of familiar sounds is are 88 cities in LA County and many of them have cancelled public summer events due to the ongoing immigration enforcement activity."Many residents have expressed fear and uncertainty, leading them to remain indoors, refrain from work, and withdraw from daily public life," the city of Huntington Park said in a statement about cancelled events. "Our priority is and will continue to be the safety and peace of mind of our some immigrants are afraid to turn up for their scheduled hearings, because they are being detained outside Ara Torosian of Cornerstone Church in West LA said the bulk of his Persian language congregants were asylum seekers. One couple with a three-year-old daughter were detained outside court when they showed up for what they thought was a "routine" hearing. Now they are in Texas at a family detention members of his congregation were detained in June – two of them on the street as Pastor Torosian filmed and begged the agents to stop."The are not criminals," he said. "They were obeying everything, not hiding anything."
