(Bloomberg) – Trump’s administration intensifies the effort to round migrants and uses increasingly aggressive tactics.
In Los Angeles scenes to Massachusetts, agents are equipped with bullets resistant vests and often depicting military rifles are displayed in social media videos and photographs are accompanied along the streets of towns with armored vehicles. The Rhode Iceland clip shows an agent standing in an open truck hatch and operates a rifle.
Teams of American agents for immigration and customs coercion deployed heavily armed and helmet officers to arrest La on Friday.
In the Fashion Fashion District center, according to the X -published video, agents are held by Riot Shields who moved around this area on an armored vehicle, while others fired several grenades with lightning when the protesters gathered along their way.
It is at least for the second time in the last week, when such tools have been deployed to distract the protesters.
Mayor La Karen Bass and other elected officials condemned raids and use of force. “These tactics sow terror in our communities disrupt the basic principles of security in our city,” said Bass, Democrat, in his statement.
The International Union of Service employees said its California President, David Huerta, was injured and arrested during one of the operations. The Union said Huerta was a US citizen.
ICE immediately did not respond to the request for comment.
At the national level, ice -conducted operations, often connected by other federal agents and local enforcement of law, coincided with the increase in the arrest of people for the operation of immigration laws.
ICE showed more than 1600 day concerns, an eclipse 2 200 a day in two days at the beginning of this week. This is more than twice the 630 average of the last weeks and about 450% increase compared to the typical number of former President Joe Biden in the office last year.
The latest figures are still not a lack of the goal of the administration, but the White House proceeds forward with the effort to eliminate legal obstacles deportations while increasing the ability of prison and coercive ability. Meanwhile, it deploys videos in social media with quick adjustments and pulsating techno beats, made moments for TV to attract attention.
“It’s not normal,” said David Shirk, professor of political science and American Mexican border problems at the University of San Diego. “It is a reaction to what was a long -term problem that is very exaggerated and aimed to convey a sense of shock and respect.”
Critics have long condemned the growing militarization of US police forces, which took off after the equipment used in the Iraqi War was handed over to state and local forces.
In the case of immigration raids ICE, Shirk and others, they say that tactics are not just over the top, risk that they will continue to light the already tense situations, which is more dangerous for goals, passers -by and agents themselves. It is said that raids are disproportionate threat and seem to be designed to maximize optics for US President Donald Trump and its supporters, while demonizing migrants who do not have a legal position but otherwise adhere to the law.
ICE officials are unlimited about the programs of strength and claim that agents must take maximum measures to protect themselves from dangerous gang members and other criminals. And if highly profile raids encourage other migrants without documentation to leave, the better. In posts on the social media, Ice routinely urges people to avoid arresting by their own reports.
In San Diego last week, an operation focused on workers in the popular Italian restaurant Buona Forchetta, including agents dressed in camouflage, Helmed and masked and some rifles. He attracted up to 250 spontaneous protesters who shouted at agents. Finally, the officials deployed the stunning of grenades to distract the crowd.
The agency refused to specify the exact number of arrests or details of any criminal records of those who have been admitted to custody.
“Officers took the appropriate steps and followed their training to take advantage of the minimum amount of power,” said TRICIA MCLAUGHLIN, spokesperson for the Ministry of Internal Security. “For the most part, because of such protests, our ICE officers face 413% increase in attacks in arrest.”
Operations across Massachusetts have resulted in an arrest of nearly 1,500 people in the last month for violating immigration, more than half of which the government said had criminal registers in the US or abroad. Many fears were involved strongly armed and masked officers. About 40 people were arrested and moved from the area on the Coast Guard patrol ship.
In February, agents used an armored vehicle in Phoenix equipped with a bass ram when they arrested a 61 -year -old man. At that time, the agency described arrests as part of a routine operation and said that the man was deported several times and had more criminal convicts.
“The more the police dress in military equipment and arm their military equipment, the more likely they see themselves in war with people, and that’s not what we want,” said Jenn peasant Borchetta, representative of the project manager for the Police Union in the US Civil Freedom Union. The extended show of the power of police agencies can “lead to unnecessary violence that leads to unnecessary damage,” she added.
Todd Lyons, the reigning ice head, advocated agents’ events, including wearing masks this week, and said it was for their protection because the public is growing more hostile to their work.
“I’m sorry if people are offended by masks, but I don’t let their officers and agents go there and put their lives on the line and lives of their family on the line because people don’t like what is immigration,” Lyons said during a press conference. He quoted incidents of people who identified agents and then annoyed them and their family members online, sometimes published children’s photos and other private information.
The agency has carried out tens of thousands of arrests and deported tens of thousands of foreigners since Trump joined office. But the Supreme Administration is not satisfied with the pace.
At a tense meeting last month with the dozens of the best ice officials Stephen Miller, the best assistant Trump and the architect of the Hard Policy of Administration, he said that the arrest would have an average of 3,000 a day. Many of these higher agents and officers left the meeting feared that they would lose their work if the quota was not met, according to a person who is familiar with a private discussion.
The growing frequencies of operations – and gearbox agents – may be worrying about community members who are not accustomed to such wide enforcement, according to Jerry Robinette, a former ICE agency, who led the San Antonio Agency’s Office until he left in 2012.
“They are in areas where people are accustomed to them and some people are amazed at what they see that they are overlooked by force,” Robinette said, adding that it was difficult to guess the second show in San Diego without further details. “Without knowing the basic crime they were worried about, it is really difficult to say that it was excessive.”
Robinette and others said that raids including heavily armed and helmets are not unheard of HSI operations. He said that a more robust presence is often used in cases of serious criminal organizations, including drug trafficking networks.
A heavily armed contingent of officers was deployed in Warwick on Rhode Island last month to arrest Guatemal man who avoided arrests during the April traffic stop. In this incident, according to the federal court records, the suspect turned and twisted from the arrest of the officers, leading to one to turn the ankle and eventually broke her leg.
The suspect was accused of attacking and resisting and defending the officer for enforcement after his arrest. It is held in federal custody, shows court records.
In San Diego it was not clear who he focused on the Ice air raid in the Italian restaurant. The tactics have triggered alarms from local officials.
“Militarized immigration raids in our neighborhoods erode confidence, destabilize families and undermine the constitutional right to a proper process,” said the regional head of Terra Lawson-Remer in a statement published by X.
The city councilor Sean Elo-Rivera published a photo of the ROOTE restaurant on Instagram and wrote the word “terrorists” over the picture. Others described ICE agents as “Gestapo”. Lyons said in an interview with Fox News that such descriptions of his officers were “simply disgusting”.
Elo-Rivera said he was standing according to his comments, describing the show as unnecessary and intended to instill fear.
“It would scare everyone who saw them,” Elo-Rivera said. “No one is safer as the Trump administration is trying to push through immigration laws.”
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