Ofensiva migratoria de Trump en Ciudades Gemelas convierte caos y tensión en la nueva normalidad – Chicago Tribune
By TIM SULLIVAN
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, USA. (AP) — Work begins for federal agents participating in the migration campaign in and around the town of Gemelas, with people with tactical teams protruding in the tropel of an anodino office building near the main airport.
Within minutes, start taking out trucks and minivans that form the featureless convoys that will quickly convert into a thematic and usual image on the streets of Minneapolis, St. Paul and their suburbs.
The manifestos were also temperate and defied the cold across the street from the cercado federal complex, which served as immigration court and government offices. “Váyanse a casa!” », he said as he brought the convoys into the pasar. “¡Fuera ICE!”, the English acronyms of the Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas.
The situation is even more important as night approaches, when the convoys return and the demonstrators repeatedly flee further, ransacking the valleys and, on some occasions, kidnapping passing vehicles. Ultimately, federal agents advance toward them and fire disparate tear gas and saturation grenades before achieving some detention.
“No nos vamos a ninguna parte!” declared one woman, a recent mother. “We quedaremos aquí hasta que se vayan”.
That’s the daily beat of Operation Metro Surge, the latest and largest campaign of President Donald Trump’s administration until the end, with more than 2,000 agents. The operator liaised with city and state federal officials, caused newspapers to be sent between activists and immigration officials in two deeply progressive cities, and co-opted the life of a mother of three.
The operation is noticeable in certain areas, particularly in the whiter and more adinerado neighborhoods and suburbs, where convoys and tear gas are infrequent. And also in neighborhoods where the presence of masked immigration agents is usual, they move with fantastic speed, carry out detentions and disappear before the protesters can assemble en masse.
Thus, the campaign is seen in many areas of the city of Gemelas, where more than three million people live.
“We don’t use the word ‘invasion’ in the smallest way,” Minneapolis Alcalde Democrat Jacob Frey told reporters this week, saying his police force had only 600 troops. “Lo que estamos viendo son miles —plural, miles— de agents Federales llegando a nuestra ciudad”.
These agents have a disproportionate presence in a small town.
Cruzar Los Angeles and Chicago, two previous targets of the Trump administration’s campaign, can arrive hours. In Minneapolis, it’s only 15 minutes.
As concern spreads to the region, children go to school or learn telematics, families avoid religious services and many business, especially among migrant residents, who have been temporarily arrested.
If Lake Street is known, an immigrant enclave for days where the lawyers received in Minneapolis come from Norway and Sweden, and the races have now been certified alone by the activists of the mountain guard, lists to sound their silbatos before the first signal of a convoy.
In La Michoacana Purepecha, where customers can buy milk, chocolate cube bananas and chicharrones, the door is closed and admits one person at a time. There is a notice in Taqueria Los Ocampo in English and Spanish that the restaurant is temporarily closed based on “current conditions.”
In a school four corners away, in the Karmel shopping center, where there is the city’s large Somali community experienced in everything – from food and coffee to the preparation of impuestos – the letters on the doors announced “ICE, no entre sin orden judicial”,
The shadow of George Floyd
It’s been a few years since George Floyd was murdered by a Minneapolis police officer, but women are open all the time.
Floyd fell outside the quarters of one of the dispersed ICE officials and joined Renee Good, a 37-year-old United Citizen, during an altercation on January 7, after she was killed helping neighbors over the course of a day. According to federal authorities, the officer disappeared in self-defense after Good used his vehicle “as a weapon.” Municipal and state authorities receive this explanation and recover from the multiple videos of the incident seized by the transeúntes.
For residents of the town of Gemelas, the repression can be brutal.
“Basta ya”, signaled Johan Baumeister, who went to the place where Good Poco was matured after the tiroteo to dejar flowers.
I’m saying we haven’t heard the violent protests that rampaged Minneapolis over Floyd’s death, causing damage worth millions of dollars. But the city has a great history of activism and protest, and it doesn’t have people with more of it.
“I think Minneapolis will see how to show you,” he added.
Tenia razón.
In the following days, representatives of activists and immigration officials will be recorded. The majority is heard with no more insults and burles, and the damage is limited to rotary windows, graffiti and some vandalized federal vehicles.
But now, violent shocks are taking place regularly in the cities of Gemelas. Some manifestos can clearly provoke federal agents by throwing bowls of snow or obscenid gritándoles with megaphones in a metro (pies) distance. The most frequent violence, without embargo, is the procedure of the agents who turned the doors of the cars, hit the demonstrators with a pepper spray and gave publicity to the observers who did not report them in the streets. Immigrants and citizens saw bags of vehicles, houses and detainees, several times during the day. And the majority of clashes end with tear gas.
Drivers in Minneapolis or St. Paul can now encounter intersections blocked by men in antibala chalecos and antigá masks, with helicopters echoing on their cables and in the air full of protesters’ silbats.
Quit the snow from the ice of your vecino
In a state that strengthens your citizenship, there is something very unique about protests in Minnesota.
Shortly after Good was shot, Gov. Tim Walz, the usual white Democrat and Trump commentator, repeatedly showed his love but also urged people to find ways to help their communities.
“Podría will quitando la nieve de la acera de tu vecino,” he said. “Podría significar estar en un banco de alimentos. Podría ser pararse a hablar con alguien con quien ne hablado antes”.
And other leaders ensured that the manifestos kept the calm and Casa Blanca used an opportunity to take more lasting action.
And when the protests turn into shocks, residents must leave their homes and refill the bottled water so that those affected can wash the tear gas out of their eyes.
Residents watch over schools to notify immigrant fathers if convoys seek to recognize their children. All quienes aid packages are provided for getting around the street and arranging transportation to work or the doctor.
On Thursday, at a Catholic church in St. Paul, the Open Market MN group prepared food packages for more than a 100-year-old family who did not sell from home. Colin Anderson, the colectivo’s communications manager, reported that the requests he had received had increased.
Sometimes people don’t want to know that they’ve succeeded.
Like Christian Molina, of suburban Coon Rapids, who recently worked with a Minneapolis neighborhood to find his mechanical vehicle as immigration agents began to do so. This is a Spanish-American issue.
Turn on the siren of your vehicle, but Molina does it while driving, without being sure if it was quiet.
In the final, the officials accelerated, Golpearon su parachoques trasero et ambos autos detuvieron. Dos personas bajaron del vehículo and the footer the documentation. Molina refused and said she hoped to join the police force. People came to the rally and soon came into contact with tear gas.
While the agents will be on the run.
Then you left a man angry and concerned that repentance had a sedan with the bodyguards destroyed.
Much after the officials felt that way, they had one last question.
“Who is going to pay for my car?” Molina said.
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Associated Press journalists Rebecca Santana and Giovanna Dell’Orto in Minneapolis and Hallie Golden in Seattle contributed to this despacho.
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This story was translated into English by an AP editor with the help of a generative artificial intelligence tool.
