Immigrants in Southern California go on high alert after Supreme Court ruling

LOS Angeles – Anger and frustration struck on Monday in the Southern California immigrant rights community after the United States Supreme Court has lifted restrictions on itinerant patrols and racial profiling during immigration stops.

Outside a home depot near MacArthur park, the site of several raids by federal agents in recent months, organizers, lawyers and local legislators have said that Los Angeles residents would not be intimidated.

“Whatever the decision today, we will continue to remain solid,” said Flore Melendez, executive director of Clean Car Wash Worker Center, a non -profit organization of plea. “This decision does not reject us. It advances our community, and we have to see this.”

Eighty-one car washing were targeted by federal agents, several more than three times each, and 250 car washer employees have been held since the immigration application began in June, said Melendez. The previous people included a work organizer who was arrested during his quarter work during a car washing last week, she said.

“These are workers like him who improve our community, who improve the industries of other workers, who defend these injustices and improve it,” she said. “It’s unacceptable.”

The High Court’s decision grants an emergency request from the Trump administration to block an order of July 11 by the judge of the American district court Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong which prohibits federal agents from preventing people based solely on their race, their ethnic origin or the language they speak.

The initial trial has been filed by ACLU and other civil rights defense groups in response to the aggressive actions of federal agents who carry out a mass expulsion program of President Donald Trump.

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“It is not a question of enforcing immigration laws-it is a question of targeting the Latinos and anyone who does not resemble or does not resemble the idea of ​​Stephen Miller of an American, including American citizens and children, to deliberately harm the families of California and to small businesses,” he added, referring to the chief of the white house for policies that were instrumental To shape Trump’s Trump’s immigration policies.

The arrests and detainees in southern California began in early June, sending shock waves in the region and triggering prosecution and demonstrations.

Trump responded by deploying 4,000 troops from the National Guard and 700 navies in Los Angeles, which a Federal California judge last week deemed a 19th century law prohibiting the use of soldiers for civil activities in law enforcement.

“Immigration agents now have the power of profile, to stop, to hold and to stop people because of the color of their skin, the language they speak or the work they do,” said Armando Gudino, member of the Los Angeles Worker Center network and an applicant in the federal case. “In doing so, they actually legalized racial profiling and by extension, racial discrimination.”

He continued: “We will not silence, and we will not stop fighting until the Constitution is preserved but restored for each worker, each immigrant and each family of this country.”

After the start of the repression, the defenders of immigrant rights moved quickly to create a coalition of dozens of groups of activists with hundreds of volunteers who were traveling in home deposits, car washes and other places that have become application targets.

Volunteers after arrests and prisoners on social networks warn workers when federal agents are nearby and organize “Know-Yes-Yes-Rights” workshops for undocumented citizens and residents.

After the decision on Monday, the organizers said they were determined to increase their number and double the efforts to protect members of the community.

Groups of activists have started to flood social media with publications urging people to stay on alert and join private groups on mobile applications that cannot be easily monitored or infiltrated.

In an article, Siempre Unidos la, warned the residents of seven counties to expect the coercive measures to intensify on Tuesday. In a different article, the West Los Angeles Rapid Response Network told subscribers to prepare to document interactions with federal agents, including those who have immigration and customs application.

“We can expect an ice activity across the city, in particular home deposits and other workers’ sites, such as car washing,” wrote the group. “The ice tactics that we have learned to recognize are what we can expect to see in number and frequency. Sometimes like this, it is absolutely necessary to remain courageous, organized and vigilant.”