Current17:27Trump’s threats deportation open old wounds in Mississippi
Bernarda Rodriguez remembers chaos when US immigration officials searched into a chicken factory in Mississippi, where she worked in 2019 while looking for unproven migrants.
“Everyone started running and screaming … They wanted to go out … but the door was closed,” said Rodriguez, who came to the United States illegally from Mexico in 2004, looking for a job.
“I was scared and I was trying to hide,” she told CBC Radio via a translator.
Rodriguez ran behind some boxes with other workers, but the officials noticed their hiding place.
“They told us to go out, that they would not hurt us, that they just wanted us to go out,” she recalled.
Rodriguez was one of 680 arrested workers According to US immigration and customs implementation (ICE) on August 7, 2019, when they executed executive sentence at the central Mississippi.
‘It’s like a disaster that hit’
Six years later, unfathomable migrants throughout the United States are organized for mass deportations that US President Donald Trump advocated in his re -election campaign.
In 2019, Rodriguez’s hands and feet were environment and her phone was taken away before being moved to an immigration detention in Louisiani. She was held for a month, and during that time she had a little contact with her children, who were with her father and scared when she would see her again. In the end, she was released, and officials decided not to deport her.
The Operation Leda in Mississippi remains one of the biggest raids in the workplace in the history of the United States left a lasting impact on communities in the southern state. Up to 400 people are estimated to be deported, while others are in the middle of a clogged immigration system in the middle of a clogged immigration system, waiting for their cases to be heard.
“Families [were] He was obviously separated, “said Michael Ann Oropez, the El PueBLo CEO, a non-profit organization who serves the immigrant community of Mississippi.
“There are people now that if you are talking about attacks, they will become emotional,” she said. “It’s like a disaster that hit.”
In his inaugural speech on January 20, Trump said that “we will start the process of returning millions and millions of criminal foreigners back to the places they came from.”
CBC Radio asked ICE for an interview, but no one was available, and the questions sent to the E -event were left unanswered. Reported by law enforcement agency 3,500 arrests Last week, in the first days of Trump’s second presidency.
US President Donald Trump quickly follows his promise to break the illegal immigration of raids and deportation. Trump is now advocating for a huge increase in consumption on the limit security and reform of immigration.
Trump calls “dangerous” migrants
The number of migrants passing to the US without approval is constantly increasing from the Pandemia Coid-19. US officials recorded 249,741 “Border Meetings” – or Migrants’ concerns – in December 2023, according to Data from the Pew Research Center.
While Joe Biden was initially a softer approach to immigration after he swore as president in 2021, he imposed himself Fresh limitations to suppress crossings last June. Together with increased implementation in Mexico, border meetings dropped 77 percent to 58,038 people in August.
In a Video posted online in February 2024Trump has characterized migrants as “dangerous illegal aliens” who come “to US communities to capture our people.”
Randy Rushing, a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives, said that he did not interfere with migrants who come to the US, but they must use legal routes for it.
“A country without borders is not a safe country,” Rushing, a Republican, said. “If we do not know who is here and what it intends, then … citizens who live here are not protected.”
Oropez, from El Puebla, said it was not so easy to move to the United States, where complex laws could change “like the embarrassment with the one who is in power.”
“If you are unskilled or … you don’t have family members here, you don’t have finance – it’s very hard to come here,” she said.
Most unfathomable migrants just want to secure their families, and immigration does not apply to “opening doors to criminals or crazy asylum,” she said.
Mike Lee is a SCOTT district sheriff, where many ice raids happened in 2019. Although he supports Trump’s plans for the Sad-Mexico border, he said that the president’s words about “dangerous illegal strangers” do not fit what he sees in Mississippi.
“We keep 100 people in the Scott district a day, and a very small part of them would be immigrants from other countries,” Lee said. “When they come here in Mississippi, you know, they are here to work.”
The kids were waiting for the school door
On the day of ice attacks in 2019, Yeison Burduo finished his first day of 5th grade and headed home with his two brothers – completely unaware that their mother, a single parent, had been arrested.
“My mom didn’t come home,” Yeison said, now 15. More and more concerned, until the time indicated it, until a phone call came to informed them that their mother was detained.
Civic rights lawyer Cliff Johnson said his phone had started to drive him a hook while news of the attacks was coming out.
“People didn’t know who to talk to, but they knew something really serious was happening and something bad,” said Johnson, director of Macarthur Justice Center at the University of Mississippi Law School.
The ice attacks coincided with the first school day, and Johnson said it became obvious that many children had stayed at the school door for parents who did not come. Because of this, the school staff tried to find out if the children were waiting for anyone to wait for them at home and try to make a care for those who were not.
“I remember very well feeling this urgency, first of all, trying to figure out what we do with these children,” Johnson said.
Yeison didn’t see his mother for six months. He and his brothers stayed with a family friend until he appeared in court, where he saw her around and wore a prison overalls. “I just started crying at that moment,” he said.
His mother was released shortly after. Yeison said she did not know the specifics of her current legal status, and his mother was not available for an interview.
Ice did not answer questions about how much people were deported as a result of raids, but Johnson estimates that between 300 and 400 people were removed from the USA within a few months.
He said that others were released with ankle bracelets to monitor their movements and wait for final decisions from the immigration system, which has a lag of three million cases.
The electricity talked to a young woman from Arizona, who came from Mexico with her family in the US when she was a baby. She only learned that she was an unfathomable migrant when she was 16. CBC does not appoint his family because of their fears they will be deported.
Growing up without a father
Conn Carroll, editor of the Washington Examiner comment, said Trump knows how important the immigration is his supporters, but some of the things he pledged should be taken with “grain of salt”.
“If you are one of those people who hope Trump will deport 12 to 20 million people … I think you will be disappointed,” said Carroll, a former communication director for Republican Senator.
“However, if you hope Trump will close the border and … start working with local jurisdictions to eliminate those aliens who have criminal beliefs … I think that’s what you see,” he said Current Last week.
Current24:18Migrants living in fear of Trump’s threat of mass deportation
Adalis Fontanez moved to Mississippi 15 years ago in search of better wages. She is a US citizen from Puerto Rico, but her husband – whom she met working in a chicken plant – an unfathomable migrant from Guatemala.
They got married in 2010 and have two daughters, but he was arrested in ice attacks in 2019 and deported in Guatemala.
They have not seen each other since. Their daughter of Aleid, 13, worries that he will never return.
“He calls us and says he just wants to be with his family, such things. He simply becomes sad and emotional that he is not with his family,” she said.
Carroll claimed that the laws of immigration must be enforced.
“Tough lines like this is difficult to implement, both politically and emotionally often. There are difficult cases, but difficult cases are not pronounced to make a bad law,” he said.
Oropez, from the non -profit El Pueblo, said she wanted the system to recognize humanity and contribution to unfathomrated migrants and help them get out of the shadow.
“There is a fear that you cannot describe or you really cannot be empathized if you do not know what is unfathomable – and to live that fear every day,” she said.
