The districts targeted by federal agents for immigration raids were massively Latinos, according to data from an eminent group of immigrant rights.
A heat cardboard Produced by the coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (Chirla) Documents 471 Immigration measures were reported to its Rapid response network (LARRN) between June 6 and July 20, in the county of.
“These are only the reports that we were able to verify through our stakeholders,” said Jorge-Mario Cabrera, director of communications at Chirla. “This does not mean that these are the only number of incidents in this area.”
Cabrera suspects that Chirla caught a third of the application activity that took place in the county.
During the same period, Chirla claims to have received 1,677 calls for law implementing the law throughout the region which it could not confirm, with 1,500 of these reports stating that armed agents were present, and 389 reports mentioning random arrests of community members.
Areas with the greatest number of application measures reported in 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 postal codes with the largest immigration application figures, 76% of the population was combined, according to Chirla’s analysis.
Twenty-two law enforcement actions were reported in Panorama City, the highest of each postal code analyzed. Their population is 42% of Latino and 38.2% of immigrants.
“The flagrant racial profiling of the Trump administration is clearly visible on this card,” said Angelica Salas, executive director of Chirla, in a press release. “The areas where people of color live and work, which also include the main Latin American hubs, have been profiled and targeted racially. This military operation of the application of federal immigration was a surgical attack intended to cause panic and confusion, and trigger terror in our neighborhoods. ”
Ice and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) did not respond to requests for comments from the time. The agency has rejected racial profiling claims in the past.
DHS spokesperson written in a declaration That such allegations are “disgusting and categorically false” and “these types of smear are designed to demonize and mean our brave applications of the Ice Act”.
The Chirla analysis is not a complete accounting of the raids carried out in Los Angeles. DHS has not published the number of application actions or locations. He reported that from the moment the operations began from June to early July, Ice and Border Patrol arrested 2,792 illegal foreigners in the Los Angeles region.
“The card shows that they did not go to rich and white districts,” said Cabrera. “They went where they could randomly pick up people of color.”
This report occurs during the general concern concerning racial profiling by the Trump administration in their immigration policies.
Times reports show Residents, especially Latinos with dark skinhave expressed the fear of being targets for ice agents, and even American citizens were swept away in their raids.
Chirla was one of the groups that continued the DHS on July 2, saying that their arrests and detentions in Los Angeles and the surrounding counties were illegal and targeted.
“The preponderance of individuals arrested and arrested during raids was not at all targeted in a significant sense of the term, except on the basis of their skin color and occupation”, ” wrote the complainants in their trial.
American district judge Maame Ewsi-Menesa Frimpong reigned in their favorWrite that DHS and ice may not use a race or apparent ethnicity, speaking Spanish or the occupation of a person to justify an arrest or detention.
The Trump administration is trying to These restrictions have raised.
