In the early days of President Trump's first administration, many Kern County Organizations started a tip that people could contact if they found immigration enforcement measures.
Almost three weeks ago, the hotline began to sound again. In a panic voices, the callers reported the US border patrol agents to question Latin people in parking and gas stations – a large number of people. In some cases, they said a loving person was detained.
The Kern's Quick Response Network Active sprouted. Company employees and volunteers have left the Backersfield area – a home depot, a swap junction and other places where the border patrol is found. When they confirmed the tests, they tried to document scenes, including violations or use of power, as well as the names of the detainees and the witnesses interviewing the witnesses.
At the time The action of the multi -day boundary patrol The end of the border patrol's El Centro has reported that 78 unpredictable migrants have been arrested.
Gregory K. Krishnan, the head of the border patrols leading the El Centro sector in the Imperial Valley on the Border of Mexico. He said agents arrested people for illegally in the United States.
In the meantime, the lawyers in the scene, this action indiscriminately targeted Latin Farm workers and day workers, that is More people Was detained. El Centro – They questioned why agents from 300 miles to the south have taken action from the border.
Representatives for US Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement have not responded to the demands for comment.
Although the Rapid-Reason Network is not designed to interfere with the Network tests, its members played an important support role by describing the action and advising the detainees, said a partner in the network of Kern County.
During the first Trump administration, rapid-answer networks were released across the state. Social -led groups became the first to be safe for migrants who have been submerged by the threats of the tests and the mass deportation.
The prototype is straightforward: people who call immigration or border agents in their community or send a hotline. A sender announces to volunteers, responding to the reports that actually has an active activity. If verified, the sender can send the legitimate observer to monitor the situation and a lawyer to provide legal aid.
During the height of the infection, and the immigrants face the deportation threats under the administration of the Biden, many networks are important to provide information about vaccines and food aid to people.
After Trump was elected in November among promises to carry out the largest deportation campaign in American history, local organizations are throwing up the rapid-reproductive networks they built eight years ago.
In the first days of his new period, Trump released a Killing administrative orders The closure of asylum and declaration of illegal immigration as a national emergency on the southern border. The general feeling may be on his side. The latest referendum 55% of Americans from the New York Times and Ibsos have found that all those who have settled in the country have been severely or somewhat supported by illegal deportation.
Providing legal protection to immigrants detained by the authorities and preventing what networks do. They report to community members Their rights Ask the warrant if the snow is shown at their threshold and if you don't answer the questions. They insist people to document the meeting and report the incident. They ensure that families have an emergency plan.
They use text news and social media to warn people to warn people, and often, to reduce rumors that can persuade people to stay home from work and keep their children at home.
“Our primary goal is not panic, is to create power,” said Lisa Nax, co-managing director and legal director of California cooperation for immigrant justice that supports the rapid-reproductive networks across the state. “One of the largest roles that these social networks can play is to spread accurate information and eliminate false information.”
Before Trump was opened this week, the Bakersfield-Area tests unleashed the wave of fear throughout the central valley, where the rapid-reproduced networks were kicked into high gear, where often the diaspora workers help harvest the quarter of the food grown in the United States
At least half The state's 162,000 farm laborers are not documented, according to the estimates of the Central Labor Department and The research was conducted Author U.C. Mercedd. Many of those workers have children or spouses born here.
In the weeks following the Bakersfield Raid, Ken's Quick Response Network helped to distribute groceries to more than 200 families who were afraid to leave their homes, and coordinated the rides to the people who feared to take them to work. Network partners are investigating emergency rental assistance for families who lost their income after the tests.
Blanga Ojeda, organizer of the Hels the Valley of the Valley Watch Network, said: “There is too much panic. “The activity in Kerr … raised everyone's feeling, and is a little more suspicious than everyone else.”
The Domestic Empire Rapid Response Network, which has not been invited in eight months, has received nearly 140 calls and SMS, alerted for immigration enforcement activities in the aftermath of the Bakersfield operation, according to the Internal Coalition for Migrant Justice.
Volunteers with the network have responded to more than 70 reports in Riverside and San Bernardino districts. Posting updates on the group Instagram, which has so far helped remove the rumors of the Immigration Agent's views. It confirmed at least two on social media as of Friday afternoon.
Javier Hernandez, Managing Director of the Alliance, said it was not an easy task to respond to tests in a region of over 27,000 square miles. To meet that request, the Domestic Empire Network aims to make English and Spanish -speaking sender available daily from 4 am to midnight and work on training for 300 respondents.
The Valley Watch Network faces a similar challenge. It has trained more than 90 people since late last year, and is trying to appoint more legal observers to respond to potential enforcement activities in the distant agricultural communities of the San Joak's Valley.
“We want to mobilize as quickly as possible,” Ojeeta said, “Because it gives the ice to leave the place, then we have no evidence of what happened.”
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