Last Sunday, Florida It was one of the states where the United States immigration and customs control service (ICEfor its acronym in English), activated several raids that ended in the arrest of illegal immigrants. In the midst of the movement, testimonies of people emerged, as was the case of a man of Miami who denounced the “Kidnapping” of his wife for federal agentsa few days after its anniversary.
In an exclusive interview with CBS Newsthe man, who asked to preserve his identity, denounced that the agents be They took his wife in one of the operations In the Brownsville neighborhood. “It is despicable what they are doing now,” he said. “It’s very shameful,” he said before the aforementioned medium.
The man made a request to President Donald Trump in a public way and begged him to leave his wife stay in the country, already that on Friday, January 31, 11 years of married. In addition, as he argued, the woman, of Venezuelan origin, was in the process of obtaining American citizenship and even had an appointment in court.
“Simply, they came and took it”he recalled. The woman, whose name is unknown publicly, It was one of the three people who were arrested During the raid in the Brownsville community, the other two were men who worked in the construction area.
A few hours ago, the Miami Office of National Security Research (HSI) shared through its networks images of the operations that were carried out and the arrests of undocumented immigrants in collaboration with the agents of the ICE of Miami and the United States Department of Justice.
Nationally, the efforts of the various federal agencies are concentrated in the “sanctuary” states that have a large number of immigrants. Until this Tuesday, January 28, ICE communicated through its networks which have 956 arrests in the country and 554 retention orders presented.
Within these arrests, much were executed in Chicago, Illinois, and Texas, states that became the epicenter of controls and raids of the agents during the last week, which generates an environment of fear and uncertainty among citizens.
Florida He is one of the strategic allies to carry out the massive deportations that Trump promised in the campaign, not only for having the governor’s support Ron desantiswho is aligned to their policies, but for having more than one million undocumented immigrants in their territory.
Aware of this panorama, The governor has established a series of actions to deal with the “crisis” and support the president. Initially, he summoned a legislative session in order to reinforce and update the current immigration laws to bring them closer to Trump for the week of January 27.
In this level, within the legal actions that the leader of the state of Florida implemented the destination of greater resources to ensure borders, criminalize illegal entry into the country, limit remittance transfers, among others.
