More than 142,000 people deported in the first 100 days of Donald Trump's administration; the opening of concentration camps for detainees in U.S. military bases inside and outside its territory; forced incarceration in maximum security prisons in El Salvador of Venezuelans convicted without evidence or due process; overcrowding and mistreatment in 140 detention centers where 48,000 people were held incommunicado (the highest number in the last five years, 17% above the actual capacity of the system); and 1,400,000 immigrants with active deportation orders.
These are some public statistics of a racist immigration policy, arbitrary and questioned inside and outside the United States, which aims at one million deportees for its first year, and which is mounted as a political-military mega-operation; large-scale persecution that was part of the election campaign and of the fascistoid narrative of Trump and his team, manipulated with pretexts full of lies and unsustainable accusations against people and governments.
It also wields blackmail as a weapon of coercion against U.S. institutions and in bilateral and regional "diplomatic" relations, which punishes with legal, economic and all kinds of measures those who do not get on their knees before the Yankee emperor.
The Government and its repressive apparatus do not hide it, in a new demonstration of brutality, loaded with violence and racism, from which women and children do not escape, mothers forcibly separated from their children, families divided by detentions and deportations without judicial orders or any legal process whatsoever.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Homeland Security Criminal Investigations Agency, state and city police forces, and the Border Patrol, among others, are the protagonists of what they themselves call "the war against sanctuary cities.
They carry out raids and persecution operations everywhere, but with emphasis on migrant working class neighborhoods, commercial establishments, in the streets, in workplaces, and continue to generate fear, uncertainty and even panic, adding to what already existed.
However, the U.S. and international media have denounced the opacity or lack of transparency in the actual statistics offered by the immigration agencies at present, which have ceased to be provided on a monthly basis, as was done before, fleeing to scandal, protests, or to exhibit the denunciations of humanitarian and legal institutions, lawyers, judges and prosecutors who have issued orders against the President's excessive measures.
What they have not been able to hide are the popular revulsion and massive demonstrations condemning the flagrant violations of the human rights of migrants and their families by the Trump administration, which intensified on Monday, June 9, when new protests and Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, publicly reported that he would mobilize 700 Marines from a military base near Los Angeles, who would join the approximately 4,000 members of the California National Guard, which Trump ordered to deploy without the authorization of the state's governor, Gavin Newsom.
From the United States we hear denunciations of media manipulation of the facts in the social networks, of disinformation, demonizing the people protesting in order, from intoxication and lies, to help reinforce Trump's claims that the city had been taken over by "violent and insurrectionist mobs" or "paid insurgents".
The truth is that hundreds of people were arrested; the Police used powerful jets of water to repress the demonstrators who were swept away by the pressure of the liquid; others were victims of the sound grenades and tear gas to disperse the crowd.
California's own governor said he will sue the Trump administration over the National Guard deployment, which he and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass have called incendiary. He called it a "demented" and "dictatorial" decision.
According to U.S. sources, the trigger for the protests is the administration's aggressive attempt to increase the number of arrests and deportations, which on June 4 alone set a record of 2,200 arrests in one day, according to NBC News, a figure close to the daily average the White House is aiming for, which is 3,000, to continue increasing per day.
The demonstrations have been led by migrants, their children and Latino communities that denounce structural racism, police repression and a policy of criminalization of migrants.
Recently, the executive director of the network of Latin American immigrant organizations Alianza Americas, Dulce Guzman, stated that the establishment of a mandatory migrant registry "is not only an administrative measure, it is a dangerous tool of surveillance and criminalization that recalls some of the most damaging chapters of history, including the tactics used by Adolf Hitler to register, track and ultimately persecute entire populations. We must all fight against this persecution," he called.
Various sources assure that the protests against the immigration raids in the United States have gone beyond the limits of Los Angeles, the initial epicenter of the mobilizations, and are now expanding to other cities such as New York, Chicago, Austin, San Francisco, Dallas, Atlanta and Seattle, where thousands of people have taken to the streets to reject the emperor's anti-immigrant policy's encouragement of racism, violence, injustice and flagrant violation of fundamental rights
