LA Ice protests spurred US military to identify ‘hotels to avoid’ due to ‘harassment’ | Los Angeles Ice protests

When Donald Trump’s administration increased the immigrant raids in Los Angeles in early this summer, protest organizers responded with actions staged in an unusual environment: hotels where immigrant officers stayed.

Protests, immigration and customs practices (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) were detected in several Southern California Hotels. Some activists “No sleep for ice” ralliesIn the hope of pressure on hotels, cheering and music throughout the night Kick agents out.

Now, public records shared with Guardian show that protests are indeed sending federal agencies to find hotels for their “not harassed” officers in Los Angeles.

June 16 E -Post from the US Maritime Posts shows that military officials make a list of “La Hotels .. Seafarers, information of the community of the Ice and Border Patrol of more than one law enforcement force, he said. The list was written by Ordu North, the Domestic Defense Command was placed on the ground During the protestsand the south-west section of the navy.

Documents obtained by The property of peopleA government transparency, which is not a profit, argues that Trump successfully disrupts immigration pressure by targeting hotels, although the scope of the scope of the scope of the impacts of the protesters.

An e-mail thread shows that a Marine Corps analyst in San Diego sends the LA hotel list to San Diego Law Enforcement Coordination Center (SD-LeCC) looking for a similar property list to avoid San Diego. The analyst’s tasks include “critical infrastructure protection ve and his names were corrected. SD-LECC is a fusion center in which local, state and federal agencies share intelligence.

The LA list is based on “Harassment of Ice and CBP personnel” reports, saying that the Analyst said, ız We have operations in the region and we want to avoid problems where possible, ”he said.

Authorities did not disclose hotel names or more communication to the property of people, so it is unclear how hotel shows explode and follow.

Seafarers and navy spokesman refused to postpone the army that did not respond to the investigations. The Ministry of Internal Security did not answer questions about the hotel protests, and after the publication of this article, he sent questions to a spokesman army on Thursday.

SD-LECC’s Deputy Director Laughlin said Guardian was not aware of the protests in the hotels in the San Diego region of SD-Lecc and did not give a list in response to the army’s request.

The army’s efforts to help federal personnel avoid demonstrators in hotels came after taking the extraordinary step of deploying Trump’s national guards and maritime prostrates to respond to the protests of lar protests. The movement was badly destroyed among the US inhabitants and led to low morale reports between troops.

Ryan Shapiro, the executive director of the people who demanded a series of registrations about La immigration raids, said that the US armed forces had to look for accommodation that would not be protested, and that he had to look for an unusual foresight in the administration.

“The document reveals that Trump’s Nativist Crusade, which was carried out by the masked ice bandits, is so wide that the US army feels the need to hide from Americans in Americans,” he said.

The defenders participating in the protests confirmed the effectiveness of the e -mails, some of the nearby residents. News reports in June, including hotel shows in La County municipalities, Pasadena– Glendale– Long Beach– Whittier– Down– Monrovia And Montebello.

“The working -class people saw this as a way to join the struggle against ICE, Ron said Ron Gochez, the leading member of Unión Del Barrio, who documented Ice actions in Los Angeles. Gochez, at the summit of the June raids, the group of people who identified immigrant officers in hotels, said that he received five to 10 calls a day. After the reports were verified by photos or hotel employees, Unión Del warned other community groups on the Networks.

“Many hotel workers not only got angry at the officers who stayed there, but they were also afraid that they were undocumented,” he said. “People want to make life difficult for these agents to kidnap and separate the families. And I think that the agents are constantly unwanted, that people in society hate what they have done, that they will go down as kidnapped and collaborators in the past, and I think they will reach them psychologically.”

One of the first hotel demonstrations took place at AC Hotel in Pasadena, a Marriott property, where immigrants were accommodated according to a state senator on June 8th. Questioned staff.

Pasadena Community Business Center Director Jose Madera, a day working center, said, ik We wanted to inform the community that ice remained in the hotel and that they were not welcomed in Pasadena on ice. ”

The widespread shared images showed that the protesters chee when the federal vehicles left the hotel, the agents came out of the bags stacked in a car, La Times reported.

“It was effective because the community organically organized itself, and people did not leave until they saw that the agents were separated,” he said. “We started this for people living and working in Pasadena and organized other communities to buy ice from hotels… will receive many strategies to slow down and stop ice raids.”

Protesters published in Glendale Hilton on June 12th pull A woman who describes herself as hotel management Protesters greeting And to say that the officers are separated and that they will no longer stay there.

Glendale and Pasadena Hotels representatives did not answer questions.

Teto Huezo, who was a part of the defense coalition of the La community, which was in the Glendale protests and followed ICE, said, “This helps to struggle for this feeling of despair,” he said. He said that more protests would commit to keeping hotels open to the public. “Community members should be proud of these gains. The course can be much more organized and smarter than these agencies, and if we don’t want them in our neighborhoods, we can actually take action to force them.”