Immigrant rights activists braced for crackdown as Trump threatens to target ‘leftwing’ groups | US immigration

Immigrant advocacy organizations and activists are preparing for a pressure from the federal government to root and prosecute the criminal groups that they believe to sympathize with “leftist” politics from the Trump administration.

Donald Trump and his nearest allies periodically threatened immigrant rights activists and non -profit organizations, including those who distribute immigrants and immigrants to immigrants or provide legal services to immigrants. However, this month on the right of the murder of activist Charlie Kirk’in increased rhetoric.

Last week, JD Vance described civil rights groups as a “domestic terrorist movement ,, while the US president’s best Trump assistant Stephen Miller, the administration of the US president, will have non-profit organizations, including immigrants and police-reform organizations.

And on Tuesday, a warning of immigration and Customs Protection Agency (ICE) followed: “Regardless of the status of immigration, everyone will face prosecution against the federal heavy attack attacking an ice officer and the end of the law against prosecution.” Meanwhile, the Ministry of Internal Security (DHS) expanded the definition of “threats ına to the film to include ice operations.

Illinois immigrant and refugee rights Coalition (ICIRR) threats for Brandon Lee, Migrant Rights Communication Director, represented another memory in which Trump administration tries to reduce speech, organize, to intimidate our people ”.

“This is another example of the atmosphere of fear that the administration is trying to create, Lee Lee said.

Lawyers and activists said that they advised Guardian to pay attention to immigrants and raids to pay attention to staff and volunteers, and at the same time giving up their first rights to document their migration of immigration practices.

Lee organizes the teams to observe the raids and help their families to help their families.

“Our role in our fast response teams is not to intervene in ice operations. Our team members are aware of the right to filming and sharing information in public spaces,” he said. The organization tends to send volunteers in couples or groups and advises them to stay away from civil servants.

Lee said that the last discourse of the Trump administration felt “increasing, but that the groups like him have been dealing with these threats for months. “These tactics are not different from what they have threatened throughout the year, Lee Lee said. “Not for the first time they do not threaten to pursue non -profit organizations. No for the first time after dry foundations.”

Federal agents, elected officials, protesters and spectators in immigrant raids and detention centers have increasingly arrested. On Thursday, in New York, ICE arrested at least 71 people, including democratic deputies and activists who protested in a federal building in which ICE detained immigrants. While MPs demanded access to ice detection cells, another group tried to block the garage doors typically used by ice to carry trucks with detained immigrants.

The arrests were part of the aggressive tactics used against protesters and MPs who wanted to show the conditions within the ice facilities and to demonstrate against the raids of the agency.

In May, New Jersey Congress Member Lamonica McIver was accused of attacking or blocking federal agents while being arrested Mayor of Newark Ras Baraka, who is there with a group Deputies trying to observe an detention center. In legal applications, MCIVER said that the indictment exaggerated the moments of physical contact between the agents who arrested MCIVER and the mayor of MCI and that McIver’s actions were part of the authorized surveillance tasks as a congress member.

Some charges against protesters have been ultimately reduced or exaggerated. This summer, the Guardian review of a icy protests in Los Angeles found that several accusations were based on false or misleading expressions from law enforcement officers.

This week, a jury, a protester in Los Angeles Brayan Ramos-Brito was not guilty without attacking a border agent, and Ramos-Brito did not have images to wear the officer, while an agent broadcasted by Guardian forcibly pushed Ramos-Brito.

“We are in an environment and you see an aggressive level [from Ice and other federal agencies] Maybe you’ve never seen before, ”he said. Armando Gudino, General Manager of the Los Angeles Workers Center Network, a group defending the immigrant workers in the city.

Gudino said ICE and DHS could increase the arrests of defenders and activists. “This is the unfortunate assassination of the individual, only the difficulties we have experienced,” he said. “We see opportunities accusing the authorities and those who defend the murder of Charlie Kirk.”

However, many immigration rights and civil rights groups, at least for now, said they plan to continue their work normally.

Orlando Justice Center General Manager Melissa L Marantes, “We will continue to serve. We will continue to follow. And we will continue to watch. And we will continue to do the best we can do under conditions. And you know, you know, justice and justice will dominate,” he said.

“What gives me a little hope – at least in the social justice and immigrant justice movement in Texas – I think we are more difficult than great institutional media and great law,” he said. “We are all warriors.”

And for some groups, especially for those organized for the first time in Trump, the pressure is very familiar.

Project South, a Atlanta -based advocacy group, has helped communities in the South for policy changes, organizing protests and providing legal support for decades. In 2020, the group represented a notice of an ice nurse who said that immigrant women detained in a Georgian prison in Georgia were exposed to non -consent gynecological procedures, including hysterectomy.

Project South said he learned from his experiences at that time, Az Azadeh Shahshahani, the legal and advocacy director of the group. Project South and other groups in 2017 He was with glasses After trying to raise awareness about a suicide in the Georgian detention center, with ice.

“Instead of dealing with fear, we will continue to organize and protect and protect each other,” Shahshahani added.

José Olives and Alexandra Villarreal contributed to reporting