They denounce that Trump has already launched raids against the undocumented
The Trump administration has launched a series of raids, checks and roadblocks in several states of the country where undocumented immigrants have been detained in the last two days, several pro-immigrant organizations said Friday.
"In the last 24 hours, hundreds of immigrants have been arrested and detained, and members of the community - both people without immigration documents and US citizens - have been asked for their papers at highway checkpoints," they said in a statement Press organizations Firm and United We Dream.
The news of the arrests has raised a huge alarm among the undocumented people across the country who fear President Donald Trump will fulfill his promise to deport all 10 million undocumented immigrants estimated to be living in the United States.
Although the president later qualified that his priority was to deport those who were a danger, his critics point out that recent cases show that among those expelled are people who have committed no crime.
A spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security confirmed to the Washington Post that immigration officials have carried out work this week at residences and workplaces in Atlanta, Los Angeles and two other cities she did not name as part of the "routine" jobs of The agencies.
Pro-immigrant organizations said raids were also carried out in Vista, Pomona and Compton, California; Austin, Dallas and Pflugerville, Texas; Plant City, Florida; Alexandria and Annandale, Virginia; Charlotte and Burlington, North Carolina, as well as the Hudson Valley region in New York and the city of Wichita, Kansas.
Among the most dramatic and most alarmed cases is that of Guadalupe GarcÃa de Rayos, who came to this country as an undocumented teenager of 14 years in 1996. The woman of Mexican origin, who has two children born in the United States, was Arrested in a raid in 2008 and charged with identity theft for using a Social Security number to work that was not her own.
Since then began an immigration calvary that kept appealing a decision of deportation to Mexico. Finally, under the previous administration, he was allowed to stay in the country on condition that he periodically presented himself to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office for a review of his case.
When it was Thursday, the authorities surprised her by announcing that she was in detention and that she would be immediately deported.
His arrest has sparked outrage and protests around the country, as well as fearing millions of undocumented immigrants who have a life and families established in the United States.
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