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The ICE Tax Imposes Yet Another Heavy Price All Minnesotans Must Pay
Tue, 29 Sep 2026 16:01:35 +0000
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The Twin Cities know first hand the pain and violence of ICE raids. Another casualty is their economy Minnesotans are all too familiar with the pain and violence of the Trump administration’s unsparing mass deportation agenda. This past January, Minneapolis mom Renée Nicole Good had just finished dropping off one of her children at school… Continue »
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The Twin Cities know first hand the pain and violence of ICE raids. Another casualty is their economy
Minnesotans are all too familiar with the pain and violence of the Trump administration’s unsparing mass deportation agenda. This past January, Minneapolis mom Renée Nicole Good had just finished dropping off one of her children at school when she was shot and killed by a mass deportation agent. Just a few weeks later, VA ICU nurse Alex Pretti was attempting to tend to a demonstrator who’d been shoved by mass deportation agents when he was shot point-blank in the head.
This bloody agenda reverberated far beyond the peaceful neighborhoods where Good and Pretti violently lost their lives. Under the administration’s Operation Metro Surge, this unprecedented surge of thousands of masked, armed federal agents resulted in what human rights experts have described as a campaign of “racial profiling, harassment, and surveillance.” This wave of violence stomped on personal freedoms, deprived residents of the ability to go to work, visit the doctor’s office and attend school. And, it cost the local economy millions.
TERRORIZE THE PEOPLE, RUIN THE ECONOMY
This “ICE Tax” has carried a steep price for working people all over the country – and the Twin Cities rank among the metro areas hardest hit by the enforcement surge.
In 2025, ICE arrests in the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington metro area jumped 679 percent, from an average of 60 arrests per month in 2024 to 467 per month after the surge began, according to Brookings’ analysis of Deportation Data Project records. This represents one of the largest increases among the 86 U.S. metro areas Brookings identified as 2025 “surge cities.”
Nationwide, the 2025 ICE surge eliminated an estimated 668,000 jobs, including some estimates as high as 297,000 jobs held by U.S.-born workers. Applying the surge’s national job losses to the Twin Cities’ 2024 employment base suggests an estimated 14,200 jobs lost in the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington metro area alone. Labor market data reveals that the leisure and hospitality industries were hit hardest, losing 4,000 jobs in January 2026 alone. “Excluding the pandemic, these are the largest employment declines Minnesota has seen in both leisure and hospitality and accommodation and food services since 2007,” according to North Star Policy Action.
Local reporting confirms these findings on the ground: Minneapolis businesses lost an estimated $10 million to $20 million in sales each week during the operation while some immigrant-owned businesses lost up to 100% of revenue, according to city estimates. Dan Swenson-Klatt had to close his 20-year-old cafe after enforcement drove away many of his Latino and Somali customers, saying: “We don’t have the resources to maintain this.” Russ Adams, manager for corridor recovery initiatives, called it “an economic crisis of catastrophic proportions.” Read the full Minnesota fact sheet here.
THE ECONOMIC DESTRUCTION GOES BEYOND MINNESOTA
During a Capitol Hill press conference held in conjunction with America’s Voice this month, Congressional Hispanic Caucus members shared how this ICE Tax has been devastating their local communities in ways that impact all working Americans no matter their legal immigration status.
“Every week in San Antonio, there are restaurants announcing they’re closing, that they can no longer keep their doors open,” Texas Rep. Joaquin Castro said during the event. The San Antonio Express-News said that the Texas Restaurant Association “reported that 36% of surveyed operators have lost employees, and 28% saw fewer applicants or fewer offers accepted because of immigration enforcement.” Blanca Aldaco, owner of Aldaco’s Mexican Cuisine, told the outlet that many workers “are afraid to go out to work and afraid to go out and support the business. The fear of ICE has affected every industry, and we are feeling it all the way from the landscaper to the kitchen crew.”
This trend from Minnesota and Texas is happening all over the nation, as Rep. Castro noted in his remarks. “There are shops in towns across America who either can’t find the labor employees to keep them open, or they can’t find the buyers to keep them going.”
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ELECTED LEADERS WHO ENABLED THIS TO HAPPEN MUST BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE
“Minnesota families have already paid a painful price for this administration’s mass deportation agenda that resulted in unprecedented violence, unchecked lawlessness, and total chaos,” said America’s Voice Executive Director Vanessa Cárdenas. “Now we have the receipts on the economic damage too: ICE arrests in the Twin Cities surged nearly sevenfold, and the toll shows up in lost jobs, shuttered storefronts, and higher prices for every family in this state, whether they wanted this fight or not.”
“Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda – supported by his allies in Congress – has cost Minnesota dearly,” Cárdenas continued. “It’s time to end it, and end the ICE tax with it.”
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Sticker Shock: Trump’s ICE Machine Draws Fire From Ranchers and Home Builders
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Mon, 28 Sep 2026 19:57:34 +0000
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Washington, DC – Two industries central to the American economy – cattle groups and homebuilders – are sounding the alarm on Donald Trump and Stephen Miller’s mass deportation campaign. Vanessa Cárdenas, Executive Director of America’s Voice, issued the following statement: “Donald Trump’s mass deportation ICE machine is feeling the heat from cattle, construction and other… Continue »
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Washington, DC – Two industries central to the American economy – cattle groups and homebuilders – are sounding the alarm on Donald Trump and Stephen Miller’s mass deportation campaign.
Vanessa Cárdenas, Executive Director of America’s Voice, issued the following statement:
“Donald Trump’s mass deportation ICE machine is feeling the heat from cattle, construction and other industry leaders concerned about soaring prices and an increasingly unstable workforce. Trump promised to lower costs, but his mass deportation machine is driving up the price of everything from a hamburger to a home. Ranchers and home builders across the country are delivering the same clear warning, yet the administration refuses to listen. Trump and his allies have sent armed and masked agents after the workers who feed and house this country, leaving families at the grocery checkout and families priced out of the housing market to foot the bill. Chaos has a price, and American families are paying it. Lawmakers who voted to bankroll this machine cannot pretend to be surprised by the damage. Congress must rein in ICE and deliver real solutions for essential workers and the industries that depend on them.”
Last week, cattle groups in Texas, Kansas, and Oklahoma warned that ICE operations are having a “massive chilling effect” on the workers who keep the beef supply chain running. Thousands of cattle bound for processors have been left in limbo by delays in shipping costing the industry millions in lost revenue, with beef prices already at record highs.
According to the Kansas Livestock Association, some meatpacking plants in Dodge City, Liberal, and Garden City temporarily shut down and returned cattle to feedlots. “We urge federal officials to conduct enforcement actions in a lawful, orderly, and transparent manner; respect due process; and communicate clearly with affected employers and communities,” the organizations said in their statement.
Home builders face the same damage. Immigrants make up more than a quarter of the construction workforce, and the industry is already facing a deficit of roughly 300,000 workers. According to the National Association of Home Builders, immigration enforcement is keeping crews off job sites, delaying builds, and raising costs amid an existing national shortage of roughly 1.2 million homes. In a recent amicus brief, NAHB argued that the administration’s mandatory detention policy is forcing project cancellations and further shrinking the inventory of available homes. America’s Voice’s End the ICE Tax report found the same pattern: in the five states most reliant on immigrant labor, construction employment fell 1.3 percent while it grew 3.3 percent in the rest of the country, and new-home prices in the Northeast climbed 15.4 percent.
The fallout is so severe that even Republican lawmakers who voted to pour billions into ICE are now demanding the agency coordinate with local law enforcement in Kansas, with one acknowledging that ICE’s operations there caused “mass disruptions to local communities and businesses.” From feedyards to job sites, American businesses, workers, and consumers are feeling the strain of the administration’s deportation agenda.
To learn more about the economic harms of mass deportation, read our End the ICE Tax report.
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HHS is Making it Impossible for Lawyers to Protect Immigrant Children (Or Their Own Bar Licenses)
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Thu, 24 Sep 2026 16:56:34 +0000
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The Trump administration’s attacks threaten children’s safety – and legal ethics This is a guest post by Shannon Fyfe, Ph.D, J.D., Associate Professor of Law, Washington and Lee University. As Trump continues to test the extent of his power, systematically going after the most vulnerable population in our country, and those who defend them, he… Continue »
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The Trump administration’s attacks threaten children’s safety – and legal ethics
This is a guest post by Shannon Fyfe, Ph.D, J.D., Associate Professor of Law, Washington and Lee University.
As Trump continues to test the extent of his power, systematically going after the most vulnerable population in our country, and those who defend them, he is now pushing the limits to attorney ethics. This flippant abuse of power and attacks to decades of precedent is putting bar licenses and more importantly the lives of children at risk.
Unaccompanied migrant children arrive at our border alone, fleeing dangerous situations, and remain one of the most isolated and vulnerable groups of people in this country. The Trump administration has decided to exploit their position by threatening their access to legal representation and making it impossible for their attorneys to act in their interests. We should be very worried about these children, and about what this means for the U.S. legal profession’s ideals of public service and zealous representation of clients.
For eight months, Trump directed his Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) under Health and Human Services (HHS) to withhold $65 million in completed legal services for these children until a court order recently forced them to issue payments. He held the funds hostage hoping to barter for confidential information about the vulnerable clients represented by Acacia Center for Justice and its network of nearly 100 legal service providers across the country.
This demand for confidential information is illegal, asks attorneys to violate their most fundamental ethical duties, and puts children at risk of being trafficked, abused, and exploited by our very government. The network’s spine to stand up to Trump cost them as some offices had to close their doors entirely.
Serving vulnerable children, protecting them from dangers, and acting in their best interest, is nothing new to the American people. Under Section 235(c) of the 2008 Trafficking Victims Protection Act and Section 462(b) of the 2002 Homeland Security Act, ORR is required to provide legal representation to unaccompanied kids “to the greatest extent practicable.” For nearly two decades, through both Republican and Democrat administrations, Congress fulfilled these obligations to protect these vulnerable children, and funded legal representation for unaccompanied migrant children, including through Acacia.
For five-and-a-half years, Acacia submitted their invoices to ORR with copious cost documentation and receipts, with all identifying case information and personally identifiable information redacted. ORR did not require any details on children’s individual legal eligibility, case postures, or legal case summaries to fund representation for unaccompanied children. Suddenly, that wasn’t enough.
In the final months of the latest contract with Acacia, ORR began demanding case-specific information for payment, months after the work had already been completed. This included receipts with identifying client information as to claim types sought, identification of the representing attorney not otherwise known to ORR, cost types specific to a case that might prejudice a client’s case if revealed, and unredacted mental and medical health evaluations relevant to children’s cases.
The attorneys representing unaccompanied migrant children have no legal authority to disclose this information to ORR, more importantly they are ethically obligated to keep such client information confidential. Under the Model Rules of Professional Conduct (MRPC), promulgated by the American Bar Association and adopted in some form by every state bar association in the U.S., an attorney “shall not reveal information relating to the representation of a client unless the client gives informed consent, the disclosure is implicitly authorized in order to carry out the representation or the disclosure is permitted [under a list of specific circumstances].”
Additionally, children constitute clients with “decision-making limitations,” and attorneys have a special duty of care to support such clients’ decision-making abilities within the attorney-client relationship. ORR’s demand for confidential information thus creates an untenable conflict for attorneys: lose funding for an ongoing or former representation of a client, or risk harming the client’s autonomy and/or interests. Choosing the latter option would also put attorneys at risk of sanctions from their respective state bar associations.
It isn’t difficult to connect the dots between this new demand for confidential information about children and Trump’s mass deportation agenda. Already, kid clients, close to obtaining temporary status such as Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, Trafficking Visas, and U visas for crime victims; were being fast tracked through immigration court dockets for deportation. Then, as Acacia continued to zealously defend its child clients, and uphold its legal ethics to protect their confidential information, Trump decided to not renew the contract and instead hand it over to an inexperienced and understaffed law firm and dubious anti-trafficking organization with no legal services expertise. The dismantling of protections for children, disruption in their experienced legal representation, and rogue attempt to contradict legal ethics, will ultimately result in vulnerable children being further harmed.
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Trump Creates the Perfect Storm for a Shift in November
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Thu, 24 Sep 2026 15:19:01 +0000
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Washington, DC – Below is a column by Maribel Hastings from America’s Voice en Español translated to English from Spanish. It ran in several Spanish-language media outlets earlier this week: As the November 3 midterm elections approach, Donald Trump’s excesses are intensifying in his crude attempt to distract voters from the economic disaster his policies… Continue »
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Washington, DC – Below is a column by Maribel Hastings from America’s Voice en Español translated to English from Spanish. It ran in several Spanish-language media outlets earlier this week:
As the November 3 midterm elections approach, Donald Trump’s excesses are intensifying in his crude attempt to distract voters from the economic disaster his policies and decisions have caused. It’s no wonder his approval rating stands at 32 percent—the lowest of his political career—according to a Reuters-Ipsos poll.
Support for Trump is also eroding among Hispanic voters in districts and states that will be decisive for a likely change in control of Congress.
Trump is threatening to tear down the Kennedy Center because he has failed to have his name added to the historic facility. He is revoking White House press credentials for journalists from CNN, MS NOW, and POLITICO because he dislikes how they cover his presidency. He accuses them of reporting “fake” news—even though he himself is the king of falsehoods, such as claiming that there is a widespread problem of non-citizens voting fraudulently.
And even though poll after poll shows voters disapprove of the excesses of his immigration policy, over the weekend, agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) were involved in several violent incidents.
In Austin, Texas, ICE agents shot a DoorDash delivery driver, 28-year-old Venezuelan Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez. The young man claims that a van struck his car twice and that he did not realize they were agents until they turned on their lights and sirens, which is why he proceeded to pull over to a safer location.
DHS claims there was a chase, but regardless of the circumstances, Garcés was shot near his spine, is being held by ICE, and the bullet has not yet been removed.
“He is being held in Pearsall for questioning and still has the bullet lodged in his body. He has not received any pain medication and has had to sleep on the floor,” his attorney, Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch, wrote on X.
This is the third Latino to be shot by ICE in recent months. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo died in Houston on July 7 during a traffic stop. Salgado Araujo was in the process of regularizing his immigration status. On July 13, an ICE agent killed Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Maine. The 25-year-old Colombian immigrant had a work permit.
In another incident in Evanston, Illinois, ICE agents who were allegedly searching for a fugitive beat a man who turned out to be a U.S. citizen and was not the fugitive they were looking for. They left him on the ground with injuries to his neck, head, and teeth. The agents fled, and it was residents who took him to the hospital.
This is the same ICE that shot and killed U.S. citizens Renée Good and Alex Pretti in separate incidents in Minneapolis, Minnesota, earlier this year.
Then DHS blames the victims, and impunity prevails.
However, polls and protests across the country reflect the discontent and frustration of an electorate whose promises were not kept. Trump promised to lower the cost of living and fix the immigration system by removing “the worst of the worst” from the country.
But what he did was fund a detention and deportation machine targeting people with no criminal history. In the process, he has torn families apart, left behind family members—including citizen children—economically destitute, and depleted the workforce in key industries of our economy such as agriculture, construction, restaurants, hotels, and hospitals.
A cruel and violent system that continues to claim lives during raids and in detention centers that receive billions of dollars yet provide neither food nor adequate medical care, and where abuse and mistreatment are the order of the day.
But that’s not all—his immigration policy raises prices for Americans through the ICE Tax.
To complete the picture, his war in Iran has sent fuel prices skyrocketing, and while he squanders billions on the armed conflict and his army of detentions and deportations, he is cutting benefits from social programs like Medicaid and leaving millions of Americans without health insurance.
Trump himself has created a perfect storm for change to take hold in November. If Americans channel their anger and frustration into votes, and if, of course, the president doesn’t pull some “crisis” out of thin air to interfere in the election.
The original Spanish version is here.
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Mass Arrests, Broken Families: Inside Trump’s Violent Mass Deportation Machine
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Thu, 24 Sep 2026 13:54:36 +0000
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Donald Trump and his allies have built a mass deportation machine that runs on violence and disorder, and Americans are living with the fallout: chaos, fear, and cruelty tearing through their neighborhoods, hitting them at the register and on their block. Last weekend in Austin, an ICE agent shot a Venezuelan delivery driver during a… Continue »
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Donald Trump and his allies have built a mass deportation machine that runs on violence and disorder, and Americans are living with the fallout: chaos, fear, and cruelty tearing through their neighborhoods, hitting them at the register and on their block.
Last weekend in Austin, an ICE agent shot a Venezuelan delivery driver during a pursuit, leaving him seriously wounded, with a bullet still in his back. It’s the kind of encounter now playing out in schools, workplaces, and homes across the country, with no regard for who gets caught in the middle, and courts are already stepping in to stop some of these tactics. Trump, Stephen Miller, and their allies in Congress have flooded the agency with cash, deployed it with impunity, and pushed agents to hit arrest quotas at any cost. The result is the same dangerous chaos, over and over, in every part of the country.
Here’s what the record shows:
The Scale of the Crackdown
ICE has arrested more than 253,000 people nationwide this year, according to an ABC News Data Team analysis of Deportation Data Project figures.
At least 36 people have died in ICE detention in 2026, including Edwin Lopez Cornejo and Lianyong Wei – both within the last two months.
The White House claims it has deported more than 605,000 people since Trump returned to office, but the most rigorous independent tracker, Syracuse University’s TRAC project, counts just 290,603 verified ICE removals, despite a massive surge in spending and personnel.
Congress has handed DHS nearly $261 billion for immigration enforcement in under a year – $191 billion from the 2025 reconciliation bill and another $69.5 billion from the June 2026 Secure America Act. DHS says it’s on track to spend 75% of the first pot by the end of this month, even as no comprehensive public accounting exists of how it’s actually being used.
Children Are Being Detained, Deported, and Left Behind
A Marshall Project and MSNow investigation found ICE detained more than 500 children age 3 and younger between January 2025 and March 2026, with roughly 25 babies and toddlers held on an average day.
Stephen Miller is personally directing a whole-of-government push across at least five federal departments to speed up the removal of undocumented children. Nearly 200,000 children have been ordered removed by immigration judges since Trump returned to office, double the rate from before his term.
Two Fort Worth teenagers, both U.S. citizens, spent nearly a year on their own after ICE arrested and deported their parents in August 2025. Nineteen-year-old Dulce Zepeda has been raising her 13-year-old sister and sold her mother’s jewelry to pay the bills.
Earlier this month, ICE agents detained the parents of a 2-year-old and a 5-year-old minutes after school drop-off near John Marshall Elementary in San Diego – one of at least four ICE arrests near San Diego schools in a two-week span.
Two 17-year-old U.S. citizens were pepper-sprayed and beaten by ICE agents in Alamo, Texas, with video showing an agent striking one teen repeatedly while he was on the ground. The pair had been on their way to enlist in the Marine Corps. A mother of one of the teens who spoke out about what happened to her son was summarily deported a week later.
Military Families Are Not Off Limits
An Associated Press investigation released in August 2026 found the administration has detained more than 50 spouses and parents of active-duty troops, with at least six deported. DHS separately told Senate Democrats it detained 125 military veterans and arrested more than 150 immediate family members of service members in just over a year.
Border Patrol arrested Luis Manuel Aviles, father of Navy sailor Joshua Aviles, in Key West while his son was nine months into deployment aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln. “This is heartbreaking for me. I don’t know how I can mentally continue working 12+ hour days knowing that my dad is somewhere, possibly treated like a criminal,” Joshua wrote after learning of the arrest.
Retired Staff Sgt. Wilmer Trujillo, a 20-year Army and Texas National Guard veteran who deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, is fighting to bring home his wife, Arelys Barahona-Martinez. She has no criminal record but was detained during a routine ICE check-in. Their American son depends on her care for a serious medical condition.
Army Sgt. Hedar Leonel Turcios Juarez’s wife was detained by ICE outside a Walmart in El Paso in front of their 6-year-old daughter and later deported to Honduras.
Army Spc. Jasmine Hernandez enlisted in part to protect her undocumented father, but ICE detained him anyway. He remains at the Eloy Detention Center in Arizona.
U.S. Citizens And Lawful Permanent Residents Are Being Wrongfully Targeted, Beaten, and Detained
A federal judge in Alabama temporarily blocked ICE from conducting warrantless raids on construction sites after ruling agents likely violated the Fourth Amendment when they tackled U.S. citizen Leo Garcia Venegas, rejected his valid REAL ID, and held him anyway – three separate times.
ICE detained Venkata Vasamsetty, a North Carolina special-needs teacher who’d held a green card for 13 years, even after a judge dismissed the government’s case against her months earlier. Her legal team says she’s insulin-dependent and didn’t receive proper diabetic care while detained.
ICE agents tackled and struck an Evanston, Illinois man after mistaking him for someone else, leaving him with head, neck, and dental injuries. Agents released him once they confirmed he was a U.S. citizen.
An 18-year-old Norfolk woman says agents handcuffed and detained her in front of her 4-year-old sister after claiming her valid Virginia ID was fake – even after her 15-year-old sister rushed over with her birth certificate.
A 19-year-old Boise resident and U.S. citizen says ICE detained him and used him as bait to lure his father after he stopped to record an enforcement operation.
ICE agents pinned a U.S. citizen Georgia man against a jet bridge wall and handcuffed him at the Atlanta airport – after he’d already passed through TSA and facial recognition. The detention was a case of mistaken identity based on a shared name and birthdate.
During “Operation Metro Surge” in Minnesota, ICE arrested 131 U.S. citizens on allegations of assaulting federal officers, though the vast majority of those cases ultimately collapsed in court, according to the agency’s own acting director.
The bottom line: This is what a deportation system without guardrails looks like: children detained, military families torn apart, and people gunned down on their own streets. No agency tasked with public safety should operate this way. Congress and the administration must rein in ICE’s tactics, restore oversight and accountability, and build an immigration system that treats people with basic humanity.
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Trump crea tormenta perfecta para un cambio en noviembre
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Wed, 23 Sep 2026 18:25:36 +0000
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Al aproximarse las elecciones intermedias del 3 de noviembre, más se intensifican los excesos de Donald Trump en su burdo intento de distraer a los electores del desastre económico que sus políticas y decisiones han generado. No por nada su índice de aprobación se ubica en 32%, el más bajo de su carrera política, según… Continue »
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Al aproximarse las elecciones intermedias del 3 de noviembre, más se intensifican los excesos de Donald Trump en su burdo intento de distraer a los electores del desastre económico que sus políticas y decisiones han generado. No por nada su índice de aprobación se ubica en 32%, el más bajo de su carrera política, según una encuesta de Reuters-Ipsos.
La erosión del apoyo a Trump se está dando también entre votantes hispanos en distritos y estados definitorios para un probable cambio de mando en el Congreso.
Trump amenaza con demoler el Kennedy Center porque no ha logrado agregar su nombre a la histórica instalación. Revoca las credenciales de Casa Blanca de periodistas de CNN, MS NOW y POLITICO porque no le gusta cómo cubren su presidencia y los acusa de dar noticias “falsas” aunque él sea el rey de las falsedades. Como proclamar que existe un problema generalizado de no ciudadanos votando fraudulentamente.
Y a pesar de que en sondeo tras sondeo los votantes le señalan que no aprueban los excesos de su política migratoria, durante el fin de semana agentes del Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (ICE) protagonizaron varios incidentes violentos.
En Austin, Texas, los agentes de ICE tirotearon a un repartidor de DoorDash, el venezolano Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez, de 28 años de edad. El joven alega que una camioneta golpeó su auto en dos ocasiones y que él no supo que eran agentes hasta que encendieron luces y sirenas y que por eso procedió para detenerse en un lugar más seguro.
El DHS alega que hubo una persecución, pero, sea cual sea el caso, Garcés terminó con una bala cerca de la columna vertebral, está detenido por ICE, y todavía no le remueven el proyectil.
“Está retenido en Pearsall para ser interrogado y todavía tiene la bala alojada en el cuerpo. No ha recibido analgésicos y ha tenido que dormir en el suelo”, escribió en X su abogada Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch.
Este es el tercer latino en ser baleado por ICE en los últimos meses. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo murió en Houston el 7 de julio en una intervención de tránsito. Salgado Araujo estaba en proceso de regularizar su situación migratoria. Y el 13 de julio, un agente de ICE mató a Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, en Maine. El inmigrante colombiano de 25 años de edad tenía permiso de trabajo.
En otro incidente en Evanston, Illinois, agentes de ICE que presuntamente buscaban a un fugitivo golpearon a un hombre que resultó ser ciudadano estadounidense y tampoco era el fugitivo buscado. Lo dejaron en el suelo con lesiones en el cuello, la cabeza y los dientes. Los agentes huyeron y fueron vecinos del lugar quienes lo trasladaron al hospital.
Este es el mismo ICE que mató a tiros a los ciudadanos estadounidenses Renée Good y Alex Pretti en hechos separados en Minneapolis, Minnesota, a principios de este año.
Luego el DHS culpa a las víctimas y prevalece la impunidad.
Sin embargo, los sondeos y las manifestaciones a través del país reflejan el descontento y el hartazgo de un electorado al que no le cumplieron las promesas. Trump prometió bajar el costo de vida y componer el sistema migratorio sacando del país a “lo peor de lo peor”.
Pero lo que hizo fue financiar una maquinaria de detenciones y deportaciones centrada en personas sin historial delictivo y en el proceso ha dividido familias, ha dejado desprovistos económicamente a los familiares que quedan atrás, incluidos niños ciudadanos, ha eliminado mano de obra en industrias centrales de nuestra economía como la agricultura, la construcción, restaurantes, hoteles, hospitales.
Una maquinaria cruel y violenta que sigue cobrando vidas en intervenciones y en unos centros de detención que reciben miles de millones de dólares pero no ofrecen ni alimentos, ni cuidados médicos adecuados, y donde los abusos y maltratos son la orden del día.
Pero no solo eso, su política migratoria se traduce en alzas de precios de bienes y servicios para los estadounidenses, mediante el impuesto de ICE.
Para completar el cuadro, su guerra en Irán disparó los precios del combustible y mientras despilfarra miles de millones en el conflicto armado y en su ejército de detenciones y deportaciones, reduce los beneficios de programas sociales como Medicaid y deja sin seguro médico a millones de estadounidenses.
El propio Trump ha creado una tormenta perfecta para que se concrete un cambio en noviembre, si los estadounidenses traducen su coraje y frustración en votos, y si, claro está, el presidente no se saca de la manga alguna “crisis” para intervenir en la elección.
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CHC Chair: ‘ICE Is Not Just Busting The Budget, It’s Wrecking Our Economy’
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Congressional Hispanic Caucus members joined America’s Voice to call for an end to the ICE Tax that’s making the lives of all working families more expensive’ The Trump administration’s mass purge of immigrant communities is inflicting violence and creating havoc – and ripping away essential workers and raising the costs of everyday necessities from groceries… Continue »
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Congressional Hispanic Caucus members joined America’s Voice to call for an end to the ICE Tax that’s making the lives of all working families more expensive’
The Trump administration’s mass purge of immigrant communities is inflicting violence and creating havoc – and ripping away essential workers and raising the costs of everyday necessities from groceries to housing – and American families are paying for it all, members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) said during a Capitol Hill event demanding an end to the ICE Tax.