During the night of last Wednesday, June 11, hundreds of people took to the streets in three of the main cities of Texaswith the aim of supporting protests against migratory raids that the migration and customs control service (ICEfor its acronym in English) has done in the city of Los Angeles, California.
In the Texan cities of Austin and Dallasthe demonstrations continued until dusk and concluded in clashes with the Local Police, after US authorities qualified protests as “Illicit Assemblies”, as reported by various local media in the state of the Lonely star.
Within the capital of Texas, the protesters marched to the office local of the immigration and customs service, where the police and agents of the Texas Public Security Department (DPSfor its acronym in English) they tried to disperse them with pepper gas and rubber bullets, So several people were arrested in the place.
For its part, in the city of Dallasthe police began to disperse all the protesters around 10 pm on Wednesday, June 11 and the officers also launched pepper gas Against those who carried banners with messages such as: “No one is illegal in the USA” or “end to the president’s deportation policies Donald Trump”
New migratory operations in Texas
According to the American television network Univisión, as in May, when the operations focused on construction sites, on June Immigration and Customs Control Service agents arrived in surprise to several restaurants, butchers And even nudist clubs located in Texas, near the border with Mexico.
“The migratory agents suddenly arrived at the premises and entered the restaurant without asking him permission Nobody. When we tried to do something, it was too late because the officers were inside, ”he said Sheila Gómez, daughter of the owner of a Mexican food restaurant called The control, In the city of HarlingenTexas.
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As reported by Sheila, ICE agents “arrested all restaurant workers, including Owners”, That is, his mother and her stepfather, so he made the decision to close the premises. However, he decided before give a present all the food they already had prepared as a “form of protest“Against these raids.
“They took my mother, my stepfather, my brothers and friends who also worked in the family business,” added Gómez, who mentioned that ICE officers arrived at the scene without any search warrant, as had happened in another food business Latin American located in the city of San BenitoTexas.
“ICE agents told me they brought a search warrantbut it is not true; They had no order or came by a specific person. Despite that, migratory officers entered the place and took everyone, ”said Sheila, explained dismay For the situation that restaurants currently live Latinos In the United States.
Given the circumstances, and according to Univisión, several food stores located in southern Texas have chosen to close indefinitelyconsidering that everyone, or most of its workers are undocumented migrants, So attending work has become a risk higher and higher in the border state.