An explanatory report from the American Public Radio NPR broadcast a few days ago. In it, a Guatemalan immigrant living in the United States says that she went to a store in Tampa, Florida, with her daughter to look for a dress for the little girl’s fifteenth birthday party. Sellers are starting to show the worst of the stock. After becoming suspicious of the service, she whispered to her daughter: “Let’s get out of here now. They will call the police.”
The two left hurriedly, influenced by the feeling that the raid would happen soon. Without revealing her name, the migrant admitted to the broadcaster that living like this was a nightmare: she wants to return to Guatemala. Her husband, who has worked in the United States for 20 years, doesn’t think about it. The daughter, who has just reached high school, wants to know why there is so much fear in the country she calls home.
This family drama has intensified since Trump returned to the presidency eleven months ago. His hunt for “criminals,” a general reference to immigrants, has just reached Charlotte, North Carolina, another Democratic-controlled state. The matter is arrest. In Los Angeles there were 9 thousand. In Florida 7 thousand. In Chicago, 3,000. And in Washington, 6 thousand. And so on. These numbers fluctuate, but about 60,000 people have been arrested since January 2025, filling detention centers.
The Department of Homeland Security reports that 1.6 million immigrants recently deported themselves. Not by a miracle, but by the fear of being harassed on the streets, or at work, or leaving school, or being separated from the family, or ending up in a hellish prison in Guantanamo or El Salvador. The reality is that even among migrants who enjoy a more stable situation, the climate is characterized by insecurity.
The American Immigration Council report, which calls for fair treatment of those who decide or need to live in the USA, speaks to the human cost of Trump’s immigration policies and the disruption they are causing in the country.
One of the entity’s points of interest concerns the thousands of asylum seekers without any support. After all, what prompted a 29-year-old Afghan to shoot National Guard officers in Washington on Wednesday (26), as a beneficiary of a government protection program? Reclaiming this life story can be helpful.
But “illegal immigrants” will pay a heavy price, Trump says, unable to comprehend his generalizations. As if it wasn’t enough to have a border czar (Tom Homan) and a Homeland Security Secretary who equates immigrants with terrorists (Kristi Noem), he’s now glorifying a police chief named Gregory Bovino. The case is strange.
After being repressed in Los Angeles and Chicago, Bovino arrived in Charlotte looking like the president’s hero and MAGA idol. His men have already killed a Mexican and a Guatemalan who is not suspected of doing anything. However, he does not abandon the use of racial norms to target his targets. He told the court that the use of brute force in operations under his command was exemplary. He declares that he has made Los Angeles a safer place and that he will be present wherever duty calls.
This is the new poster for Trump’s anti-immigrant attack. Deep down, he is a broken man with his origins. The first cattle arrived in the United States in the 19th century from Italy. If not for the family road, the patrolman may not have achieved stardom.
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