“My father was arrested on Friday while I was having coffee. We still don’t know why, because I didn’t even have deportation order. They entered the cafeteria where they were and took it,” his son, explains to El Mundo his son, Rodrigo visibly nervous and with a great Mexican flag in hand. A few hours later, his father, Delfino Aguilar Martínez51 years, became part of a statement of the Customs Immigration and Control Service (ICE) where it was listed to the “worst of the worst of undocumented criminals” arrested since Friday by immigration agents in immigration agents Los Angeles the same man whom his son describes as a peaceful person who was taking care of his grandson every day.
Aguilar, 23, is desperate. He knows that his father is held in “a cold and blanket” in the same federal prison in the center of Los Angeles where a pitched battle between protesters and ICE agents was mounted on Friday afternoon and that, in the end, he ended up causing the unusual and abrupt decision of the president Donald Trump to send 2,000 soldiers of the National guard to southern California, without an express request from the governor of that state, as indicated by the protocol in emergency situations.
The anger, anger, frustration and impotence led him to demonstrate Sunday afternoon against Trump’s mass deportation policy. He, a friend and a multitude of thousands of people gathered in the heart of the city to express their fear and concern about the prevailing situation.
It was a peaceful demonstration in general during the afternoon, although various incidents such as the burning of several vehicles – three cars of Waymothe Company of Autonomous Vehicles of Google – some arrests (at least 10) and denunciations of aggressions to protesters by the Los Angeles Police, which resorted to the use of tear gas and signs of fogueo in the most tense moments. At nightfall, a group of radicals set fire to a container when most protesters had already retired from the area.
For the rest, the appointment was a rain of posters attacking Trump and ICE, Mexican flags, Salvadorans, Venezuelan, Americans and Palestineasking for the end of the Israeli siege to the Gaza Strip, families with children, many young people and activists remembering the Washington government that no human being is illegal.
After these new clashes, which already add three days, the Los Angeles Police have banned any demonstration in the city center. “An illegal meeting has been declared in the area of the Los Angeles Civic Center. Those who have mobile S phones in the Civic Center area have received the alert,” the security body has published in X.
To Constance Squire an Orange County professor, it was a moral obligation to join protests. “I am a white woman, with blue eyes. I am exactly the kind of person who has to be here, to use my white privilege to help other people of color,” he explained to El Mundo. “Look at what kind of people they are taking. All this is wrong, it is immoral. I really fear our democracy and for their replacement by an autocratic and authoritarian model. Trump It is not shame and is not going to stop. “
To YESENIA AND ANILADY LINARES two sisters of the angels of Mexican origin, the entire stir of the last days is more than personal. His parents arrived in the US without papers and gave everything to give their six children a better life. “They did a lot to be in the US. They raped my mother on the way to get here,” Anilady shares. “We had to be present.”
“It is a terrible trauma when they separate families and that is why it is very important to use our voices to denounce all this. We are tired of living the same trauma over and over again,” says Yesenia, 29, with a broken voice. “There is no excuse to deport good and hardworking people. It’s just an excuse to apply their racist policies.”
A few meters below, Ana María Rodríguez It was planted in the median of a busy avenue to denounce, completely naked and with two posters in his hand, “the sad situation we are living.” “This is my peaceful way to protest instead of resorting to violence,” he argued. “You can do much more with love and silence than with shouts and violence.”
The day was also a constant exchange of messages between the Democratic bench and the government. Trump covered himself in the alleged incompetence of the governor of California, Gavin Newsom to justify the shipment of the National Guard in Los Angeles, and Newsom described the Republican’s decision as “serious violation of the sovereignty of the State” and demanded its revocation.
On Monday, the Californian authorities filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration for the deployment of the National Guard in Los Angeles, an expected measure after Newsom’s speech, firm in their opposition to the current government. A long and crowded confrontation between Washington and Sacramento, without happy ending.