Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Ala.), On the left, hosted on Friday a panel about immigration affecting the black community during the Black Caucus Foundation legislative conference in Washington, also on the panel from left to right: Haddy Gassama, Greg Jackson and Astou Thirane. (Photo of William J. Ford/Maryland Matters)
For those who think that the immigration policy of Trump’s administration is only attacking the Latin communities, a democratic US representative Maxwell Frost would like to straighten you.
Maxwell said on Friday that thousands of black people who like his Black and Latin origin experience fear, like American immigration and enforcement of customs (ICE), and state and local law enforcement agencies arrest people, regardless of their legal immigration status.
“I see it very common in my community from Orlando in Florida, with our Haitian community, which is attacked, as well as with black Latinos who are attacked,” said Frost during a discussion at the legislative conference of the Black Caucus Congress Foundation in Washington, DC
The discussion took place on the day when the curator of Public Schools of Des Moines Ian Roberts, Whoever is held was detained. The school district officials said that they had no information about why he was detained.
Frost questioned the need for ice.
“The fact is that we have other federal law enforcement agencies that will help make sure we have an ordered and humanitarian immigration process at federal level,” he said. “Creating a whole agency that literally went to our communities, and now massively and terrorize our people, I think it is not needed.”
President Donald Trump authorized the soldiers of the National Guard to take over the duties of law enforcement agencies in Washington and sent them to cities run by black democratic mayors, including Los Angeles and Memphis, while weighing or sending the army to Baltimore, Chicago and New Orleans.
Some Republican Governors, such as Patrick Morrisey from West Virginia and Mike Dewine from Ohio, quickly sent their units of the National Guard to DC, while the Republican Governor Bill Lee from Tennessee placed soldiers in Memphis, the second largest city, with the assist of Trump’s order.
Haddy Gassama, a senior policy advisor in ACLU, said that people must know the rules in their states.
Gassama said that local and state agencies can participate in contracts with ICE 287G, enabling a federal agency to transfer some state tasks and local law enforcement officers, such as performing orders in prisons and identify and start proceedings against persons arrested by local law enforcement agencies.
“Trump’s administration said that their goal is only this year, stopping and potentially deporting to 100,000 immigrants. They are good on the road to this goal,” said Gassama. “Currently, there are over 60,000 immigrants in the detention. It is almost inverted on his head, where he uses immigration policy to expand the mass imprisonment system.”
Panelists also called on the participants of the conference to vote.
“If you are not voting, you do not gap the heritage of people who sacrificed themselves, paid their lives so that we have the opportunity to participate [a] Democracy they did not do, “said former US prosecutor Eric Holder during the discussion on Friday morning with Terri Sewell (D-Ala.)
“This is not a contactless sport,” said Holder, chairman of the National Committee for Democratic Redistriction. “We just can’t watch TV and shout on Fox News or something, nor agree with MSNBC, [or] whatever. You have to do more. I have to get engaged. “
This report was updated on Saturday, September 27, to explain the quote from Eric Holder.
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