In ‘Operation Trojan Horse’, masked officers in unmarked vehicle arrest 16 people, despite court order halting raids

US border patrol agents carried out a raid outside a Home Depot in Los Angeles on Wednesday, with officers jumping out of an unmarked rental truck and chasing and arresting more than a dozen people.

Videos of the operation, and federal officials’ statements boasting about the detentions, have raised questions about whether the US government was complying with a federal court order halting indiscriminate raids in the region due to evidence of racial profiling. That ruling, upheld last week by an appeals court, followed reports of Latino US citizens getting swept up in LA raids and accounts of undocumented people being targeted based on their appearance and whether they spoke Spanish.

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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Not everyone has the means to just abandon their job and their community and move somewhere else. Certainly not everyone can just move to a different country. Even if you have the means and the ability to enter the other country, if you try to do so there's a good chance ICE will grab you at the border. And if you move inside the USA there's a good chance the move will bring you to the attention of the authorities.