Trump’s migration policy costs human lives: a dead man in Raid

In the state of California, a man, according to the authorities, was presumably died in escape from a raid by the US immigration authority ICE. During a raid in the city of Monrovia near Los Angeles, the man ran from the parking lot of a hardware store to a busy motorway, a representative of the city administration told the media. Day laborers often gather at the parking lot to look for occasional work.

The 40-year-old, who was recorded by a car, was taken to the hospital, said a spokesman for the motorway police. There he succumbed to his injuries a few hours later.

The city has not received any information from the immigration authority, said the city administration representative. The authority initially left an inquiry from the AFP news agency for the incident.

Hundreds of thousands of people live in Los Angeles without papers. Since Donald Trump returned to the White House, the city and its suburbs have been the focus of his strict action against migrants announced in the election campaign. Again and again there were raids and arrests by the immigration authority.

The raids, which take place primarily in hardware stores, car washes and other companies in which people are looking for work without papers, triggered massive protests. In response to this, Trump mobilized the national guard and soldiers in June – against the will of the California governor Gavin Newsom from the opposition Democrats.

In July, a federal court ordered the stop of the ICE patrols in several California districts. Previously, people from California and interest groups such as the Civil Rights Organization American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sued the US Ministry of Homeland for the arrests. Human rights groups argued that the raids apparently served to arrest people primarily because of their skin color, their language or place where they had gathered.