Immigration raids shocked Kern’s county and now ACU requires alleged abuse

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Border patrol agents drilled tires, removed the truck people, threw people on the ground, and called farm workers “Mexican Dogs” during attacks not announced in Kern County in early January, according to a complaint filed today by the US Union for Civil Freedoms (ACLU).

The organization of civil liberties presented on Wednesday the case in the Federal Court, stating that the operation was illegal for “colorful people who seem to be agricultural workers or workers, regardless of their real immigration or individual circumstances.” The raids, he said, violated the defense of the fourth amendment to registers and unfulfilled seizures, including arrests without probable reason and arrests without reasonable suspicion.

The border patrol did not immediately respond to a request for comments.

Thehe raid for almost a week that took place in January In mostly the Latin neighborhoods of Bakersfield, it was the first major operation in California after the election of President Donald Trump, although it happened before it took over. Trump has promised to deport millions of people in the “biggest deportation program” in the history of the United States.

As he took over the position, his administration, according to the reports of the press, transferred by plane to Venezuelan immigrants to Guantanam Bay Many have been sent a Facilities in the jungle on the Darién plug.

In early January, border patrol agents based on the border between the United States and Mexico traveled more than 480 kilometers north to Bakersfield to make immigration raids. Gregory K. Bovino, the head of the border patrol in the center, who appeared as accused of the case called “Operation Return to the sender”.

“We take bad people and bad things at Bakersfield,” Bovino said on social networks. “We plan operations in other places (SIC) like Ash and especially the sacrament.”

The people who witnessed the attacks They said earlier on Calmatters That it seems that the agents of the Kern County are stopping farm workers and casual workers, classify workers according to their appearance and want their documents. The fourth amendment does not allow border patrol agents to arrest people without reasonable suspicion that the person is in the country illegal. The breed, ethnic origin or perceived occupation of a person may not justify a person’s arrest, ACL says in the request presented in the division of Freen from the Eastern County of California.

The raids caused panic and confusion in the community and had a paralyzing effect on the local business, which made workers move away from the fields, according to Antonio de Loera, director of communication of united farms and others. California farmers and leaders have warned that the mass deportations promised by Trump will affect food supplies in the country, which will lead to shortage and higher prices.

California provides more than one third of the country’s vegetables and almost three -quarters of their fruits and nuts.

According to ACLU’s complaint, border patrol agents were initially arrested about 200 people with the “illegal raid”. At that time, the agency announced that its employees had committed 78 arrests during the attacks. Of these, at least 40 were sent to Mexico after being pressured to accept the voluntary outcome, according to ACLU. According to the complaint, most have lived in the United States for years and have left behind families, communities, homes and livelihoods.

The agents approached a man, an operator to support licenses for 38 years, while he was out of a home depot with a group of workers on the day of January 7. When he tried to get out, an officer followed him, handcuffed him and arrested him, according to the complaint. The man has lived in Bakersfield for 12 years.

The next morning, the border patrol arrested a man working as a gardener and transported a trailer full of gardening. When the man refused to deliver the keys to his truck, the agent cut the tires, according to ACLU. The man is an American citizen.

When the passenger did not open the door immediately, Agent threatened to break the window. When the passenger removed the window and opened the door, the agent removed it from the truck, according to the complaint.

The agents arrested a woman that afternoon for no apparent reason. She showed the agents her valid driver’s license in California, but they ordered her to leave the car, threw her to the ground and arrested her, according to ACLU’s complaint. She is a legal permanent resident of the United States.

As he moved home after a day to work in the fields, a man who had lived in Kern County for 20 years was arrested. The agents already called him his passenger “Mexican Dogs”. When he told the agents that he had four young children, the agent replied that he did not care and that he “went to Mexico,” the complaint said.

Agents led people who arrested El Centro’s border patrol station, north of the border between the United States and Mexico, where they were held in frozen cells known as known as known as as HillerasS They are not allowed to access bedrooms, showers, hygiene products or enough food, according to ACLU. They were not allowed to call lawyers or relatives. The agents pressed them to sign forms of a “voluntary outcome”, allowing them to be expelled to Mexico.

Voluntary exit is a process in which certain people can be sent to be sent back to their sides of origin without having the long -term effects of deportation in their register.

Several of them are already in Mexical, Mexico, south of Calexiko, separated from their families, homes and communities. “They don’t know when they will see their families again,” the complaint said.

This article was originally published by CalmattersS