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In a wealthy Westlake immigrant in Los Angeles, the shops were empty Friday morning. The place to repair the computer was closed.
The gates were in front of check channels. One of the health clinics in the area where residents are often arranged for medical attention was open, but without receiving.
At a distance from the block, Park MacArt was still stirring with drug addicts and men with not cracking. Police arrested two by cuffs as the men stared at the distance.
Around Los Angeles, flower sellers gathering outside the forest lawn were missing, the buses were half empty, automatic were closed. The parking lots at home landfills and garden shops were suddenly noticeably empty.
This happens when the federal government, against the wishes of those who live in a community, exercises its distant authority and imposes a solution that Los Angeles do not want. Confrontations in a small area of the center have escalated after the arrival of the National Guard, and then of the active US Marines.
And the big, productive and now is very afraid of a community of undocumented immigrants in Los Angeles has inserted himself into the shadows.
There are many misconceptions for immigrants in Los Angeles, but not more decorative than the rock – so popular with the Trump administration representatives – that those immigrants who have arrived without documents, somehow live apart from the rest of the city.
The role of these immigrants in the local economy is widely misunderstood and deliberately missed. Undunted immigrants do not work outside the bigger economy; They are integrated into it, just as they are in any other aspect of life in California.
When they are removed or move to stay home, the effects touch everyone.
“The impact on the economy is wider,” says Saba Wahid, director of the UCLA Labor Center. “They (the federal authorities) eradicate and interfere with Los Angeles’s daily routine.
“You take away some of our workforce. It hurts LA broader.”
This is partly because of the narrow integration of illegal immigrants into the broader economy, not just Los Angeles. In California, underdeveloped workers make up about a quarter of all workers in agriculture and construction workers.
When Arizona adopted anti-immigrant laws in the early 2000s, Many undocumented inhabitants, maybe 40%, leftS The economy was injured. And unemployment for low -skilled white men increased, not reduced.
This makes the perfect meaning for all except with closed or firmly heartfelt.
Whether legal or illegally here are working men and women. When they are paid, they spend this money on clothes and places to live, toys for their children, food and things in life. These costs go into the broader economy, supporting the business owned and managed by legal residents.
Restaurants and shops that depend on business on those in the country are illegally suffering with these immigrants.
Trump’s supporters, starting with the president’s piercing emissary, Stephen Miller, love to oppose the tears of crocodiles for illegal immigrants, who suggest that they are an exploited class of workers, while calling them a sinister criminal threat.
And although it is certainly true that some undocumented residents are paid lower salaries than citizens, many have not been victims, but have been working comfortably for years. In fact, nearly 80% of those who live illegally in this country have been working here for more than a decade.
Miller and his fellow travelers suggest that all this is a resistance to the economy, burdensome. But this is also false.
In addition to the economic activity they generate, the underwritten workers pay taxes – using taxpayers’ identification numbers, many pay federal income taxes. Others share homes, often with documented family members and help pay ownership taxes.
Many of these workers have drawn money from social security from their salaries, but since they use fake social security numbers, they never receive the benefits at the other end – which means they help to support this system for others.
And, of course, they pay taxes on sales, which are particularly vital to local authorities.
Undousmated workers in California give $ 23 billion a year in federal, state and local taxesS Their direct pay only 5% of the country’s economy, a new survey shows.
Pulling them out of the workforce, or sending them outside the country, or pursuing them indoors to avoid detection, it hurts not only them. It hurts in Los Angeles.
In fact, if the deportment enthusiasts were most willing, it would harm the whole country.
One survey concluded that if the government manages to deport any person currently in the country illegally, it will lead to a 1.4% decrease in gross domestic product in the first year, with losses increasing afterwards. The economy would throw more than $ 5 trillionS
These are studies. And then there is life in the city.
Los Angeles, like any city, would welcome the removal of dangerous people. But this is not what is grabbed. Immigrants in the country illegally tend to Be more resistant to the law Once here than native Americans.
With Trump, more than 70% of those seized in these destructive raids, do not have a criminal record at all and many others have only insignificant traffic or other crimes. All that has been said, About 8% of those grabbed by ice They have have a serious criminal history in recent months.
This means that more than 9 out of 10 do not give evidence of a threat. Removing them separates families, devastates business and damages the bigger economy – without the benefit of the safety of this community.
You do not hit criminals by attacking Home Depot car washes and parking lots. Washington may not get this – or it may not be interested. But Los Angeles does it.
If those behind the last immigration raids imagined that they were killing an unwanted, detached community of the rest of Los Angeles, they were poorly calculated. Instead, this region demonstrates determination and solidarity with a threat that is not only economic but also cultural.
Undunted California workers contribute by $ 23 billion a year in federal, state and local taxes. Only their direct pay amounts to 5% of the country’s economy.
Based on a report from the Bay Council Economic Institute and the University of California, Merced
Churches with large immigrant congregations advise their parishioners to stay home rather than expose themselves to ice. Hotels and businesses fly Mexican flags in solidarity with their workers.
Activists and everyday people refuse to cooperate when masking agents that refuse to provide identification, require it to others, often just because of the color of their skin.
City of Pasadena, hardly a hot beds of radicalism, Canceled summer swimming programs and parks Last weekend for fear that the ice will use them to hit suspects.
These actions prove a point: these immigrants, no matter how much they have arrived or any of their legal status, are an integral part of the economy of this region and its sense of self.
These are our neighbors, our friends, friends of our children, our colleagues. Forcible removal is bad for them, of course. It is also bad for the rest of us.