Some US businesses close in a 'day without immigrants.' But many say they can't lose income

THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION HAS LAUNCHED A RAPID PACED IMMIGRATION CRACKDOWN. DENVER, CHICAGO, NEW YORK, MIAMI THE LIST OF CITIES WHERE FEDERAL AGENTS ARE CARRYING OUT RAIDS GROWS NEARLY EVERY DAY. THE IMAGES OF LAW ENFORCEMENT AND BODY ARMOR ESCORTING HANDCUFFED PEOPLE, FLOODING SOCIAL MEDIA. BUT WHAT바카라 게임 웹사이트�S PERHAPS MOST CONSEQUENTIAL IS LANGUAGE IN THE ADMINISTRATION바카라 게임 웹사이트�S EXECUTIVE ORDERS. IT바카라 게임 웹사이트�S VERY INTENTIONAL USE OF SPECIFIC WORDS THAT CARRY GREAT POWER AND AUTHORITY FOR THE PRESIDENT. ERNESTO CASTANEDA IS THE DIRECTOR OF THE CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN AND LATINO STUDIES AT AMERICAN UNIVERSITY. IT바카라 게임 웹사이트�S SO NICE TO HAVE YOU BACK, SIR. THANK YOU SO MUCH, SOLEDAD. WHEN YOU LOOK SPECIFICALLY AT THE EXECUTIVE ORDERS PROTECTING THE UNITED STATES FROM FOREIGN TERRORISTS AND OTHER NATIONAL SECURITY AND PUBLIC SAFETY THREATS, WHAT바카라 게임 웹사이트�S THE IMPACT OF THE WORD TERROR AND TERRORIST? SO TERRORISM IS SOMETHING THAT WE KNOW BY EXPERIENCE. WE KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS VERY WELL. BUT THAT IS NOT WHAT ORGANIZED CRIME BASED IN IN MEXICO AND LATIN AMERICA ARE DOING. PEOPLE DO LOSE THEIR LIVES. BUT THE AIM OF THE ORGANIZED CRIME IS NOT TO TAKE OVER ANY ONE GOVERNMENT HERE OR THERE. SO THEREFORE IT바카라 게임 웹사이트�S A MISNOMER TO CALL THIS HORRIBLE ORGANIZATIONS TO CALL THEM TERRORISTS. BUT FOR PEOPLE ALREADY HERE WITH THIS DESIGNATION OF PEOPLE AS COMING OR COMING FROM PLACES WHERE THERE바카라 게임 웹사이트�S TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS, THEN IT바카라 게임 웹사이트�S EASIER TO DETAIN, TO STOP, TO IMPRISON AND TO DEPORT PEOPLE WITHOUT THE REGULAR DUE PROCESS THAT EVEN FOREIGNERS ARE ENTITLED TO. SO THIS MAKES THESE MASS DEPORTATIONS THAT HE WANTS TO DO SO MUCH EASIER TO CARRY OUT IN THIS NEW LEGAL FRAMEWORK. EXPLAIN TO ME WHAT THE DUE PROCESS WAS BEFORE THESE EXECUTIVE ORDERS. PEOPLE THAT HAVE LIVED IN THE US FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS, EVEN WITHOUT UNDOCUMENTED STATUS, THEY CANNOT JUST BE A GRAB AND DEPORTED. THEY HAVE THE RIGHT TO GO TO IMMIGRATION COURT TO PRESENT THE CASE. NOT THAT THEY바카라 게임 웹사이트�RE GOING TO WIN IT. MOST OF THE TIME THEY ARE DEPORTED ANYWAY, BUT THERE IS A SYSTEM OF LAWS THAT REGULATES HOW DEPORTATIONS HAPPEN. SO THAT IS WHAT TRUMP IS LOOKING TO DO AWAY WITH, WITH THESE EXECUTIVE ORDERS THAT TREAT THEM NOW AS ENEMY COMBATANTS SO THAT THEY CAN BE DEPORTED MUCH FASTER. THE OTHER WORD THAT I HAVE FOUND INTERESTING IS INVASION. WHY DOES FRAMING THIS AS AN INVASION IN A WAY, CHANGE THE IMPACT AND THE IMPORT OF THESE EXECUTIVE ORDERS, BECAUSE HE SAYS THERE바카라 게임 웹사이트�S AN INVASION NOW, HE CAN SAY THAT THERE바카라 게임 웹사이트�S A STATE OF EMERGENCY AND DEPLOY ACTIVE TROOPS TO THE US-MEXICO BORDER. AND NOW USING AIRPLANES FROM THE MILITARY FOR REMOVALS AND DEPORTATIONS. BUT AGAIN, THIS IS NOT TRUE. ASYLUM SEEKERS, IMMIGRANTS, UNACCOMPANIED MINORS ARRIVING AT THE US-MEXICO BORDER, FOR EXAMPLE, THEY DO NOT COME BEARING ARMS. THEY ARE NOT HERE TO TAKE OVER A TERRITORY AND DECLARE INDEPENDENCE. SO AGAIN, IT바카라 게임 웹사이트�S A MISNOMER. BUT AGAIN, IT OPENS ALL THESE AVENUES FOR DONALD TRUMP TO USE. FOR EXAMPLE, BUDGET FROM THE PENTAGON, FROM DEFENSE TO ENGAGE IN IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT. WHAT ARE YOUR PREDICTIONS ABOUT WHERE THIS GOES? TRUMP ALSO INVOKED THE ALIEN ENEMIES ACT OF 1798, WHICH SAYS THAT DURING WARTIME, ONLY THE US THEN HAS THE RIGHT TO DETAIN AND IMPRISON AND DEPORT THE FOREIGN BORN. BUT HE HAS NOT FORMALLY DECLARED WAR ON ANY OTHER NATION. SO WE ARE NOT AT WAR TIME. SO HE SHOULDN바카라 게임 웹사이트�T BE ABLE TO DO THIS. BUT HE바카라 게임 웹사이트�S ALREADY USING THE LANGUAGE OF WAR AND SHOWING THE IMAGES OF THE US BEING AT WAR. HE바카라 게임 웹사이트�S TRYING TO INVOKE THE FEELING THAT WE HAD AFTER NINE OVER 11 WHEN WE WERE ATTACKED, AND THAT THERE WAS A RALLY AROUND THE FLAG AND WHERE THE MILITARY PLAYED AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN SOCIETY. HE바카라 게임 웹사이트�S TRYING TO GO TO GO BACK TO THAT, TO GARNER SUPPORT FOR HIS CAUSE. BUT WE ARE LIVING IN A DIFFERENT REALITY TODAY. EARNESTO CASTANEDA IS THE DIRECTOR OF THE CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN AND LATINO STUDIES AT AMERICAN UNIVERSITY. TH

Several businesses from day cares to grocery stores and hair salons closed Monday across the U.S. in a loosely organized day of protest against President Donald Trump's immigration policies.Related video above: Breaking down the language in President Trump바카라 게임 웹사이트�s immigration policiesBut participation in the "day without immigrants" faced headwinds from employees and business owners who said they need the income 바카라 게임 웹사이트� especially as rumors of widespread raids, often false, are leaving many migrant communities afraid to venture outside, affecting even some schools. Monday's event also came on the heels of street protests Sunday in California and elsewhere.Noel Xavier, organizing director for the North Atlantic States Regional Council of Carpenters, said that while it's important to remind the country of the value migrant workers bring to the communities they toil in, many workers couldn't afford to take a day off."If I don't go to work today, that's one day less that I have, you know, to be able to pay for my next rent," Xavier said of the prevailing sentiment among the workers he organizes. "I didn't see this big rallying around being able to do that, or having the luxury to be able to do that."Jaime di Paulo, president of the Illinois Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, noted that small restaurants and retailers in Chicago's biggest Latino neighborhoods closed, but most major employers as well as those in construction and other industries were operating normally."This is only hurting our own community," he said.Andrea Toro decided to close her hair salon in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood. She added that many of her clients are teachers and have seen children missing school since Trump took office last month because they fear it may not be safe to go. In Chicago, as in San Diego, school districts said some students and families were participating in Monday's protest."If we don't have immigrants, we don't have anything work around here," said Toro, who is from Puerto Rico. "If we're mute, we're in silence, then they're going to do whatever they want."El Burrito Mercado, which boomed from a small Latino market in the 1970s to one of the most widely recognized restaurant, catering and grocery businesses in St. Paul, Minnesota, shut for the whole day in 2017 바카라 게임 웹사이트� when the latest major such event was held at the beginning of the first Trump administration.But on Monday, it stayed open for a few hours with a skeleton crew, said co-owner Milissa Silva.Her parents emigrated from Mexico, and most of the 90 employees have Mexican roots. But many staffers expressed concern about losing a work day and about depriving people in the neighborhood of access to groceries.Similarly, the Spanish-immersion day care provider Tierra Encantada kept its 14 locations open. But many parents decided to keep their children home Monday in solidarity with the mostly first and second-generation immigrant workforce, said CEO Kristen Denzer.Families 바카라 게임 웹사이트� most of them not immigrants 바카라 게임 웹사이트� pulled some 450 children from day care and preschool, about 70% of those enrolled in Minnesota alone, where most of the organization's centers are, Denzer said. Several staffers who had been on the fence decided to take the day after the show of support.In Utah, several Latino-owned stores, restaurants and supermarkets closed their doors."The movement today, it's more about being compassionate," said state Sen. Luz Escamilla, a Democrat and Senate minority leader. "A lot of companies and communities are coming together in the state just to raise awareness of how much this has created a fear."Asked about the day of protest at his Monday media availability, Utah Senate President Stuart Adams, a Republican, defended Trump's immigration policies and said law-abiding immigrants should have nothing to worry about."The only people that are being talked about being deported (are) those that are criminals, those that are on probation, those bad people who have committed difficult crimes," Adams said.While immigration enforcement officers continue to target deportation migrants considered public safety and national security threats, a big change from the Biden administration is that officers can now arrest people without legal status if they run across them during operations.___Dell'Orto reported from Minneapolis and Perez Winder from Chicago. Contributing to this story were AP reporters Cedar Attanasio in New York, Hannah Schoenbaum in Salt Lake City and Julie Watson in San Diego.

Several businesses from day cares to grocery stores and hair salons closed Monday across the U.S. in a loosely organized day of protest against President Donald Trump's immigration policies.

Related video above: Breaking down the language in President Trump바카라 게임 웹사이트�s immigration policies

But participation in the "day without immigrants" faced headwinds from employees and business owners who said they need the income 바카라 게임 웹사이트� especially as rumors of widespread raids, often false, are leaving many migrant communities afraid to venture outside, affecting even some schools. Monday's event also came on the heels of street protests Sunday in California and elsewhere.

Noel Xavier, organizing director for the North Atlantic States Regional Council of Carpenters, said that while it's important to remind the country of the value migrant workers bring to the communities they toil in, many workers couldn't afford to take a day off.

"If I don't go to work today, that's one day less that I have, you know, to be able to pay for my next rent," Xavier said of the prevailing sentiment among the workers he organizes. "I didn't see this big rallying around being able to do that, or having the luxury to be able to do that."

Jaime di Paulo, president of the Illinois Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, noted that small restaurants and retailers in Chicago's biggest Latino neighborhoods closed, but most major employers as well as those in construction and other industries were operating normally.

"This is only hurting our own community," he said.

Andrea Toro decided to close her hair salon in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood. She added that many of her clients are teachers and have seen children missing school since Trump took office last month because they fear it may not be safe to go. In Chicago, as in San Diego, school districts said some students and families were participating in Monday's protest.

"If we don't have immigrants, we don't have anything work around here," said Toro, who is from Puerto Rico. "If we're mute, we're in silence, then they're going to do whatever they want."

El Burrito Mercado, which boomed from a small Latino market in the 1970s to one of the most widely recognized restaurant, catering and grocery businesses in St. Paul, Minnesota, shut for the whole day in 2017 바카라 게임 웹사이트� when the latest major such event was held at the beginning of the first Trump administration.

But on Monday, it stayed open for a few hours with a skeleton crew, said co-owner Milissa Silva.

Her parents emigrated from Mexico, and most of the 90 employees have Mexican roots. But many staffers expressed concern about losing a work day and about depriving people in the neighborhood of access to groceries.

Similarly, the Spanish-immersion day care provider Tierra Encantada kept its 14 locations open. But many parents decided to keep their children home Monday in solidarity with the mostly first and second-generation immigrant workforce, said CEO Kristen Denzer.

Families 바카라 게임 웹사이트� most of them not immigrants 바카라 게임 웹사이트� pulled some 450 children from day care and preschool, about 70% of those enrolled in Minnesota alone, where most of the organization's centers are, Denzer said. Several staffers who had been on the fence decided to take the day after the show of support.

In Utah, several Latino-owned stores, restaurants and supermarkets closed their doors.

"The movement today, it's more about being compassionate," said state Sen. Luz Escamilla, a Democrat and Senate minority leader. "A lot of companies and communities are coming together in the state just to raise awareness of how much this has created a fear."

Asked about the day of protest at his Monday media availability, Utah Senate President Stuart Adams, a Republican, defended Trump's immigration policies and said law-abiding immigrants should have nothing to worry about.

"The only people that are being talked about being deported (are) those that are criminals, those that are on probation, those bad people who have committed difficult crimes," Adams said.

While immigration enforcement officers continue to target deportation migrants considered public safety and national security threats, a big change from the Biden administration is that officers can now arrest people without legal status if they run across them during operations.

___

Dell'Orto reported from Minneapolis and Perez Winder from Chicago. Contributing to this story were AP reporters Cedar Attanasio in New York, Hannah Schoenbaum in Salt Lake City and Julie Watson in San Diego.

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