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They're taking to the streets all over the country
on this July 17th. Here in New York there
are thousands. You believe your
president is leading America into authoritarianism
and are protesting against Donald Trump's deportation campaign and the harsh
crackdown on immigrants .
We will not be silenced
. We must
rebel against what is happening in our country .
We are in the midst of a coordinated
attempt to transform America into an authoritarian, even
Even citizens and people who have
come to our country legally are being
arrested and disappearing. This should
n't be happening here, but it's happening and
it has to end.
There are large and small protests in
more than 1,400 cities and towns. This time
on a Thursday evening.
Millions come to action days on weekends. Upset by the sometimes
brutal images of arrests
by the immigration authorities.
Hunting scenes in the field without concrete
arrest warrants. Finding undocumented migrants
at any cost. A 16-year-old girl was
wrestled to the ground because she
refused to allow her mother to be
arrested and deported.
Donald Trump also sees this as a
threat. Maybe she doesn't have a residence permit.
a residence permit.
Masked federal agents first
arrest, then investigate
America these days. A
Christian couple from Iran. He is
The couple has social insurance. You
have a work permit and no
criminal background.
But Donald Trump wants, indeed needs,
success. These cages should also be
filled with migrants.
He has promised one million deportations per year
. The president in the new
detention camp in the heart of the
Florida Everglades. The alligators and snakes
in the surrounding symphonies are intended to
Very soon we will have the
most threatening, the most evil
people on the planet here. We are
surrounded by miles of native Turkish
swampland and the only way out
This is how the Department of Homeland Security celebrated
the alligator Alcatras.
3000 arrests daily. Statewide,
Secretary Christie Noem is said to have delivered
so far, but her agents are only catching
1,100 per day.
And slowly the resistance grows:
people confront the unmarked
vehicles of the persecutors. They
demand that they show identification and
arrest warrants or court orders.
orders.
In cases like this, there are doubts as to whether
the men wearing much too
small protective vests are actually officers . The
. The
courage of a woman filming them
Joshua Aon has developed an app that
alerts people when
immigration agents are spotted.
Aonist Jew, the Ratzien remind him of
Nazi Germany.
We see history
repeating itself and I wanted to do something about it .
.
He wants the number of arrests. So far, the number has
risen dramatically to around 100,000 with billions of dollars
and thousands of new agents.
They have free rein
to break any resistance. This is precisely what is causing fear
and unrest in Calvas City, a
One nation under God, that is what it says on the
flag with which the city council meeting begins.
begins.
In view of Eis's brutal actions, the people here fear
for their own safety and that of their
immigrant fellow citizens. They want to
ensure that their Calv City does not cooperate in
any way with government authorities
in their hunt for immigrants.
immigrants.
It's about torturing,
hunting, and bagging people to celebrate it on television
and sell T-shirts. We
must see through the lies,
organize ourselves, protect each other, and make
mass deportation socially
Trump's masked Gestapo henchmen are
kidnapping people who live and
work here. We are told they are taking them
to South Sudan or to the Everglades
Alligator Alcatrust. Trump finds this
funny. He makes jokes about it. Recently,
they kidnapped a man who had been selling
ice cream in our town for 20 years .
It's a dilemma for those
in charge here. They are legally
obligated to help
enforce the president’s decrees.
But if Eis is acting without a court
order, thus
violating the law, should the local
police confront the agents ? This
is about justifying
a complete police state with the
idea that there is no longer any difference
between a criminal and
an immigrant, a black person or a
Latino person. They want to take control of the entire city
. I see this as a
It's a constant bombardment
of horror, but it makes us
stronger. We will get through this and
we will not give up, especially not when it
Broad daylight McApark in the middle of Los
Angeles. Heavily armed men move onto
armored vehicles.
A helicopter is circling. The cavalry is coming.
coming.
They form up and advance. The
children who were previously playing football here
were just
brought to safety by their supervisors. Images from a surveillance camera.
surveillance camera.
The mayor of Los Angeles is
there when they have to leave
The people here are angry about the
Another example of the cowardice
of the federal agents who came here to
terrorize us and take pictures.
There are agents from the Department of Homeland Security, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency, the
Homeland Security, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency, the
Border Patrol, and
National Guard troops in a park that is
supposedly a crime hotspot
. The neighborhood is mainly populated by
Latinos. Her representative on the city council
We no longer live in a
democracy, but under occupation and
authoritarianism. We are just the
test run. What happens in McApsiert will
soon happen to you too: 140 billion dollars
more money for ice cream. What do you think it's for?
What happens in our neighborhood will
There were no arrests as usual at
a Ratia. So was it actually a
test run, part of a larger plan?
A confidential briefing for the
security forces reveals this.
Operation Excalibur McAr Park is
about enforcing the law
in urban areas while preserving
public safety and
demonstrating the reach and presence of
the federal government.
It was probably a demonstration of power and
a model for use throughout the country.
The federal government will not leave LA. We do
n't work for Mayor B.
We'll stay here until our
mission is accomplished, and you better get used to it
, because things will be normal very soon .
I won't get used to it. I
am the elected mayor of this
city, which will not
accept a federal takeover. Either you believe in
Some here see this as a harbinger
of the imposition of martial law in the
fight against immigration and crime
in LA, Chicago, New York, Washington
, and everywhere Donald Trump commands it.
In fact, the president now has a
free hand. On Independence Day,
he signed what he calls the
Big Beautiful Bill. The Republican
majority in Congress is allowing him to
borrow trillions of dollars for
tax cuts, for the military, but also
$140 billion for border and
homeland security. Critics fear that Trump could
develop ICE into his paramilitary force.
Trump's man for the rough stuff is his
so-called border guard Tom Homan, who considers everyone
who crossed the border illegally to be
criminals. They are potential
robbers and murderers.
With more agents, we can take
more bad people out of circulation every day.
Every day we arrest threats to
national security. Who the hell
can be against that?
Trump advisor Steven Miller is threatening
mayors and police chiefs with
jail if they do not cooperate.
This government will
enforce immigration policies in every city, and anyone who fails to comply with
the laws and dictates of this country
will face appropriate legal
consequences. You will see
that more and more resources are being
put into mass deportation.
Every day, significantly more
illegal aliens are arrested and removed from the country.
The deportation squads on behalf of the
President in action at a
cannabis farm in Camarillo, California.
Masked and heavily armed
National Guardsmen and ice agents are blocking
the access routes.
Word of the operation quickly spreads. People come
because they are worried about their relatives who
work on the farm. Then the
federal officials invade the warehouses and
the fields and round up the workers
. Among them are many with
valid work and
residence permits. It is not a
targeted search for criminals. Eis has
no specific arrest warrants.
Apparently, the idea is to randomly
find people who might be deported.
deported.
Everyone is taken away, an
arbitrary measure, as one farm manager says.
Did they want to find specific people?
No, you believe arbitrariness? Yes, it was
In front of the farm, some
armed men are blocking the way for the angry people
who are blocking the streets with their cars .
.
The crowd is growing.
Family members, neighbors,
union activists, they do
not want to tolerate this arbitrariness. The
agents' gas masks
hint at what is about to happen.
A young woman holds a leaf blower in her
hands. The officials are
insulted, the slogans are getting harsher.
When the protesters
get too close to the security forces,
they use tear gas.
The young woman with the leaf blower is
Among those fleeing are also young people.
Melissa says she threw a grenade under the car. You have my brother. He was
arrested on the farm.
Shortly after, at the barrier,
Democratic Congressman Salut
Kabachal tries to get to the farm to
verify the legality of the operation. But even the
elected representative is not allowed to get through.
This is overkill. Military on our streets,
streets,
Homeland Security agents disguised as soldiers
. This is staged theater
Not all protesters remain
peaceful in the tear gas fog. The anger is escalating.
escalating.
Some throw objects.
He then even pulls out a gun and
fires in the direction of the officers. The FBI
is looking for him. A $000 reward is
After several hours, the
federal authorities' deportation squads
leave with the detainees.
Among them, as it
turns out later, there are no criminals or
serious offenders. But the agents
should create one thing above all: fear.
They scare people. They are
afraid to go shopping, do their laundry
, or take a walk.
It shouldn't be like that.
The fear is having an effect. Even in
Old Town Los Angeles,
it is usually teeming with people,
locals and tourists.
Only a few shops are open on the famous Olvera Street
. Most of the stalls are
closed because the sellers are mostly
afraid of Latinos, even if they
are completely legal in the country and
Here in Juanita's Café, the food is still sizzling
in the pan. Edward Floris feels
relatively safe.
His family has been running the
snack bar for a total of 81 years, now in its third generation.
Now his business is fighting for survival.
The rates are a disaster for
all of Los Angeles and Olvera Street. There
is a high density of Latinos,
Mexicanos and Chicanos. They are
afraid, they don't come here.
Our customer base has plummeted by 80 to 90%,
and my neighbors here aren't opening their
stores anymore because ice cream
is taking even US citizens with these rates.
That's why they are afraid.
Then you have shame.
Some don't want their lives to be controlled by ice
. The threat makes
them come together even closer. [Music]
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Almost every night people come here
to Plaza Mariaci to dance.
Some posters say Chinga Lamigra.
[ __ ], immigration authorities.
Magdalena is there with photos of her family
. Also that of her nephew Pablo,
who was taken away during a ratia on June 5th .
It's delicate for me to protest,
but I have the right to raise my voice
, you know, even if I'm afraid
. But we didn't do anything wrong
. We have been working in this country for 22 years .
Next door is the tent of Summer of Resistance,
Resistance,
organized by the trade unions.
Martin Manteka and his colleagues
point out how indispensable
immigrants are in agriculture,
the hotel and restaurant industry and in construction.
construction.
They educate people about their rights
and recruit volunteers.
They will also deliver food donations to
families who no
longer dare to go out on the streets for fear of ice.
This is how we resist. We
inform ourselves and the public
about our rights. Reclaim the
public space that ice occupied
. We make art, music,
dance, paintings.
To make it clear to people, we are
not hiding. We
continue to fight. We exercise our right to
freedom of expression. We have the right
right
They counter the terror that ice agents usually spread arbitrarily with
creative, colorful protest.
They may just be a few cardboard butterflies
. For those affected, they are
symbols of hope and solidarity.
And the most important thing to them is that their
resistance remains peaceful. They reject
We don't fight with guns against ice,
homeland security, sheriffs,
police, army, National Guard Marines.
We have
learned from civil rights leaders like Martin
Lufer King and labor leaders like
Caesar Schaves that peaceful,
organized protest is the best way to
We are allowed to film a training session for nonviolent
protest at the Los Angeles Convention Center. 1,400 people
came, much more than the
organizers expected. They all
want to learn how to help their
families, neighbors, and friends when
when
Eis's deportation squads appear in
neighborhoods, restaurants, hardware stores,
One scenario is that ice
enters workplaces and
violates fundamental rights. We want
everyone to be prepared if officers
use physical force.
Another scenario takes place at a
demonstration where chaos breaks out.
How can we respond peacefully and
ensure that it does not escalate further?
Arrests, which are often arbitrary, can be made more difficult by
physically protecting those affected while
at the same time respecting their rights. the right
to show an arrest warrant, the right
to say nothing, the right not to identify oneself
and, most importantly, to document if
ice agents act unlawfully or
It is passive resistance. He is supposed to
make an impression on the officials
when they take children away from their parents,
tie up innocent workers, and use violence
against peacefully demonstrating
Nonviolent does not mean not
resisting or
avoiding confrontation. You have to show that you
have the power to remain peaceful and
not provide an excuse. They
often want escalation in order to
justify their actions. We want to
Back to Alligator Alcatrust, the
deportation camp in the sycamores of
Florida. At the entrance,
US citizens protest against the inhumane
treatment. Heat, mosquitoes, too little
water, overflowing toilets.
A delegation of politicians wants to get
an idea of the situation.
Not only are
serious criminals in the cages, as the government
claims; many prisoners have not committed
any crimes since their illegal entry .
. [Music]
They're sitting tightly packed in the
cages, humans, 32 prisoners per cage.
cage.
There are only bunk beds
and three tiny toilets. [Music]
Some people called for help. One
shouted that he was a US citizen. They chanted
But Trump supporters apparently have
no problem with anything. The
delegation also
included Republican politicians.
"The beds are more comfortable than mine
at home," he says. The reports of
spoiled food are false. It
looked so delicious that we are now hungry .
Scruples and decency seem to be scarce. Even
at the protest in New York, a counter-protester shouted:
"I want ice cream on our streets." But
the number of protesters against the
Trump administration's policies and its
deportation offensive is growing. They do
n't want America to slide into authoritarianism.
authoritarianism. S
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