By: Gabriela Carballo
Over the weekend, agents arrested 15 undocumented immigrants in St. Rose, Louisiana, according to the US Border Patrol. UU. Fourteen of the people arrested are Mexican, while one is Nicaraguan. They were delivered by the Gulf Coast Security Council after trying to take the security training offered at the establishment. One of the 15 arrested is a minor. The adults are being held in the St. Tammany Parish jail and the child has already been prosecuted for removal from the US. UU.
These are the facts. It is easy to read these words and not feel anything. We do not know these people. It has become commonplace to watch news clips, read Facebook statements and hold debates focused on the legality of human beings. However, it becomes more real, more shocking when it happens in our backyard. Immigration raids have been at the forefront of the talks due to the current president’s rhetoric and the “zero tolerance” policy regarding illegal immigration. President Donald Trump is famously quoted as saying that “Mexican illegal immigrants are bringing drugs. They are bringing the crime. They are rapists. And some, I guess, are good people.
This viral sound has been reproduced for the past two and a half years. However, his repulsion should not be forgotten. Like much of what the president says, he is racist and, in fact, wrong. In fact, “incarceration rates among undocumented immigrants were approximately half of those of Native Americans in 2017,” according to the CATO Institute, a public policy research institute. CATO also conducted an investigation into undocumented immigrants in Texas and discovered that “crime along the Mexican border is much lower than in the rest of the country,” and that “police authorization rates are not lower in the states. with many immigrants undocumented, which means that they do not escape the sentence when leaving the country after committing crimes. ”
Last week, rhetoric, debates and raids came to our door. New Orleans offers an interesting case study on immigration work; A microcosm of our country. Our city, our home, was built by immigrants more than 300 years ago and immigrants have continued to play a vital role in the definition and revolution of what New Orleans is and who the new Orleans are. The most recent example, of course, is the post-Katrina influx of Latinx immigrants. After the hurricane, Latinx people from all of Central America were recruited to come to New Orleans to do the work that very few wanted or had the ability to rebuild the city. In the months after the storm, an estimated 100,000 Hispanics arrived in the New Orleans metropolitan area, according to The Times-Picayune | New Orleans lawyer.
