Immigration swings of the Trump administration that took a tour of southern California showed few signs of slowdown despite the proceedings, an order from the court and increasing indications Aggressive actions are not popular with the public.
The operations, which began in the Los Angeles region in early June, were largely focused on small -scale targets such as car washing, shopping centers and Home Depot parking lots before the authorities reach their largest target last week – two farms for one of the largest cannabis companies in California. A worker died after falling from a greenhouse roof during the raid, while 361 others were arrested.
Responding to death, the chief advisor to president Trump, Tom Homan, described the situation as “sad”.
“It is obviously unhappy when there are deaths,” he told CNN. “No one wants to see people die.”
“He was not in police custody,” said Homan. “Ice did not have the hand on this person.”
Internal security secretary Kristi Noem said that the authorities planned to intensify immigration repression thanks to more funding from the “One Big Beld Act” expense plan recently adopted by the Congress.
The budgetary bill infuses approximately $ 150 billion in the immigration and application of Trump borders, in particular the financing of the endowment on ice and the border patrol, the construction and exploitation of immigrant detention facilities, and the reimbursement of local states and governments for the costs related to immigration.
“We are going to arrive stronger and faster, and we are going to bring these criminals down with even more strength than ever before,” said Noem at a press conference during the weekend. Trump, she added, “has a mandate from the American people to clean our streets, to help our more safe communities.”
But there are signs that the support could slip.
A Gallup survey published this month shows that fewer Americans that in June 2024 are back of strict borders’ application measures and more now prefer to offer the offer of undocumented immigrants living in the ways of citizenship. The percentage of respondents who want immigration to be reduced increased from 55% in 2024 to 30% in the current survey, reversing an increase in immigration problems.
Although the desire for less immigration has decreased among all the main political parties, the decrease in Republicans was significant – down 40% compared to last year. Among the self -employed, the preference for less immigration is down 21%, and among the Democrats, it is down 12%, according to the survey.
The survey has also shown that a record summit of 79% of adults consider the country’s beneficial immigration and that only 17% think that it is negative, a record level for the survey.
Meanwhile, a survey of Quinnipiac University published in June indicates that 38% of voters approve how Trump manages the presidency, while 54% disapprove of. On immigration, 54% of those questioned disapprove of Trump management of the problem and 56% disapprove of deportations.
At the same time, increasing legal challenges have threatened to hinder the efforts of the Trump administration.
Friday, the American district judge Maame Ewusi -Mensah Frimpong, appointed by President Biden, temporarily blocked federal agents in the Southland to use racial profiling to carry out immigration arrests after finding sufficient evidence that agents used the race, the standard of a person or their location, and their language to form “reasonable suspicions” – legal standard necessary to hold an individual.
But the Trump administration has promised to retaliate.
“No federal judge has the power to dictate the immigration policy – this authority rests with the congress and the president,” said Abigail Jackson, spokesperson for the White House. “Application operations require careful planning and execution; Skills far beyond the jurisdiction or jurisdiction of any judge. We expect this gross overcoming of the judicial authority to be corrected on appeal. ”
On Monday, the administration asked a federal court of appeal to cancel the judge’s order, allowing him to take over the raids in seven counties of California.
Legal experts say that it is difficult to say how the federal government will succeed in obtaining a stay on temporary order, given the current political climate.
“This is different from many other types of Trump disputes because the law is so clear in the factual conclusion by the district court,” said Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean of the Berkeley School of Law. “So, if you follow the basic legal principles, this is a very low case for the government on appeal, but it is so difficult to predict what will happen because everything is so ideological.”
In the past, the legal researchers say, it would be extremely rare for a court of appeal to weigh on such an order. But recent events suggest that it is not outside the area of the possibility.
In June, the United States Supreme Court ruled in favor of authorizing it the federal government to expel criminals sentenced to “third countries” even if they have no prior link with these countries.
This same month, he also ruled 6 to 3 to limit the ability of federal district judges to issue orders at the national level blocking the policies of the president, which was often a control of executive power.
However, this is not an easy case for the government, said Ahilan Arulanantham, professor of practice and co -director of the Center for Immigration Law and Policy at the UCLA School of Law.
“I think that a thing that makes this case a little more difficult for the government than some of the other cases of ghost docket is that it really affects citizens importantly,” he said. “Obviously, the immigration agent does not know in advance when he sees someone, whether citizens or not citizens or whether they are legally present or not.”
Continuous sweeping resulted in a wave of other prosecution contesting the Trump administration. In the midst of legal battles, there are also signs of upheaval within the federal government.
Reuters reported on Monday that the unity of the Ministry of Justice accused of defending legal challenges to administration policies, in particular by restricting citizenship of the right of birthday, lost almost two thirds of its staff.
The administration was also faced with a meticulous examination of democrats and activists on its management of last week’s raids in marijuana culture farms, which were part of a legal and highly regulated industry in California.
“It was disproportionate, exaggerated,” said representative Salud Carbajal (D-Santa Barbara) about the operation.
Representative Jimmy Gomez (D-Los Angeles) criticized Trump for having targeted immigrant agricultural workers while the administration continues to publicly declare that his objectives are people with judicial lockers.
“How many members of the Gang MS -13 wake up at 3 am to choose strawberries? O’Yyeah, Zero! Trump said that he would go after” Bad Hombres “, but he targets immigrant agricultural workers who would feed America. Either he lied – or he cannot make the difference,” wrote Gomez on X.
The White House applauded in a post on X: “It is not produced, Holmes. It is a product.”
During the weekend, Jaime Alanís Garcia, 57, the agricultural worker of cannabis who was seriously injured after having fallen from a roof in the middle of the chaos of the Camillo raid, was withdrawn from life, according to his family.
Alanís’ family said that he was fleeing immigration agents to the cannabis operation of the glass house in Camallo on Thursday when he climbed at the top of a greenhouse and accidentally fell by 30 feet, undergoing a catastrophic injury. The Ministry of Internal Security said that Lalan has been one of those who were prosecuted.
His niece announced his death on a GoFundme page on Saturday, which described him as a husband and a father and the only supplier of the family. The page had collected more than $ 159,000 on Monday afternoon, of course its initial objective of $ 50,000.
“They took one of the members of our family. We need justice,” wrote the niece.
Time staff writers Sonja Sharp, Dakota Smith and Jeanette Marantos contributed to this report.
