Scott Detro, Host:

As widely played a Kings protests across the country, the performance of Los Angeles largely focused on the immigration raid. For more than a week, federal law enforcement, including immigration and customs enforcement, is a large attendance in the city, which targets the migrants unspecified at their homes and work. And as it happened, Lindsay Tozilowski and his team are tracking those who have been detained and they are listening to their families. She is the cofounder, president and CEO of the immigrant Defenders Law Center and now joins me. हाय, लिंडसे।

Detrow: I want to start by receiving your feedback on these signs that the Trump administration can transfer its strategy on these impressions. On Thursday, President Trump had a post that was changing in hospitality activists and farm workers, saying that he was listening to people in those industries that his administration had a policy, said, “To take away the workers away from them for a long,” very good, long. ” What do you make out of it, first, and have you seen any signs of the raid slowing down?

Toczylowski: हम छापे होते हुए देखते हैं। We saw that people were protesting during the No King’s March in Los Angeles. We saw that in swap meats, car wash, across the city, car wash. यह जारी है, आप जानते हैं, हमारे सैकड़ों पड़ोसी। Many of the people we are looking at at the detention center have been in Los Angeles for more than 20 years. So of course we will expect what the President is doing in separating our communities in Los Angeles.

Detrow: सही। And just to clarify, then, you are saying, as Sunday, you are not seeing any signal to slow down the speed from the last one week?

Detrow: Can you make us realize what your work has seen like this previous weekend? What is your team doing when you get the air of another raid at another place?

Toczylowski: Okay, we are working with ground -level outfits to gather information from families. So we have a hotline that family can say when their loved ones are detained with snow. As soon as we get the information, we have teams that are at local detention centers, where we know that the federal government is catching people after keeping people in custody. And generally, when someone is detained with snow, we will immediately see them going to an ice detention center, and we will be able to see the captive locator and find them. But due to the quantity of people that they are taking to the streets in Los Angeles and from the working, we are seeing that people are being held in real office buildings that people are not to build houses for a long time. We also have news of the whole families with young children that are being held in office buildings, where they are given potato chips and milk for only a 3-year-old child-people who are spending days under those circumstances.

Detrow: And in those situations, is it difficult for groups like you to track who is it?

Toczylowski: बिल्कुल। As of Friday, out of more than 135 people whom we had identified in our list, we were still looking for more than half of them. मैं आज बाद में डिटेंशन सेंटर में जाऊंगा। We have a list of people who have been taken out of our communities throughout the week, whose families are desperate for information on them. When we go there, we are often able to meet with three or four people, spend, you know, eight to 12 hours in the detention center because they are very crowded.

DETROW: क्या इस पल के लिए कोई तुलनात्मक बिंदु है? I mean, the first was focused on custody during administration. As mentioned often, President Biden and Obama also overturned a large number of exile. Have you seen any comparable period for whatever you are now experiencing?

Toczylowski: नहीं। In my 15 years of practice, I have never seen anything such as people are being taken from a particular city like Los Angeles and – you know, and also the number of those who are in the eyes of snow at the national level. But it reminds me of family isolation and anarchy that we saw after zero tolerance, when the children were torn from their parents on the border. We are seeing the same chaos with the lives of humans that we saw during the separation of the family which is now happening again.

Detrow: This Lindsay was the chairman at Tocizilowski, a lawyer and an immigrant Defenders Law Center, an organization that provides legal representation to migrants in Southern California. thank you so much.

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