{"id":2816,"date":"2017-02-28T14:06:53","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T21:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniondelbarrio.org\/main\/?p=2816"},"modified":"2017-02-28T14:31:52","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T21:31:52","slug":"during-february-of-2017-trumpistas-sent-our-communities-a-clear-message-of-what-they-have-in-mind-for-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uniondelbarrio.org\/main\/during-february-of-2017-trumpistas-sent-our-communities-a-clear-message-of-what-they-have-in-mind-for-us\/","title":{"rendered":"During February of 2017, Trumpistas Sent Our Communities A Clear Message Of What They Have In Mind For Us"},"content":{"rendered":"

The real question is, what are we going to do about it?<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

Among the generalized political division and increasing hatred that Trump has fomented during his first weeks as president, it takes a little work to discern what is now clearly a pattern of white nationalist aggression that has been unleashed against our communities. Indeed, it is easy to argue that trumpistas have been equal opportunity haters since their man took office on January 20th (anti-Muslim, anti-Black, anti-women, anti-LGBT, anti-freedom of the press, anti-environment, anti-education, etc.). What we need to keep an eye on is how civilian trumpistas are now aligning their hatred with state sponsored trumpista fascism, and together they have started to move more aggressively against so-called \u201cimmigrant\u201d communities in general, and against Mexican communities in particular.<\/p>\n

Here is a brief timeline to show what we mean\u2026 In late January and early February, just as the \u201cMuslim Ban\u201d and the airport protests had reached their highpoint, Trump\u2019s \u201cExecutive Order: Border Security and Immigration Enforcement Improvements<\/a>\u201d not only authorized the construction of his infamous \u201cwall,\u201d but it provided the political framework for an immediate increase in deportations and ICE raids. Soon thereafter we began to hear about \u201csweeps,\u201d and hundreds of detentions<\/a> that took place during the first two weeks of February.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Among the many federal \u201canti-immigrant\u201d actions deployed across the country, the first to receive significant national attention was the February 8th detention and deportation of the Mexicana mother Guadalupe Garc\u00eda de Rayos in Phoenix, Arizona<\/a>. In spite of the important spontaneous protest to her detention, multiple arrests were made of people who sought to block her deportation, and her expulsion to Mexico was expedited.<\/p>\n

Two days later, on February 10th, news spread of the detention of the young Mexicano DACA recipient Daniel Ramirez Medina<\/a> in Seattle, Washington. While his detention is still being challenged legally, this ongoing case now points to the possible suspension of temporary DACA rights if not in policy, then at least in practice. These Phoenix and Seattle incidents represent only a small part of a national intensification of the anti-Mexican \u201cimmigration\u201d raids and related aggressive federal enforcement actions undertaken by the government that were motivated by Trump\u2019s executive order.<\/p>\n

As a consequence of the intensified ICE detentions, fear in our communities has spread rapidly, while hundreds of protests have been organized across the country to resist the raids. Some of these protests have included limited forms of direct action, although these do not compare to the serious escalation of violence expressed by local police and civilian trumpistas. To be clear, what we are arguing is that there exists a direct line connecting Trump\u2019s anti-Mexican rhetoric to his January 25 executive order, the intensification of ICE raids, and the broader escalation of local police and civilian violence unleashed against \u201cimmigrant\u201d communities. Furthermore, although this violence has been understood as a surge in general \u201canti-immigrant\u201d sentiment, we argue that this aggression actually represents the early stages of a more focused anti-indigenous, anti-Mexican strategy that is at the heart of trumpista fascism.<\/p>\n

February 16th.<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>For example, at a protest that took place in Tucson, Arizona<\/a> numerous people were arrested for blocking a downtown intersection, including members of the community organization known as the Brown Berets. At this relatively small protest, an 86-year-old lady was pushed to the ground by police, and another elderly lady who tried to help her friend was pepper sprayed right into her eyes. The Tucson police officer that pushed and pepper sprayed these women had clearly taken it upon himself to escalate the violence at the intersection that day. In multiple videos of the same protest, he is seen violently pushing another person<\/a>, he was the first to put his hands on one of the Brown Berets activists<\/a>, and he was the first to deploy pepper spray against the protesters<\/a>. It is important for all progressive people to take note of the willingness of this Tucson police officer to use violence to crush this small nonviolent protest.<\/p>\n

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Arrived in #Tucson<\/a> #AZ<\/a> at a protest against increasing nationwide ICE raids. PD pepper spray the crowd. #not1moredeportation<\/a> #ni1mas<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/QoMZGROxRY<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Unicorn Riot (@UR_Ninja) February 17, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n