Bill Holston, executive director of the Dallas Eviction Advocacy Center, emphasized that the new tracking strategy by ICE will exacerbate intimidation among migrants and increase discrimination against tenants based on race and national origin. He stated that many landlords might already avoid working with specific populations, which could get worse due to the pressure brought by ICE's new measures.
"I sell out in 30 minutes - less than an hour, and I'm already gone," she says. A recent Instagram post says: "Crazy how I first started selling only 10 burritos a day to now selling up to 60 to 75 burritos a day."
Numerous reports of ICE raids are circulating, but many are false alarms. Incidents at various locations, including McDonald's and a tire shop, involved local police and not federal agents.
The San Francisco Unified School District is adopting an off-the-shelf ethnic studies curriculum, as the superintendent confirmed amidst controversies surrounding their homegrown program.
"We're very grateful for the county's investment to date, but I think we all know $700,000 is not enough to set up an infrastructure that covers an entire county."
But while I was comfortably ensconced in a happy bubble, the escalating conflict between demonstrators protesting against immigration raids and the Los Angeles Police Department cast a dark and soul-shaking pall that could not be ignored.
The number of tankers dispatched in the same direction on a Sunday night is quite odd given 40,000 active duty personnel deployed at multiple bases in the Middle East and at least two naval destroyers in the vicinity.