Brazilian immigrants who reside illegally in the US use WhatsApp group messaging chat to share live information about the ongoing Immigration Customs (ICE) attacks and avoid deportation, Brazilian news outlet G1 It has been reported on monday.
According to G1, migrant groups act as “ath sent”, observing ice movements and passing in group chat information to avoid detention and potential deportation. Similarly, immigrants are skipping jobs and are not sending their children to school without fear of being detained by immigrant staff.
The G1 spoke to one such illegal Brazilian immigrant under anonymous status. The man who claims to live in Florida and works in the construction industry said he has two children and could be deported due to lack of legal status in the country.
The man explained that he would communicate with a group of migrants via whatsapp messaging platform, where he would use real-time information about ice raids to avoid them. The man added, “There are days when the police play it and there are days when it's “bumor.” “I insisted.
“They are [ICE] It was already stopped in front of an apartment building belonging to my friend, where I went to pick up a couple of people,” the man said. “It scares us around here. Everyone is scared. There's no way you can walk, it's very complicated and very nervous.”
“Fear leaves the kids behind. Who are they with? Few people we know. If I'm caught, ask the Americans to come and pick me up. I can't do that,” he added.
Andre Simes, project manager at the Brazilian Workers Center in Boston, told G1 he has received “many calls” for help, including financial support, while individuals stop fearing arrests. . Sim'es observes that immigrants choose to stay home as their “first safeguard,” and WhatsApp “triggers” an “alert” when immigrants find ice agents in the area is used for.
“The community uses WhatsApp for a lot of communication, so you can see where the Brazilian group lives nearby are, where they have apartments and the entire neighborhood. And Ice, the immigration police, is “No one would leave their home because they were there,” he emphasized.
A Brazilian teacher living in Massachusetts spoke with G1 in anonymity and claimed that the number of student absences has increased by 50% since President Donald Trump took office.
“I'm an immigrant, so they can talk to me more freely. So they often get there and say, “What if the immigrants come here? What if the ice comes here? I'm in school If they stop me when I get off the bus. Are you going to help me? What do you do? So we see the fear in the eyes of the children,” the teacher said.
“The number of absentees is huge. Each teacher is responsible for marking the attendance of a small number of students. I am responsible for the group. I receive a list of clipboards on the bus. For example, last week, most of the immigrants were He was away,” she insisted.
Statistical data from the US Department of Homeland Security showed that around 230,000 Brazilians would be illegally residing in the United States. 2022became the eighth largest group in DHS statistics at the time of publication. In 2021, Border Patrol agents recorded a phenomenal thing while managing former US President Joe Biden 114,000% Compared to 2020, the increase in Brazilian national capture at the US southern border was at a rate of more than 1,000 detention per month.
As of early February, 199 Brazilians have reportedly been deported from the United States on deportation flights since President Donald Trump began administering it. The first Brazil-bound US deportation flight to which 88 Brazilian deportees arrived in late January prompted a brief outrage from Brazilian government authorities. defendant The United States is engaged in “decomposition treatment” of immigrants due to “promiscuous” use of handcuffs and ankle restraints, and other “unacceptable” allegations that some deportees allege.
The flight was originally scheduled to land in the southeastern city of Belohorizonte on Friday, January 24th, but was forced to take a stopover in the city of Manaus in the north after encountering technical issues. Upon arriving at Manaus, Brazilian authorities refused to use detention at the exile and led to differences of opinion with local governments that refused to continue their journey to Belo Horizonte. Brazil's Luis Inacio Lula da Silva's radical left-wing president had Denner on a Brazilian Air Force plane with Belo Horizonte Instead.
A few days later, Brazil's Foreign Ministry summoned the head of the US embassy at Brasilia Gabriel Escobar, demanding an explanation for the use of the restraint, urging it to be replaced with a more “dourous procedure.” Escobar reportedly promised to check the flight status.
The second US deportation flight departed from Alexandria, Louisiana, and arrived in a northeastern city after a stopover in Puerto Rico on Friday, February 7th. The flight was brought with its group of 111 Brazilian exiles.
G1 I explained it Because the city's airport is one of the US territory, it was one of the territory at the time when Fortaleza was said to have been chosen as Belohorizonte, reducing the time that the territory flew through Brazilian territory in handcuffs. did.
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