The abductions began in the garment sector of Los Angeles outside a Home Depot store. The targets of the raids by US President Donald Trump’s masked immigration agents were the working-class Latino Americans who do the low-paid service and farm jobs in America.
Among those seized were a woman who was nine months pregnant. Churchgoers. Tourists. Parents dropping kids at school. Farmworkers chased through the fields. The only common factor among those seized off the streets by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents is where they work and live: Latinos are being targeted everywhere, regardless of immigration status, gender, age or nationality. This is terror by racial profiling.
The brutal tactics of ICE have shown America what dictatorship looks like: masked figures in black fatigues seizing a mother outside the school gates as she weeps and begs to be reunited with her children.