‘You don’t know if you’ll return home’: Immigration raids shake Los Angeles
Al Jazeera
Residents are on edge as the Trump administration escalates force against protests that have rocked the city.
Los Angeles, California — On a warm Tuesday afternoon in East Hollywood, Payo grilled up heaping plates of chicken, carne asada, potatoes and ribs at the food stall where he works.
He moved here three years ago from the state of Oaxaca in southern Mexico. He has a one-year-old daughter in the United States.
But in the country that he now calls “home”, even doing his job now feels dangerous.
For millions of undocumented migrants in the US, fear and uncertainty about the future are fixtures of life. Yet with the administration of US President Donald Trump launching a series of aggressive immigration raids and calling in the National Guard and more than 700 US Marines to crack down on protests that have followed, the last several days have felt different to Payo and residents of neighbourhoods in Los Angeles with large immigrant communities.
“I feel tense. It’s a bit of a risk even being out here on the street,” says Payo, who requested that only his first name be used.
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