Migrants have been seen shackled at the ankles and waist, walking onto military planes with deportation orders carried out by the new Trump administration.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has reportedly ordered a pause in some programs, but there is anger and fear in many communities across the country. Toni Waterman reports from Texas.
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has reportedly ordered a pause in some programs, but there is anger and fear in many communities across the country. Toni Waterman reports from Texas.
#migrant #trump #immigration
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00:00The first photographic evidence of President Donald Trump's mass deportation promise in action.
00:07His press secretary posting these photos on social media,
00:11showing people being escorted onto a military aircraft shackled at the ankles and waist.
00:18Video released from the Guatemalan government shows two flights arriving in the capital city.
00:25Trump officials say 538 people were arrested by immigration officials on Thursday, including some criminals.
00:33When I got this information, I was appalled.
00:36Meanwhile, the mayor of Newark, New Jersey, saying a raid overnight in his city was done without a warrant
00:42and that U.S. citizens were detained alongside three undocumented migrants.
00:48One person showed their military veteran identification and was still questioned anyway.
00:54And if we allow people to identify us or put us in categories of criminal or any other thing just by the way we look,
01:05then we're going back to a time that was very dangerous in this country, specifically for people that looked like me.
01:12Federal immigration officials saying citizens are sometimes ID'd during their fieldwork.
01:17The arrests and deportations, though, putting immigrant communities further on edge,
01:23especially after the Trump administration lifted a longstanding policy that barred arrests in and around schools and churches.
01:31The police department or ICE.
01:33Javier Leyva has been a pastor at a church in Eagle Pass, Texas, right along the U.S.-Mexico border for the past five years.
01:42Do you think that ICE agents would come to your church?
01:45Well, if they have orders and they suspect that somebody's undocumented, even if we're Christian, we have to follow the law and obey it, whether we like it or not.
01:56Have you gotten a sense that some of your parishioners are going to stop coming to mass because they're scared?
02:03That's very possible. Or even go to the doctor. Or get their kids out of school.
02:10That was the way they were raised.
02:12Across town, a group of Eagle Pass locals meet up for their daily political breakfast.
02:18The people who we don't want to have here are those who are criminal intent or criminal already did.
02:23And, yeah, they should be removed.
02:25But I don't see the mass deportations freaking people out, dividing up families.
02:30We need to establish order. We cannot continue with this disorder that we're having right now.
02:35What's not yet clear is where the line will be drawn.
02:39If deporting mostly criminals will satiate calls for mass deportations, or if the rest of the estimated 11 million people in the U.S. illegally will also be targeted.
02:51Toni Waterman, CGTN, Eagle Pass, Texas.