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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Amid increasing protests crossed the federation against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids successful assemblage spaces, Fresno County officials are clarifying what tin beryllium done by those straight impacted.
"When you're showing up to places of employment, erstwhile you're showing up to neighborhoods and doing these types of conscionable random raids...that's not what our country's about. It's precise reminiscent of what the Gestapo did successful Germany close earlier the Nazis came into powerfulness and we shouldn't person that dynamic successful our country, overmuch little the Central Valley," said Fresno County Supervisor Luis Chavez.
Chavez was elected to the Board of Supervisors astir the clip the archetypal ICE raids began successful Kern County earlier this year. Advocates for migrant communities took to the streets then
"We person specified a bipolar, hypocritical strategy wherever with 1 manus we question immigrants to travel successful and bash the backmost breaking enactment that we cognize our industries request whether its agriculture, housing, work sector," Chavez explained, "but with the different manus we archer them they can't beryllium portion of our community."
Since Sunday, a full of 4,000 National Guard members and 700 marines were deployed successful Los Angeles by bid of President Donald Trump to mitigate the wide anti-ICE protests happening successful the city.
"We cognize we person a breached migration strategy but this is not what the radical voted for. When President Trump came into office, and adjacent earlier during the campaign, helium said helium was going to absorption connected securing the borderline and focusing connected criminal, convulsive individuals— and that's not what this is," Chavez expressed.
In a connection sent Tuesday, Fresno County Sheriff John Zanoni praised the Trump medication for its effect to the LA protests in a nationalist statement, and criticised Governor Gavin Newsom.
"Governor Newsom has erstwhile again failed his duties. On apical of that, helium is wasting our taxation dollars arsenic helium has connected truthful galore things. In this case, by suing Trump implicit the deployment of the National Guard. President Trump did what helium had to bash to code a wide and contiguous information that these rioters and protesters presented," Zanoni's connection work successful part.
As a effect of the hysteria created among migrant communities, Chavez says earlier this twelvemonth vacancy rates successful nutrient processing plants, farms, and the similar ranged from 25% to 40%.
"Last year, Fresno County produced $8 cardinal successful cultivation products, arsenic you're aware. I'm not definite we're going to scope that fig with everything that's going on," said Chavez.
Hundreds gathered successful Downtown Fresno connected Monday to articulation successful connected nationwide protests calling for ICE to halt what galore protestors notation to arsenic unlawful deportations. Chavez and Zanoni some judge protesters are good wrong their First Amendment rights, conscionable truthful agelong arsenic the protests bash not crook violent.
Both Fresno County officials reassure the nationalist that section instrumentality enforcement agencies are incapable to enactment with ICE as a effect of SB54. Officials accidental the lone crushed for section instrumentality enforcement's beingness is to mitigate immoderate unit if it occurs.
"The sheriff section oregon the constabulary section [are there] to forestall what we've been seeing connected the screen, which is simply a radical of individuals that person taken this accidental to truly interject their ain docket and pain vehicles and destruct property— that's not the benignant of visuals we privation to nonstop retired determination to the federation and to the world," Chavez said.
Chavez says successful their past gathering with Sheriff Zanoni, helium provided documentation of the fig of individuals booked into the Fresno County Jail that were picked up by national agencies.
"It was specified a minuscule fig that I deliberation it underlined the constituent that the immense bulk of immigrants are not breaking the law, they're present to work. We had implicit 26,000 bookings successful our section jail, lone astir 100 radical were turned implicit to the Department of Homeland Security," Chavez said.
Chavez advises anyone disquieted astir ICE encounters to cognize their rights.
"We person to marque definite we guarantee the integrity of our judicial system. We person to springiness radical the accidental for owed process. Habeas Corpus is simply a precise important portion of our constitution and I deliberation that we should respect that."
