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[00:03:26] People must take responsibility for their actions, the decisions they have made, and the consequences.
[00:03:31] Ordinary families may be destroyed.
[00:03:33] These are not the worst of the worst.
[00:03:37] These are the best
[00:03:39] of the best.
[00:03:44] Roll down your window. What happened?
[00:03:48] What are you saying? It's early February in Minnesota
[00:03:51] and Javier Abreu has been stopped by US Immigration
[00:03:54] and Customs Enforcement officers.
[00:03:58] Okay, tell me what happened. What did
[00:04:01] I do?
[00:04:03] Why do you want me to open the door? He is afraid to open the car door
[00:04:07] and records with his phone. Can you tell me what
[00:04:10] happened? Recently, two people were shot dead by officers in
[00:04:14] all right,
[00:04:17] Why are you breaking the
[00:04:20] window? Dad,
[00:04:23] wait!
[00:04:26] What are you doing? All right! Get out!
[00:04:30] Wait, I'll get out myself. I'll come out myself. I'm
[00:04:33] getting out myself.
[00:04:36] Don't take me out, I'll get out myself. Get out!
[00:04:40] What's the
[00:04:45] problem? I'll make a stone. That's fine. I don't know what
[00:04:47] happened. I don't understand. Don't come closer. Just
[00:04:51] stand there. What do these people want with me? What's your name?
[00:04:55] Javier Rabrio.
[00:04:58] I want to know why I
[00:05:05] have a problem. They didn't pay any attention and very easily
[00:05:08] took him with them. What happened at that moment?
[00:06:12] had submitted his residency application and was awaiting
[00:06:16] a decision on it. He is now in a
[00:06:19] detention center facing possible deportation.
[00:06:22] The couple's young daughter has American citizenship
[00:06:26] because she was born in the US. How do the girls
[00:06:29] feel? When they ask me when
[00:06:32] he's coming back, I tell them everything will
[00:06:36] be fine. Before these events, we felt
[00:06:39] safe here. Now. In previous
[00:06:43] administrations,
[00:06:47] Javier probably wouldn't have been detained because his residency application
[00:06:51] was being processed.
[00:06:52] However,
[00:06:57] case reviews often take years, and
[00:07:01] many Americans are angry about the increasing number
[00:07:04] of immigrants. In President Trump's election campaign,
[00:07:08] he promised voters to crack down on immigrants.
[00:07:12] The first day I return to the White House, I will cancel
[00:07:15] all of the Biden administration's programs and stop the
[00:07:19] invasion of our southern borders, and I will implement the largest
[00:07:22] deportation operation in American history because
[00:07:26] we have no other choice. His
[00:07:29] administration is trying to revoke the automatic right to citizenship
[00:07:33] for individuals born in the US to immigrant parents.
[00:07:36] The Department of Immigration
[00:07:39] receives $75 billion in additional
[00:07:43] funding. Also, the number of
[00:07:46] immigration officers has doubled to 22,000
[00:07:50] people. They were sent to various cities
[00:07:54] and arrested and deported some undocumented immigrants
[00:07:57] in the US, whose numbers are estimated to reach about
[00:08:01] 14 million. Since President
[00:08:05] Trump took office, the number of arrests by the Department
[00:08:09] of Immigration has quadrupled. implemented
[00:09:20] measures in urban areas. 4,000
[00:09:22] federal agents were sent to
[00:09:26] Minnesota.
[00:09:27] Please
[00:09:31] go home. Please
[00:09:34] go home. In early January, Ringwood, a mother
[00:09:38] of three, watched an immigration operation in Minneapolis.
[00:09:42] defended
[00:10:55] the massacre. This person, who came
[00:10:58] with weapons and ammunition to stop
[00:11:01] the operations of federal law enforcement forces,
[00:11:05] had committed a terrorist act. This
[00:11:08] is a fact.
[00:11:13] The president said shortly after that the two shootings should not have happened and
[00:11:17] his administration was investigating the matter. But Minnesota
[00:11:20] officials criticized the administration for not cooperating
[00:11:23] with the local police investigation.
[00:11:55] And our neighbors here don't want such a thing and don't support
[00:11:59] it.
[00:12:03] These shootings have divided America.
[00:12:06] Donald
[00:12:08] Trump built his election campaign on hatred
[00:12:12] of immigrants. Republicans gathered here tonight to
[00:12:15] hear the words of the next governor candidates in Minnesota. Some
[00:12:19] here blame the protesters for inciting the conflicts.
[00:12:22] What are they doing? They're just interfering with the forces.
[00:12:55] Immigration in Minneapolis are in hiding. They
[00:12:58] think that if they leave their home or show their
[00:13:02] face in front of the camera, they will be targeted.
[00:13:05] It's very scary.
[00:13:08] It's a very difficult time and my family is very
[00:13:12] scared and distressed.
[00:13:15] The couple we call
[00:13:18] Lisbeth and Alfonso came to
[00:13:21] the US 20 years ago as children. Both
[00:13:25] submitted their residency applications in the US. Lisbeth has been granted
[00:13:28] temporary residency. Previously,
[00:13:32] at another time, this situation was acceptable for
[00:13:36] living, but under this administration,
[00:13:40] there is practically no validity
[00:13:42] to our case. We can be arrested at any moment, and he
[00:13:46] might also be deported. He was an social activist, and
[00:13:49] her husband works in construction and catering services.
[00:13:52] They both quit their jobs due to the
[00:13:55] immigration operations, but she has returned to
[00:13:59] work. I begged him not to go back to
[00:14:02] work, but he told me we had to eat and pay the
[00:14:06] bills. Their two children were born in the US and
[00:14:09] are American. But these days, they are homeschooled. Local
[00:14:13] schools warned that immigration officers target
[00:14:17] families when taking children to school. I really
[00:14:20] want to go back to Mexico City
[00:14:23] and build a new life
[00:14:27] for ourselves, and I want my children to be
[00:14:30] free.
[00:14:32] There are approximately 5 million families with different residency statuses
[00:14:36] like this in the US. This means that some
[00:14:40] family members have the right to live in the US, and
[00:14:43] others must be deported. Deportation destroys
[00:14:47] those families. It can mean that children, despite
[00:14:50] being American, are forced to leave US soil or live
[00:14:54] with another family member. Unfortunately, people
[00:14:58] have made decisions to either break the law or
[00:15:01] continue doing the same thing, and this
[00:15:04] means that those around them are affected. People must
[00:15:08] take responsibility for their actions, the decisions they have made,
[00:15:11] and the consequences.
[00:15:13] The
[00:15:15] Trump administration says that the Department of Immigration is looking for the most dangerous
[00:15:19] criminals. The worst of the worst.
[00:15:21] These are.
[00:15:37] Some of the people that the Department of Immigration has detained
[00:15:41] have committed serious crimes.
[00:15:44] But 70% of them have not committed any crime on US soil.
[00:15:48] For many, mass deportations meant going after
[00:15:52] bad people. But there aren't that many bad
[00:15:56] people. Most undocumented immigrants have lives that,
[00:15:59] yes, you could say they violate immigration law, but in other aspects,
[00:16:03] they live relatively normal
[00:16:04] lives.
[00:16:11] In Minnesota, a widespread network of volunteers
[00:16:14] has formed to help people who are afraid to leave
[00:16:17] their homes. This food bank sends 5,000 meals a
[00:16:21] week. The
[00:16:24] scope of this operation tells us two things. One, the number
[00:16:28] of people ready to help, and two, the number of people who
[00:16:32] need
[00:16:32] help.
[00:16:36] Why do people help
[00:17:07] with this? The volunteers are almost all white
[00:17:11] and say the reason is that people of color
[00:17:15] were arrested while delivering food. My father was arrested
[00:17:18] for doing the exact same thing we are doing now, and
[00:17:22] an hour later, he was transferred to Texas without any meeting
[00:17:25] with his lawyer, without anything. After his arrest, their father
[00:17:29] spent 16 nights in detention until he was finally released. He
[00:17:32] has four children who are US citizens.
[00:17:36] 29 years.
[00:17:46] What they did to me is unfair because I had a driver's license
[00:17:50] and work permit, and I was waiting for my green card.
[00:17:54] I was handcuffed, my feet were chained,
[00:17:58] all my hands were tied just like
[00:18:01] a criminal. I
[00:18:04] felt very humiliated. Social
[00:18:12] groups in Minnesota say they have trained 35,000 people
[00:18:16] to safely monitor immigration officers.
[00:18:19] We are going to a hotel where they have
[00:18:22] been for at least the past month.
[00:18:26] I promise you there's at least one immigration car there.
[00:18:29] Madison spends most mornings
[00:18:33] patrolling. Are you breaking the law by following them? Not
[00:18:36] at all. From a safe distance, from a safe distance, you are
[00:18:40] absolutely allowed to observe government operations. I am not
[00:18:44] allowed to interfere with them. It's hard to stop or interfere
[00:18:47] with someone from behind.
[00:18:50] They have recorded the cars they say immigration uses
[00:18:53] in a database. Let's see if I can
[00:18:57] check this one. Yes, this is confirmed to be
[00:19:01] from immigration. 14 reports have been filed for it. This
[00:19:04] one is filming us. Yes, I don't know.
[00:20:03] I have conflicting feelings.
[00:20:07] I am hopeful, but at the same time, I ask
[00:20:11] myself, what if he doesn't come back? My mind goes
[00:20:14] to a thousand places, a thousand questions, a thousand
[00:20:17] thoughts. He is facing
[00:20:21] deportation, even though he has no
[00:20:24] criminal record. Hello, yes, good morning. Do we have a few minutes
[00:20:27] to talk? Of course.
[00:20:31] All right, I just wanted to let you know Javier's $12,000 bond
[00:20:34] has been approved. The
[00:20:43] lawyer gave me good news and told me that the judge
[00:20:46] approved my husband's bond. $12,000
[00:20:50] that needs to be paid. Where are you going to get this
[00:20:52] money? I don't know, but there are people
[00:20:56] who will help us.
[00:20:59] Great. Great. I'm happy. I'm really, really
[00:21:02] happy. In January, the number
[00:21:06] of immigrants in detention reached 70,000.
[00:21:09] This is double the number of detainees at the beginning
[00:21:13] of Donald Trump's second presidential term.
[00:21:17] Some are detained hundreds of kilometers
[00:21:20] from home. Javier was sent
[00:21:24] to a detention center in Texas, near
[00:21:27] the Mexican border.
[00:21:30] There, the East Montana camp is a huge
[00:21:33] complex of tents. It is currently the largest US Immigration
[00:21:37] detention center. This camp has a capacity
[00:21:40] of 4,000 people. A US Immigration
[00:21:44] inspection has shown that there have been deficiencies
[00:21:48] in providing medical services and maintaining the safety of detainees,
[00:21:51] and officers use force.
[00:21:55] A detainee died in January after being restrained by officers.
[00:21:59] US Immigration said another death in the same month was apparently
[00:22:03] due to suicide. Eli was at the East
[00:22:06] Montana camp at the time. Everything
[00:22:10] is white. Everywhere is white. People get
[00:22:13] very anxious. It's not just me. Many others
[00:22:17] also get anxious. It seems like I'm doing
[00:22:20] well, but I think this is a trauma that stays
[00:22:24] with a person for a long time. It has affected
[00:22:28] me a lot, my family, my wife, my
[00:22:31] children.
[00:22:34] This morning I made a surprise visit to the US Immigration
[00:22:38] detention center in my area, the East
[00:22:42] Montana camp.
[00:22:44] We had tuberculosis outbreaks, and now we have measles
[00:22:48] inside this facility. I was talking to a man who had been
[00:22:52] detained. The officers had been so violent during
[00:22:55] his arrest that they had broken his arm. I
[00:22:59] could see his broken bone.
[00:23:02] It was terrible. I asked him if he had told
[00:23:06] an East Montana camp employee about this, and he
[00:23:09] said, "I tell them every day." He told me that he was
[00:23:13] desperate. He said that he just wanted them to deport him so he could
[00:23:16] go to a hospital in his own country to be admitted. I think
[00:23:20] this process is intentionally designed to be cruel.
[00:23:23] Nearby,
[00:23:28] at a gun shop in El Paso, there are completely
[00:23:32] different opinions about the camp.
[00:23:36] We can bring in the real conservative we've always deserved. I think
[00:23:39] we should do this. This
[00:23:42] is an election campaign for Frost. He is running
[00:23:45] for Congress in Texas's 23rd district.
[00:23:48] Last
[00:24:26] year, 29 people died in detention centers, the highest
[00:24:30] number in the past 20 years. This year, so far,
[00:24:33] 15 people have died. As part
[00:24:36] of the increased budget of US Immigration, $45
[00:24:40] billion has been allocated to detention centers. The plan
[00:24:44] is to provide space for 93,000 people by
[00:24:47] November. This includes converting these buildings near
[00:24:51] El Paso so that they can accommodate
[00:24:55] 8,000 people. These warehouses in this
[00:24:58] desert, more buildings across
[00:25:02] the country, truly demonstrate the industrialization
[00:25:05] of the government's immigration
[00:25:08] policies.
[00:25:15] The detention of immigrants has always been part of immigration laws.
[00:25:18] I am for detention.
[00:25:42] Regarding this new policy
[00:25:46] of converting warehouses for holding people,
[00:25:50] doesn't this raise a red flag for you?
[00:25:53] I'm sure that the same standards
[00:25:57] will be observed in all centers.
[00:25:59] The fact that the Trump
[00:26:03] administration believes that warehouses are places where human
[00:26:06] beings can be held for a considerable
[00:26:09] period indicates an extremely cruel
[00:26:13] and inhuman treatment. What about people who
[00:26:16] entered this country illegally? Don't you think
[00:26:19] they should be immediately expelled? If
[00:26:22] their only crime was crossing the border without identification
[00:26:26] documents, I think there should be a process for them
[00:26:29] to legalize their status and be able to stay
[00:26:33] here. We contacted US Immigration. They
[00:26:36] did not respond to us. The White House said
[00:26:40] that the President's first priority has been to deport
[00:26:44] illegal foreign criminals from the country and that
[00:26:48] they have the safest border in US history.
[00:26:51] They said that new agreements with local police represent
[00:26:54] an unprecedented level of cooperation and that local
[00:26:58] officials should want to cooperate with federal law enforcement
[00:27:01] to keep neighborhoods safe. President Trump has appointed
[00:27:05] a new Secretary of Homeland Security and has said that US Immigration
[00:27:09] can use more flexibility, but billions of dollars
[00:27:12] are also being spent on building new facilities and hiring
[00:27:16] more personnel. US Immigration has deported about half
[00:27:20] a million people from the country to date in Donald Trump's
[00:27:24] second presidential term. President Trump's commitment to implementing
[00:27:27] policies of mass detention and deportation of immigrants
[00:27:31] continues unabated, which means millions
[00:27:35] of people face fear and
[00:27:38] an uncertain
[00:27:39] future.
[00:27:42] This is a program that many Americans continue to support.
[00:27:46] In Minnesota, US
[00:27:49] Immigration ended its operations after
[00:27:53] 4,000 arrests. Thousands of people
[00:27:56] are no longer in hiding, and one family
[00:28:00] was reunited. No,
[00:28:04] my
[00:28:05] dear.
[00:28:12] After 13 days in detention, Javier
[00:28:15] has been released. A judge will decide a few months later
[00:28:18] whether he can stay in the US with his family or
[00:28:22] not. How was it where
[00:28:24] you were? I'm
[00:28:26] going to talk about it now, but it wasn't a good
[00:28:29] experience. How do you feel about
[00:28:33] being back with your family? Well, because they are my
[00:28:37] whole life. I'm very
[00:28:40] happy now, but I have to wear an electronic
[00:28:44] ankle monitor, which I don't like because
[00:28:46] I feel like it
[00:28:48] restricts me.
[00:28:51] Like millions of other undocumented immigrants, Javier
[00:28:55] may also be deported from the US, because President
[00:28:59] Trump is fulfilling his promise to crack down on immigrants. We
[00:29:36] ourselves had sheep when the lake had water.
[00:29:40] We had 200 sheep. Now we have
[00:29:43] 200 sheep. When the lake had water,
[00:29:46] it was abundant. You can see
[00:29:49] a drop of rainwater for these camels.
[00:29:53] Now there is no dry water. The lake is in a
[00:29:56] bad state for its people. Once upon a time, the lake
[00:30:00] this week.
[00:30:25] Greetings to you, welcome to a short news segment. Iranian Foreign
[00:30:29] Minister Abbas Araghchi says that as a result of ongoing talks
[00:30:33] with Qatari mediators, Iran's proposed seven-day plan has now
[00:30:37] been reduced to two days, such that if the US meets
[00:30:40] Iran's conditions on the first day, the Strait of Hormuz will
[00:30:44] be reopened on the second day. These remarks by Mr. Araghchi coincide
[00:30:47] with the targeting of several other oil tankers in the Persian
[00:30:51] Gulf, including one carrying Qatari gas, which
[00:30:55] has faced widespread condemnation. Manouchehr Mottaki, Foreign Minister.