Huntington Park, California, a working class community of over 50,000 people recently felt that it has a bull on its back Ramp-up raid by immigration and customs,
According to the city, the city is 95.6% Latin, and 45% of residents are unlike.
Jonathan Sanbriya, a member of the city council, who grew up at Huntington Park, says the local community is scared.
“We are a goal for them because we know they are stereotypes and they are racially profiled us. And they are targeting those who look like me,” he said.
Sanbriya took a CBS news crew for the city’s main commercial pacific bullet. Once the center of the city was very quiet.
“I remember Prashant Bulleward was always packed, but since raids are going on, it is a ghost city,” said long -resident Jose Lommi. “I don’t even know how these places are alive.”
Some business owners are trying to provide customers a sense of security to bring back to their store.
Sanbariya said about a store, “There are people operating business, but now their doors are closed. They are saying, ‘Hey, knock, tell us that you are here so that we can open the door, serve for you,” Sambriya said about a store.
Ice agents will require warrant to enter.
“We look at stores that are open, but they live with locked gates. So it is another way of shops that protect themselves and their customers from unwanted interactions with ice,” Sambriya said.
A woman who runs a bride shop, keeping her doors closed, told CBS News that the business was “very bad”.
“The reality is that people are afraid to come in. People are afraid to take,” said Sanbriya. “Some people who are coming, feel that it is being locked, that the owners of the business they are doing what they can protect them.”
Asked what effect it is having on the economy, Sanbriya said, “It is very clear that our sales tax number is going to be much less than those, which means that it is going to be less money to provide services for our community.”
As Latest CBS News PollEarlier this year, the exile program of the Trump administration was overthrown. But the approval between the Republican is more. Many of them say that immigrants who illegally enter the country should be deported. Sanbriya disagrees.
“When we look at many different sectors of our economy, the reason for this we are capable of keeping it (prices) at a low rate, as it is unspecified.”
“I think the community, seeing that we are behind them, it makes them feel safe,” Sanbriya said.
