Music does not play in Spanish: Many immigrants say they have new leadership rules

Outside a evangelical church on the outskirts of Tamba in the state of Florida, you are waiting for half of the migratory families at the amazing Sunday heat. Men wear bright and colorful shirts while women wear traditional Guatemalan clothes. The service ended, but no one rushes to their cars. Instead, they wait for horse riding to the home.

The reason is simple: fear. Since Florida granted the highways patrol officers the authority to detention of drivers based on the state of migration during routine traffic stopping, obtaining a calculated threat to many immigrants across the state. Each trip – to work, to the church, to the grocery store – is now carrying the possibility of detention, regardless of the legal situation.

This has led to new unwritten rules for the road.

Rule 1: There are no foreign flags, stickers, or advertisements in Spanish language on the car.

"When companies (advertisements) have in Spanish, as you know, it is a great goal," Ashley Ambrosio, 19, says. She is an American citizen who leads the parish people today. Rule 2: Try to ride with the people you know and trust. They should also be people They are legally in the country.

Ambrocio moves to Rule 3: No music in Spanish. "If you are going to work, move the radio to the English radio," You advise people. "English music. Some rural music, so they cannot know that it is a Spanish car there."

Ambrosio’s father, the priest in this church, was deported to Guatemala, after 30 years of living in the United States, who had no criminal record.

His daughter says that everyone is here, regardless of the state of migration, on the edge of the abyss. Everyone stands outside the church says they know someone who has been recently stopped Florida Highway patrol He is now facing deportation.

A colleague of Church Maria, who asked to block her last name because her brother was recently held and feared revenge, with other rules. Al Qaeda 3 says, she says: Do not drive white goods trucks like those that workers usually use because they, she says, have stopped a lot.

This reaches the informal base 4: Do not wear a uniform or a hat in your car. Do not take off you are on your way to cleaning, landscape, or construction function.

She adds that these precautions are not enough to make people work. Maria has a construction company and says that many immigrants are afraid of driving anymore. Only this morning I received a call: one of the work sites where its company works has reached a complete stop. "More than 30 people did not appear," She says. "you tell me."

The lawsuit filed with regard to the recent ice raids in Los Angeles challenges what human rights lawyers claim that they are arresting racism and arrest by federal agents.

In the workplace and while stopping traffic. Among the prosecutors are the daytime workers and others who were captured at bus stations while traveling from or from their jobs.

Adam Isaacon, with the non -profit human rights office in Washington in Latin America, believes that the Trump administration has been trying to normalize the type of enforcement for a long time in border societies. "It is clear that it is a goal from this administration, to bring this border vigilance to the unrelated immigration to the entire country."

ISAACSON refers to the absolute workforce now devoted to enforcement of immigration as evidence. "If you add all the judicial states that stipulate the enforcement of local law, the places where the National Guard and the army are now playing a supportive role, and all regular law enforcement agencies, from the drug control department to the vibrant tax authority with this, you are approaching 100,000 people who can spread it throughout the country," It is estimated.

NPR communicated with the enforcement of migration and customs and to the Pleworida Highway patrol several times to comment on their criteria for traffic stops, and did not receive any response.

ISAACSON says the restrictions imposed on migrants will have traces of ripples in the country’s economy. "The result is, if people are not able to shop, if people cannot work … that all money drains the economy."

If travel becomes locally complicated for immigrants, travel between states is more complicated.

On the Amtrak train from New York City to South Florida, a Colombia immigrant tells me that he was released in the United States two years ago. In other words, he was granted temporary acceptance, pending a court hearing. When he first arrived, he lived in a migrant shelter in New York City. After that, he obtained a work permit and was able to find a job on a farm outside Orlando. Manhattan Immigration Court appointments, because that was his first place of residence in the United States

He asked to use his first first match, because he is afraid that he will be harassed even though he has a legal situation in the United States, and for this reason he is making a 22 -hour train trip instead of a three -hour trip: he is concerned that immigration officials may be held.

"I feel more comfortable on the train, no one bothering you here," He says. This is not the first time that the long travel of train has done. "I came to the United States ride over the shipping train," He says. "Along the way to Mexico. In amtrak, joking, it’s different: you can get a seat, and don’t have to stick to the highest charging car.

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