‘Don’t open that door’: ‘Red card’ that helps migrants endangered by deportation from America – BBC News in Serbian

« When I wear it with you I feel safer. »

Veronika Velaskez, Immigrant without official documents with Philippines living in Los Angeles, always wear a small red card in the wallet.

Known as a card « for knowing our own rights, » he reminds people like Veronica to their constitutional rights and what they should do when they are dealing with the agents of the Immigration Service and Customs (ICE) in the United States.

It was made by the Center for Immigrant Legal Resources (ILRC) almost two decades ago and is now available in 19 languages.

However, since Donald Tramp came to duty 20. January promising to implement « the largest deportation in the history of the country« The demand for him jumped in heaven.

« From the presidential elections 5. November, we received requests for a total of nine million cards, which is more than in the previous 17 years together, » ILRC says.

Rights and directions

All in the United States, regardless of their immigration status, the Constitution of the country guarantees certain rights.

ILRC’s red cards give examples that people who threaten deportation can be invited to these rights in real-life situations, as when they appear in the ICE agents.

Cardboard proposes calling on the right to silence from the fifth amendment, which protects individuals from coercion to increase themselves, to refuse to respond to immigration agents.

It also advises not to play an agent into your home if it does not carry an order signed by a judge, which would violate the fourth amendment (which protects people from « unreasonable » searches and seizure of government).

Its color refers to red cards used by judges on football matches to turn off players and send them out of the field.

California ILRC says he came to this idea in 2007., after a series of raids on illegal workers who « terrorized the community ».

The organization provides cards with non-profit organizations and companies to share them in schools, churches, clinics or food banks, and lawyers who work with migrants and asylum seekers.

Anyone can print them by taking a template from the website.

The cardboard is designed to have one side in English, and the other in the mother tongue.

It can be printed in Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Creole, Russian, Ukrainian, Vietnamese and Chinese, among other languages, emphasizing the diversity of immigrant populations in the United States.

No documents in 2022. There were 11 million immigrants in the United States, according to the analysis of the PJU research center.

This number is 23 percent of all immigrants in the United States and 3.3 percent of the total population.

About four million originates from Mexico, as well as nearly two million people born in the so-called Northern Triangle of Central America (El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala).

There are also large communities that come from other continents.

Some 1.7 million unauthorized residents were born in Asia, among them 725,000 from India and 375,000 from China.

Some 375,000 people were 2022. also either from Africa, which is an increase of 100,000 from 2019. years.

For many of these undocumented immigrants, activists say that realization of rights from the Red Card can be a difference between staying in the country and deportation.

« It’s a simple tool, but it can have a great influence, » says Dalia Zetina from the center of the Dream Project from the Coastal University in Newport Beach, California.

« He also helps a person who carries him to feel safer when he leaves the house or go to work, » she says for the BBC Mundo.

« You’ll probably get nervous if the agent stops you. And that’s why you just need to get a card and write it out aloud or to hand him directly, » she says.

The center for which she works shared 700 cardboard in the community, in Spanish, Tagalog and Vietnamese.

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I call her ‘how to avoid arrest’

The officials of the Administration Tramps have sharply criticized the activities of non-governmental organizations and volunteers, saying that they help immigrants without legal residence to « resist » ICE agents.

« They call him ‘a record to know his own rights’, I call it ‘how to avoid arrest’, » says Tom Homan, the tramp « border emperor », which is in charge of deportation surgeries.

« Nothing will stop us in the deportation of criminal immigrants. We will do that job with or without your help, » he told Fox News.

The decline in immigration was one of the tramp’s main election promises and, since he entered duty, raids on homes and workplaces were amplified across the United States.

The new administration used social networks to publish information on efforts.

White House, Ministry of Homeland Security (DHS) and ICE announce pictures of people who are arrested, sometimes immediately before they will be boarded on a plane, with chains on their hands and legs.

The American government says these works are in the interests of national security and return home « criminals ».

However, the figures reached NBC News show that more than 40 percent arrested did not have criminal records.

He discovered that from 4,422 people arrested by ICE in the first two weeks of February, 1,800 (41 percent) was not convicted or against them were not raised by active indictments.

The fear of meeting immigration agent spread like a fire among undocumented immigrants.

In this atmosphere, such simply tools such as the red card can make a huge difference.

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