ICE is a federal law enforcement agency that says their mission is to protect the United States from cross-border crime and undocumented immigration that threaten the public. “ICE” stands for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Donald Trump came back into office January 20, 2025 and started taking actions as soon as possible. He promised that he would start one that had the largest deportations in history.
Donald Trump spoke on immigrants many times and it is obvious that he is definitely trying to get rid of them all. He has said that they are “Taking our jobs”, “They’re all rapists”, and “illegal aliens”.
Since then, he has signed a series of executive orders trying to make changes on the current immigration policies.
He has also said that he wants to end birthright citizenship. Birthright citizenship is when a pregnant immigrant from another country comes to this country and gives birth here, the baby is automatically given citizenship.
Spreading the Word
Many people themselves have started taking action to make sure everyone is aware of everything happening. They started releasing footage of where ICE could possibly be so the undocumented people can avoid those areas.
Many celebrities spoke on this topic talking about how we should all come together as a community to fight back and protest against this. There is a video and Selena Gomez is seen crying about the situation. She doesn’t like the idea of the innocent undocumented people having to leave as well because they come here for an opportunity they obviously didn’t have in their country.
Influencers are seen exposing the areas of where ICE could be at so their people are informed and aren’t taken away just for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
The Effect
Many people are affected by this because they are afraid they will be next and don’t want to be next. Many families are staying inside of their homes and avoiding going outdoors. Even their own children don’t want them going to work because they don’t want them to risk it.
When the situation was first put out to the public there weren’t many people outside doing their daily activities.
These people should be able to go out there freely without the fear of being deported back to their country. They all left their origin countries for a reason and it was for a better future here in the USA and they sacrificed everything just to get here, they left their own family behind for a better opportunity.
Another thing people have been doing to fight against this is setting up protests.
Boycotting
Many companies have been boycotted because they showed their support to Donald Trump and even mass deportations that have been going on. Even celebrities and bands are not getting shown support anymore because of the same exact reason.
Companies like Target, Coca-Cola, Amazon, Sam’s Club, Starbucks and so forth. Many Hispanics, immigrant groups, and other people that are against the mass deportations have tried their best to avoid these kinds of companies because as they say:
“If these companies are not willing to support us, they don’t need our business”.
There have been Mexican celebrities that have been exposed to supporting Trump and faced backlash, like Banda MS, Grupo Frontera, and Edición Especial.
Protests
There has been protest started all over the world and there is small ones then theres big ones. People started these protests so they can get the attention of many people to stop all of these mass deportations.
Protestors show up with their posters and come up with all of these different creative phrases. They especially show up with big beautiful Mexican flags. Participating in a protest is a great way to come together with people that agree with your statement.
There’s many protests all over the country like one in Texas. Not too long ago there was a huge protest in Los Angeles with a lot of people joining in.
Los Angeles Protest
A large protest was organized in Los Angeles to rally against the Trump policies of immigration. There were thousands of people at the protest. Thousands of protesters showed up to the protest with their flags and their posters with many different kinds of slogans.
All of the protesters agreed on meeting up at LA’s Historic Olvera Street then would march together to the City Hall.
By the afternoon, there were thousands of protesters gathered together already. They ended up making their way onto U.S. Highway 101, the highway running from Los Angeles to Puget Sound in Washington (also known as El Camino Real), which caused lots of traffic for the cars. All lanes ended up being blocked by all of the protesters standing and protesting loudly. It became a huge problem to the point where the authorities had to go and get them off the freeway.
It is said that it took the police over five hours to get them off the road. After this event had happened there were many videos circulating around all over social media.