In a attack at a rooftop company in northeastern Washington on Wednesday, federal immigration agents on the job made 37 arrests. At about 7:30 am, US immigration and customs protection ( ICE), homeland security studies, and customs and border protection agents arrived at Mt. Baker Roofing’s inventory in Bellingham, close to the Canadian border.
Witnesses described a dramatic scene in which military officials stormed the company. They arrived carrying their weapons and acting as though they were going to shoot us, as if we were thieves, according to Tomas Fuerte, in a conversation with the Cascadia Daily News.
” They escorted us into a room in the back of the constructing,” they said. They seized the names and photos of everyone who was undocumented and took them,” according to news organization AP.
Components, who has been a 12 year employee at Mt. Baker Roofing, claimed he had never seen anything quite like it. He claimed that two cars took the arrested staff away.
As part of an ongoing legal investigation into the immoral work of undocumented workers, ICE director David Yost stated in a declaration that the raid was carried out as part of a national search warrant. He claimed that those detained “fraudulently represented their immigration standing and submitted phony documentation and/or information to find work.”
Mt. Baker Roofing responded that it was “fully cooperating with the government while also making sure that our employees are treated pretty and politely by the law.”
In the United States, immigration protection has become a politically charged problem. In Donald Trump’s first 50 times as president, ICE detained 32, 809 persons, or 656 per day on average, more than double the figure from the previous month. Although these numbers far exceed those of the Biden leadership, they are still a long way from the large-scale arrests Trump when promised. In contrast to his second term, when factory and office raids were more frequent, new enforcement actions have been less significant.
Legal claims against companies are still uncommon, despite the fact that illegal workers are frequently subject to fines in companies.
