MIRAMAR, FLA. (WSVN) – After days of nonstop roundups of undocumented immigrants in South Florida, households lined up exterior the detention facilities in search of their family members.
In Miramar, dozens lined the sidewalk of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Workplace with their papers in palms.
Roberto Carrillo, who took his place in line early Wednesday morning, stated many like him are nervous and in worry of what might come subsequent on the difficulty of immigration.
“It appears like worry,” he stated in Spanish.
Carrillo added that his paperwork course of is lengthy, however he stays hopeful that all of it goes by means of efficiently.
Carrillo stated he witnessed ICE brokers detaining individuals standing in entrance of him that had been additionally making the road.
“They took them,” he stated in Spanish.
One other lady, Jaritza, who didn’t need her face proven, stated Marcos, her husband from Nicaragua, entered the Miramar workplace for an everyday appointment and by no means got here again out.
“And we now have a son,” she stated emotionally in Spanish.
Jaritza stated she is frightened that she’s going to by no means see her beloved Marcos once more.
“He doesn’t have a legal report, not even a ticket,” stated Jaritza in Spanish.
Jaritza added her husband works two jobs and has a piece allow. The household by no means thought this is able to occur, as they believed they had been doing the whole lot the precise method.
Others expressed concern over the thought of ICE brokers raiding faculties and taking undocumented kids from their lecture rooms.
However faculty district officers in Miami-Dade and Broward counties have vowed to guard their college students from any such raid.
“Nicely, to begin with, our workers would ask questions like, ‘Beneath what authority are you right here? And what courtroom ordered paperwork or extra paperwork that you’ll have that really offers you the authority to speak to the coed or to take away the coed from our college? If the principal wants extra assist, they may name our authorized counsel,” stated Broward County Colleges Superintendent Dr. Howard Hepburn.
As for Miami-Dade Public Colleges, officers stated they are going to be following the identical protocol and reiterated that the security of their college students stays their prime precedence.
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