martes, 10 de junio de 2025

Editorial: Donald Trump's Fascist State and the Immigration Policy of Terror in Los Angeles

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By Armando García Álvarez

The City of Los Angeles, a sanctuary for immigrant communities, has become in recent days an epicenter of fear and persecution, not because of crime or chaos, but because of the deliberate execution of a repressive immigration policy, promoted with ideological fervor by Donald Trump. In this editorial we denounce the fascist character of these policies, which undermine human rights, dignity, and the very lives of millions of residents.

Under the discourse of "law and order," Trump has transformed immigration enforcement into a machine of terror. ICE agents patrol streets, enter Latino neighborhoods, question people about their accent, their skin color, or simply their zip code. The criminalization of the immigrant—a central tenet of fascist rhetoric—has permeated deeply into his speeches, executive orders, and propaganda apparatus.

Los Angeles, with its majority Latino population, has been one of the main targets. Divided families, traumatized children, massive raids without warrants: this is not a free country, it is a regime of selective persecution. Through the systematic deportation and dehumanization of the immigrant, the Trumpist state seeks to consolidate social control based on fear.

This policy of "soft ethnic cleansing," disguised as legal compliance, has alarming historical parallels. As in the fascist regimes of the twentieth century, an internal enemy (in this case, the undocumented immigrant) is identified, blamed for all social ills, and the state apparatus is mobilized to expel him, mark him, and silence him. This is not a rhetorical exaggeration: it is an accurate description of what is happening on the streets of Los Angeles today.

Faced with this panorama, symbolic declarations of sanctuary cities are not enough. Organized political resistance is needed, from local governments to social movements. It is time to call a spade a spade: this is an authoritarian attempt to reconfigure America's identity by excluding millions. Silence or passivity, in this context, is equivalent to complicity.

History will judge this nation not by its speeches of freedom, but by its treatment of the most vulnerable. Today, in Los Angeles and across the country, a battle is raging for the soul of American democracy. And in that battle, Trump's immigration fascism cannot, should not, prevail.

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