Texas district who swung on Trump grips with immigration interrupt after target bakery star-news.press/wp

Los Fresnos, Texas – Leonardo Baez and Bakery Nora Avila-Giel in Texas Los Fresnosa is a stop for many inhabitants to divide gossip over coffee and pick up cakes and pastries for birthdays, office parties or alone.

When the safety agents appeared in Abby’s bakery in February and arrested owners and eight employees, Los Fresnoa residents were shocked. Abby bakery does not use violent criminals and baez and avila-guel are not people bordering Czar Tom Homan calls “Worst than the worst” And says they are a priority for mass deportations.

“I was surprised because I know that they do not use the advantage of the people,” Esteban Rodriguez said, 43, after withdrew a bakery parking lot to reveal it closed. “It was more like helping people. They had nowhere to go, instead of those on the streets.”

Reaction in the city of 8,500 inhabitants can show restrictions on the support of the President Donald Trump immigration Shooting in most of the Latin regions of dashed fields of cotton, sugar and red grapefruit in which Republicans received gains in last year’s elections. Cameron Count was first voted by the President of GOP since 2004. years. For the neighboring County Starr it was For the first time since 1896.

Now, Beez and Avila-Guel, Mexican couple who are legal American permanent residents, could lose everything after being accused of concealing and drawing immigrants who were illegally illegally. It is a rare case in which business owners face criminal charges, not just a fine.

Los Fresnos, which is 90% Latino and counts the school district as his biggest employer, is on a semi-hour drive from the American-Mexican border. Hundreds of school bus drivers, painters, pensioners and parishers from the nearby Catholic Church come to Abby’s bakery every day. Customers with silver drawers and ties select pastries from a glass door cabinet.

Six Abby’s eight employees were in the United States about visitors, but none of the work permit had when the homeland investigation agents came to business February 12. February. The owners admitted that they knew that, according to the federal complaint.

The employees lived in a room with six beds and shared two bathrooms in the same building as a bakery, according to the Agency’s Agency.

BAEZ, 55 and Avila-Guel, 46, said they were not guilty. They sent questions to their lawyers, who mentioned that the workers were not kept against their will and there were no attempts to hide their presence, as a smuggler.

As green card holders, a couple could be deported if they were convicted. They have five children who are American citizens.

The bakery closed a few days after the arrest, drawing about 20 people to protest at a non-egriculture event.

Monsinjor Pedro Brussels of St. Cecilia often visited before early morning mass for the campechan, fluttering, crispy pastry dough layered with caramelized sugar. His routine was interrupted when the user immigration agents arrived in unmarked vehicles.

“The woman came here. She said,” Father, Father, take my brother, “Brussels said. The priest walked and saw agents use the zip links to tie the employees.

There is too much biparted support for deportation of people illegally and are convicted of a violent crime, with 82% in favor of an Associated Center Press-NORC to explore public affairs In January. Support is significantly softened for deportations of all people in the country illegally, with 43% in favor and 37% oppose.

Trump and Top Assisters repeatedly emphasize that deported criminals are. But how does Homan often say, others in the country illegally who are there when officials arrest criminals will also be deportedDeparture from the practice of biden administration.

So far Trump avoided a large scale Factory and office raids It was characterized by its first term and the Republican President George W. Bush. Scattered reports on smaller operations included recent arrests 37 people on a Roofing work in North Washington State.

LED says that in the Adutian gender made 32,809 arrests in due course 656, ie in relation to the daily average of 311 during the 12-month period ended at 30. September.

People with deep connections in their communities and there are no criminal records usually generate more sympathy.

Abby reopened after the owners were released on Bond.

Chela and Alicia Vega, two sisters in the 60s who had withdrawn from the school district and that they have known bakery owners for years, they were among customers who meet trays with pastries. Chela Vega said a couple once made a week from work to drive them to San Luis Potos in Mexico after their sister died. When a hurricane hit, Leonardo Baez reduced damaged trees without charging.

For Terri Sponder, 61, shopping in Abby is now political statement. “Everything now happens in our country, we need to find ways to protest,” she said.

Mark W. Milum, the manager of the city of Fresnos, said Abby’s is an important business that contributes to the income from property and sales tax on the annual municipal budget of $ 13 million.

Some customers just like products.

“Other bakers, they appear, aren’t they?” Ruth Zamora said, 65. “But when you leave there, it’s not the same.”