Kansas City Metro Immigrant Rights Groups Decry El Toro Loco Raid

Our progressive friends would like to call these "Latino Civil Rights Groups" but they only represent one facet of the community . . . Even if it's STILL the fastest growing. 

What's more important to understand is that the La Migra raid was INSTANTLY POLITICIZED and sparked a ton of conversation even if the size of the roundup wasn't really that impressive. 

In the end less than a dozen people were nabbed . . . In much the same way some of the more unbalanced TKC trolls demand attention for a semantic debate over Prez Obama's tenure as the "Deporter-In-Chief" vs. reasonable doubt in MAGA's ability to achieve those same numbers . . . It's a hilarious argument inasmuch as some of the more dysfunctional MAGA true-believers are way too invested in defending a narrative but conveniently forget about Mexico paying for a smallish wall that has been nearly forgotten.

To be clear, we'll stipulate that MAGA rhetoric and border crackdowns are far more satisfying to strident anti-immigrant activists BUT anything short of packing people in trains running day & night won't resolve EASILY MANIPULATED ANXIETY OVER MILLIONS OF ILLEGAL/UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS IN THE US . . . In fairness and with what we hope is genuine compassion for everyone, hate/fear of undocumented/illegals is mostly an understandable reaction to increasingly diverse, complex contemporary life amid constantly shifting global macroeconomics that are proving successful in erasing the American middle-class and much of what Midwesterners understand about their circumstances.

Inconvenient facts that are fun for everybody . . . Amid deserved political duress, Prez Biden's administration double-crossed promises about helping to maintain & add onto that sketchy MAGA wall . . . AND . . . Prez Trump is currently tiptoeing around guest worker programs and "amnesty lite" that will make it easier for more migrants to work in much the same way the Reagan Amnesty opened the borders and taught smarter people to ignore the politics of the immigration debate and follow the money.

However . . . 

Without the conversation there's no fun . . . And so we enjoy immigration flexing just like we love hip-hop . . . Because it's mostly boisterous tough talk by fancy dudes that has an exceptional rhythm but shouldn't be taken too seriously . . .   

Three organizations that offer services supporting local Latino and immigrant families — including Advocates for Immigrant Rights and Reconciliation (AIRR), the Central Area Betterment Association and El Centro — threw their support behind detainees and their affected loved ones as questions regarding their whereabouts linger.

AIRR reported Thursday evening that three individuals had been released from ICE custody, one was being detained in Oklahoma and the locations of the others were still unknown.

The city of Lenexa said its police department was not involved in the raids but that it believed in community-oriented policing of all residents, “regardless of immigration status.”

(A more interesting quote from the group . . .) 

“These raids come as part of a broader pattern of targeting immigrant workers under the guise of enforcement, further traumatizing communities already vulnerable to exploitation,” AIRR said in its statement. “We stand in solidarity with the workers and demand answers regarding the conduct of HSI agents and the basis for these actions.” 

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com links . . .

Workers arrested in ICE raid at Mexican restaurant in Lenexa

Videos and images shared with the Post show ICE agents arresting workers at El Toro Loco locations in Lenexa and Kansas City, Kansas, on Wednesday.

Groups call for support of immigrant families after KC-area restaurant raids

ICE raids at Toro Loco locations in Kansas City and Lenexa detain immigrants. Local groups demand answers and call for immigrant family support.

Homeland Security claims ICE raided Kansas restaurants to 'rescue victims of human trafficking'

Local group Advocates for Immigrant Rights and Reconciliation, or AIRR KC, says that federal agents raided two locations of El Toro Loco restaurants in Lenexa and Kansas City

At least 3 released after immigration raids at restaurants in Lenexa and Kansas City, Kansas

The immigrant-supporting group Advocates for Immigration Rights and Reconciliation confirmed Thursday night that at least three of the up to 12 people detained in raids the day before had been released.

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