Ankit Jain

I talked with someone who full, you know, illegal asylum status, was working as a delivery driver, is basically too afraid to even leave his house, has barely left his house in the past two weeks because...

he's worried that if he does, he'll get picked up by ICE.

And obviously not making any money is really having a hard time making ends meet.

And there was a viral video the other day of a Latino delivery driver who was tackled and violently arrested on 14th Street in DC, which is a pretty popular area of the city.

And it turns out that person had full legal status.

They had to release him eventually after they figured out he had legal status.

But first, he had to be violently assaulted and detained for several hours to days before they were willing to release him.

People are really scared in the Latino community.

I think people across the country don't realize just how vibrant and strong our Latino community is here in D.C.

and how strong our immigrant community is in general.

Right.

We have the Ethiopian community.

We have a lot of other people who are immigrants and we're scared right now.

And

It is, as Council Member Nadeau mentioned, probably the worst part about this is the loss of trust in our local government, in our police, with the Latino community, where

they don't know if they can report a crime anymore because they're worried that if they do, they might get their documentation checked and potentially get arrested.

And we are, DC, we have laws restricting how our local police and our local government works with ICE.

But the reality is that in this moment with everything that Trump is doing, we don't know what exactly the, how much that law is being enforced and whether it will be enforced in the future.

And so I always encourage people, if you are having

emergency situation, please call 911.