Ankur Desai
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
We get word of a raid, a report of labourers on a roof and Border Patrol agents surrounding a house.
We arrive to find two activists here among neighbours who filmed it.
They had a sniper resting on the front of this van here, pointing up at the roof when I came.
I came in from that side.
They were laying down, the workers.
There was no threats were being made.
Nobody had a weapon out.
They were laying down.
Their hands were in sight.
What went through your mind when you saw that?
The border patrol says its agents were carrying out enforcement operations and several men ran up onto the roof who were then taken into custody.
The fear of these raids is leaving a community in lockdown.
Abigail's Mexican restaurant is one of the few still serving.
Her mum Sandra has built a life and business here for the last two decades, but, like many, she's worried for friends and family.
We pick up the pursuit again.
More border agents in blacked-out vans.
They head downtown.
And there, Mr. Trump's frontman for the crackdown, Commander Greg Bovino.