No sign on Sunday of Trump's large-scale national immigration raids: NPR

The roundup threatened by President Trump this weekend of undocumented immigrant families who sent migrants to many communities showed little sign of materialization on Sunday, the second time that rumors of an operation of scale against immigration fraud have failed.

Instead, in cities where rumors of collective raids swirled, many immigrants remained inside their homes, with anxiety turning into a migrant market and generally bustling trade corridors. and extremely quiet.

Meanwhile, defenders of immigrants across the country took to the streets to protest against the promised rally.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement would confirm no arrest, nor would immigrant rights activists.

"The ACLU has not heard of any raids today," NPR spokesperson Ruthie Epstein, deputy director of the American Civil Immigration Policy told NPR. Liberties Union.

Prior to Sunday, reports of attempted arrests of ICE in New York, New Jersey and Chicago were reported on the weekend. The New York Times reported that a mother and her daughters had been apprehended but that the family had been released immediately. But these actions seemed to be part of routine enforcement activities, unrelated to a massive raid operation.

Nevertheless, the fear that the CIE seized the migrants by surprise pushed many to hide on Sunday.

In Miami, one of the cities anticipating the repression of immigrants, a silent market fell on a market generally animated by an intense activity of merchants and purchases immigrants.

"People are clearly hiding in. If you look around you, the people who work are basically the only ones here, but the majority of our clients are immigrants, some with papers, some without papers, but they are all afraid, "says Yohanna. Gomez, a Honduran immigrant who is holding a booth in Central America on the market, told the WLRN.

A similar scene took place in the Sunset Park neighborhood in Brooklyn, usually animated by immigrants from Latin America, Asia and the Middle East. But on Sunday, the streets were noticeably quieter and the sellers seemed to have taken leave that day because of the threatened raids.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said Saturday that ICE had already tried to make arrests in the city, but without success.

Activists have been spread the word migrants not to open their doors if an immigration officer strikes, because they can not use force to enter a residence.

In Chicago, another city where federal immigration officials were waiting for raids, the streets of immigrant communities were rarer than usual Sundays. Mayor Lori Lightfoot spoke to residents of northern Chicago prior to the start of the raids.

"It's a community with a diversity of people from around the world," she said. "There were a lot of rumors", Lightfoot m said. "Hanging this sword over people's heads is causing great harm and trauma to entire households and communities."

The weekend operation was supposed to target immigrant families who were sent the latest removal orders after failing to appear in court. And senior administration officials claimed that many of the nearly 2,000 migrants in this category had ignored requests to surrender. President Trump initially organized the national raids for June before delaying the planned mass arrests to give Congress more time to prepare. amendments to the Federal Act on Asylum.

The American Civil Liberties Union, which represents four non-profit immigration legal aid groups, sued on Thursday for blocking raids, saying that although the Trump administration claimed the migrants had opportunity to appear in court, many had never received the documents because of letters sent to the wrong addresses, or when they arrived, the appearance requests did not contain specific dates or hours .

And so, according to the lawsuit, the allegedly targeted families never received the referral and did not appear in immigration court.

"Unless the Court imposes this obligation, thousands of people could be deported without ever being able to appear before a judge, as provided by the legal procedure clause and the immigration laws. ", wrote lawyer Melinda LeMoine in the pending trial. a decision of the judge.

Beth Fertig from WNYC contributed to this report.