Trump's immigration crackdown targets Washington restaurants

In a popular pizzeria in Washington at the beginning of May there was a deployment of armed officials from the US Department of Homeland Security. The aim of the raid was to control work permits or the capture of illegal immigrants without identification papers. The incident caused great uncertainty among the employees and raised questions about the legal basis of such measures. Also, since there was no search warrant. Only later did officials r…

Armed immigration agents who stormed by surprise in Pupatella, a fashionable pizzeria in the U.S. capital, in search of irregular employees left empty-handed but left a trail of fear.

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Trump's immigration crackdown targets Washington restaurants

When armed immigration agents made a surprise visit earlier this month to Pupatella, a trendy pizzeria in the US capital's Dupont neighborhood, they may not have made any arrests, but they delivered a clear message.

Republican President Donald Trump, convinced that the U.S. is the victim of an invasion of foreigners, has made the fight against illegal immigration one of his priorities. “Officers of the Department of Homeland Security presented themselves first at our headquarters in Dupont (...) They had no court order or any kind of documentation, so they were rejected,” Natasha Neely, vice president of the Pupatella restaurants, told AFP, with several uni…