
After Donald Trump became the 47th President of America, local law enforcement agencies on Monday started massive action against illegal immigrants. In this connection, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested four Bangladeshis in New York.
Bangladesh’s leading daily Prothom Alo reported on Wednesday that the four Bangladeshis were arrested by ICE in the Fulton area of ​​the Brooklyn borough of New York.
According to reports, illegal immigrants are living in ‘fear’ after Trump took oath and passed a series of executive orders related to immigration.
The newspaper reported that ‘It has been observed that the roads and restaurants in Bengali dominated areas, which earlier used to be crowded with people, are now almost completely empty. Security arrangements have already been strengthened.’
The report quoted Khadija Muntaha Ruba, a law enforcement officer who works with immigrants in New York, as saying that the undocumented Bangladeshis were arrested while they were ‘wandering’ in the area.
Muntaha advised Bangladeshis to remain alert and said that they should cooperate if members of any law enforcement agency interrogate them. They should stop working with someone else’s work permit. In this difficult time, they should not get involved in unnecessary police or other disputes and troubles.
In an executive order signed soon after he took office on January 20, Trump emphasized that over the past four years, the previous administration ‘invited’ an unprecedented flood of illegal immigration into the US.
It said, "Millions of illegal aliens crossed our borders or were allowed to come directly to the United States on commercial flights and settle in American communities, in violation of long-standing federal laws."
The number of Bangladeshis coming to America has increased rapidly in the last few decades. Several recent reports have shown that Bangladeshis are one of the fastest growing Asian ethnic groups in New York City.