{"id":11112,"date":"2025-08-04T14:07:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T12:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/?p=11112"},"modified":"2026-06-03T02:17:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T01:17:43","slug":"die-neue-abschiebungsmaschinerie-in-new-york-trumps-zweite-offensive-und-die-rueckkehr-der-angst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/die-neue-abschiebungsmaschinerie-in-new-york-trumps-zweite-offensive-und-die-rueckkehr-der-angst\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Deportation Machinery in New York \u2013 Trump\u2019s Second Offensive and the Return of Fear"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since the beginning of Trump\u2019s second term, the atmosphere in New York City has changed noticeably. Not through sudden mass raids, as many had feared, but through a bureaucracy that has lost its face. In the midst of what is probably the world\u2019s most diverse metropolis, the US government is relying on an almost silent strategy: they no longer search \u2013 they let people come to them. The reporting obligations at the federal building on Federal Plaza have long become synonymous with fear. Anyone who, as a migrant, has an appointment at the immigration office or is called to court can disappear from one moment to the next. The statistics confirm what observers and those affected have long known: more than half of those detained had no criminal record whatsoever. Nevertheless, the numbers have exploded. In just five months after Trump took office, more than 2,300 people were arrested in the region \u2013 double the number from the period before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What is particularly perfidious is the discrepancy between public rhetoric and actual practice. While the administration continues to talk about \u201cpriority for serious criminals\u201d and simulates a martial stance with published mug shots, in reality it increasingly affects people with no criminal record at all. The logic is simple: anyone who cannot prove legal status ends up in the crosshairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The face of this offensive mostly remains invisible. Behind the case numbers are people, families, biographies. More and more often, lawyers report cases in which even long-term tolerated, well-integrated or seriously ill persons are sent to detention centers \u2013 often hundreds of kilometers away, without access to lawyers or family. The deportation machinery now also grabs those whose fate was previously decided by leeway, humanity or simply a lack of resources. The system is striking: those in the wrong place at the wrong time \u2013 such as an innocent relative during a raid or a witness at court \u2013 are taken away. The agency calls this \u201ccollateral arrests.\u201d For those affected, it is a shock to their very existence. Even long-term residents who demonstrably pose no danger are now targeted, because the Trump administration is enforcing a new definition of \u201cillegality\u201d \u2013 one that knows no exceptions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n