"People are going around really scared," said a 33-year-old woman who reported some kind of raid at a Riverbank construction site last week. She wanted to withhold her name because she does not have legal permission to work in the United States.
She said "people started shouting" that an immigration raid was under way. "The carpenters started to run," she said.
"Really scared" ---- that's kind of a joke. Hyperbole for sure. No Mexican is really scared to go back home.
When someone shouts "la migra", those running aren't usually the sharpest minds around. It's like when a border agent enters a restaurant to get something to eat and some people jump up from their tables or throw down their bus-boy trays and take off running --- they just look pretty suspicious.
Those same carpenters who are taking jobs from American carpenters by working for less. To hell with them.