The co -founder of Whiz says that the Trump campaign in Chicago scares the delivery workers from the streets

The footage was remarkable: the food delivery factor stood with his electronic bicycle through a bridge in Chicago, which was chased by a cadre of armed federal agents. “Get it!” One screams, before the worker finally slides.

The viral clip has become a crowd point this week for the critics of the deportation machine for President Donald Trump, which spread to multiple American cities and washed away citizens in this process. For Mike Peregudov, co-founder of the E-Pike Service Whiz, it was an insect representation of workers in delivering the fear he described to his team for weeks in Chicago.

This is because the threat of its extraction by customs and border protection (CBP), the enforcement of immigration and customs (ICE), or one of many other agencies that help enhance management deportation numbers, is measurable in the special standards.

“The reason that the WHIZ fleet did not grow in Chicago last month,” PereGudov wrote in LinkedIn postWhere the clip participated. “It has become difficult to provide food in the city.”

Whiz is relatively new in Chicago, where it was only launched in the city a few months ago. But PereGudov told Techcrunch in an interview that the company’s fleet “grows very quickly” during the summer, that there are no bicycles on Earth in March to about 300 by the end of July.

This growth was encouraging the WHIZ mission of providing safe, reliable bicycles at reasonable prices for delivery workers. For years, many of these workers themselves had to rely on a MISH Mash from products With doubtful reliability, causing vehicles in some cities.

Dynamics changed in August when Trump threatened to send the National Guard forces to the city, according to Peregudov. He said that growth has not only stopped, but Whiz has lost about 8 % of her business since then. The threats of the National Guard, in addition to the ongoing snow raids, have led to a victory over the workforce in delivering food.

“They are afraid,” he said about the workers who returned bicycles to the Chicago office in Whiz. Whiz does not employ these economic workers; It only rents electronic bikes, which can be obtained by anyone who has a suitable determination, social security number and credit card.

With American citizens and permanent legitimate residents who were collected in similar raids throughout the country, Pergovov said this fear is shared by both documented and not documented immigrants.

“When a raid occurs, these people (detention) of the man, whatever it is, can,” he said. “When they understand that he is legally here, they will allow him to leave, but he will lose these two weeks.”

Immigration raids occur in most other cities where Whiz operates, including New York, San Francisco and Viladelphia. But these sites have so far succeeded in Trump’s military deployment, which provokes tension.

The company is also working in Washington, DC, where President Trump brought the National Guard forces. From the strange, Perigudov said that the work had already ended in the country’s capital.

He attributes that in a large part to the fact that, according to him, it appears that the police and federal agents are targeting delivery drivers who use gasoline bicycles without a license. This drives more delivery workers to Whiz and less organized electronic bikes.

The migrant himself, PereGudov moved away from commenting on management policies and actions. He said: “I came here using a talent visa, so it wasn’t stressful for me. It was easier than these men.”