US EditionImmigration Raids Intensify, with Hundreds of Arrests and Tense Moments Across LA Area
- Federal agents conducted ramped-up immigration raids across multiple Los Angeles locations including a Home Depot, a church parking lot, and a fitness center on Wednesday, leading to numerous detainments and arrests.
- These raids followed President Donald Trump's 2025 pledge for the largest deportation operation in US history, intensified by Stephen Miller ordering daily ICE arrests at around 3,000 people.
- The raids sparked protests in Southern California, resulting in curfews, over 200 arrests mainly for curfew violations and unlawful assembly, and significant vandalism affecting more than 23 businesses.
- A leader advocating for immigrant rights reported that around 300 individuals have been detained in California since last week, describing the situation as terrorizing communities. She also highlighted that undocumented immigrants added close to $90 billion to government revenues in 2023.
- Mayors and faith leaders denounced the raids as provocations, highlighting the fear caused among families and workers who feel unfairly targeted while supporting their communities economically and socially.
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“There they grabbed 25.” Joaquín, an undocumented Mexican immigrant, points to a corner of the West Lake Home Depot car park, west of downtown Los Angeles. He talks about people like him, undocumented immigrants, detained in one of the raids carried out by Donald Trump’s government that has unleashed a week of protests in the second largest city of the United States. It’s something you could see in the Home Depot – large stores of hardware, gard…
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The Straits Times‘Terrifying’: Migrants fret over LA raids, but still look for work
When immigration officers leapt out of unmarked vans and ran towards undocumented men waiting by a Home Depot in Los Angeles, the day laborers scattered, terrified at the prospect of arrest and deportation. "People were hiding under wood, in the trash, wherever they could find a little hole," said Oscar Mendia, a Guatemalan who estimated
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'Terrifying': Migrants fret over LA raids, but still look for work
When immigration officers leapt out of unmarked vans and ran towards undocumented men waiting by a Home Depot in Los Angeles, the day laborers scattered, terrified at the prospect of arrest and deportation.
Migrants in Los ngeles claim that they live in fear in front of raids, but are forced to work for necessity.
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