Izzy Ramirez
L.A. TACO Neighborhood Guides: Chinatown
A stroll through Chinatown feels like slipping between the shifting planes of time and space. Here are our recommendations for places to eat and shop, along with a look into its dark history.
DAILY MEMO: Border Patrol Attack and Follow Community Watchers Home While We See A New Raid Approach Unfold
Border Patrol and ICE took at least 15 people from the Southland, mostly from Los Angeles, Compton, and Lynwood.
How a Typical Day of Border Patrol ‘Cluster Raids’ Plays Out in Southern California
As Border Patrol invades communities, Rapid Response networks try to prevent as many abductions as possible by monitoring federal activity.
DAILY MEMO: ICE Continues to Use CHP and Local Police Resources Despite California’s Sanctuary State Policy
Around 40 people were kidnapped from Santa Paula to Riverside, with more than half from the City of L.A. in the last three days. Plus, are ICE and CBP adjusting their strategy again?
Churches as Battlegrounds: ICE Agents Raid One Church, As Feds Prosecute Protestors at Another
During service, Border Patrol agents detained two men painting the exterior of a Christian church in Compton on January 17.
Bill Essayli Asks Public to Spread Misinformation to Southern California Rapid Response Networks
The OC Rapid Response Network noted a rise in "profane and harassing” phone calls "reflecting an intent to intimidate and disrupt” since First Assistant US Attorney Essayli shared his post.
DAILY MEMO: About Five Schools Went Into Lockdown Due To Immigration Raids in Anaheim
Memo asks police a question: If you're not allowed to interfere with Immigration enforcement, then why interfere at all with community responders and patrollers doing the protecting and serving you can't and wont do?
DAILY MEMO: ICE and Border Patrol Continue Shooting and Assaulting Southern Californian Immigrants, Citizens, Women and Minors
The assault by U.S. Federal agents continues in Southern California
DAILY MEMO: Ten-Year-Old Child, Gardeners, and Vendors, Among the More Than 88 Kidnapped in SoCal This Week
Memo answers the complicated question, “Isn’t it against the law now for ICE to be masked?”
DAILY MEMO: Over 20 Taken In L.A., As ICE Kidnaps Gardeners, Vendors, and the Unhoused From San Bernardino To Santa Barbara
In several instances, community members and observers made themselves known or began filming, causing agents to vacate the area.
