Memo Torres

Memo Torres is the Director of Engagement and multimedia journalist for the James Beard award-winning L.A. Taco. He is also the host of the Daily Memo and writes for Apple Maps’ ‘Where Memo Torres Eats in L.A.’ You can see him on Netflix’s Taco Chronicles and Pressure Cooker. You can hear him on KCRW’s ‘Good Food’ occasionally. He was a finalist for the Ruben Salazar Award for Latino journalists and a former third-generation landscaper.
DAILY MEMO: Democrats Help Approve Temporary DHS Funding, Demand ICE ‘Behaves’
LAPD Chief McDonnell is laughed at by attendees at the L.A. Police Commission while L.A. City council member, Hugo Martinez, leads a rebuke in the L.A. city council meeting against McDonnell's refusal to enforce the new state laws against agents and law enforcement wearing masks. Meanwhile, ICE continues to operate while CBP is missing.
DAILY MEMO: ‘They’re Going To Kill Him,’ Toddler Says, As Border Patrol Arrests Her Father
Today, even without the usual border patrol raiders, ICE, on their own, managed to pick up around 18 people, mostly targeted attacks, including a huge raid in Monterey Park across the street from Mark Keppel High School around 7:30 a.m. this morning, where, reportedly, 8 Asian folks were taken in a large operation that included ICE and HSI agents, as students were being dropped off at school across the street.
DAILY MEMO: Border Patrol Continues To Follow, Point Their Guns, and Detain Community Watchers
While L.A. showed out for the General Strike, with what felt like 100,000 people marching for three hours from downtown L.A. to Boyle Heights and back, ICE and Border Patrol continued their new streak of following and arresting community watchers.
DAILY MEMO: Border Patrol Sets Their Sights on San Fernando Valley Today, While San Bernardino Continues to See Non-Stop Raids
Border Patrol raided the Panorama City area targeting and taking multiple street vendors.
DAILY MEMO: Border Patrol and ICE Raid Almost 20 L.A. Communities, Almost 30 Total in SoCal in Record Numbers
Today, ICE and Border Patrol set a new daily record, surpassing their previous daily average of about 30 reports with nearly 50 incidents. There was a time when 25-40 was the total number of incidents I’d report for a whole week; they just did that in one day.
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.
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?
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?”










