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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: Feds Abduct At Least 23 Workers Today, Highest in Weeks

ICE raids today spanned Southern California, with multiple reported abductions of workers and community members in Huntington Park, San Diego, Chino, Los Angeles, North Hollywood, Redondo Beach, Carson, Harbor City, and Garden Grove, while fundraisers erupted in response. Meanwhile, ICE faces mounting scrutiny nationwide after an officer was relieved of duty for misconduct, protesters were attacked outside a Broadview facility in Illinois, and the superintendent of Iowa’s largest school district was detained.

September 26, 2025

Daily Memo: Agents Continue Targeting and Kidnapping Workers

Plus, ICE in Camarillo, Paramount, and Chino Hills.

September 25, 2025

DAILY MEMO: 15 Abducted as Agents Swarm Homes, Schools, and Job Sites in Early Morning Raids

ICE carried out multiple raids across Southern California, with confirmed kidnappings in Pomona (8 people), Westminster (1), Los Angeles (1), Stanton (at least 3), Moreno Valley (1), and San Bernardino (2), while other encounters involved questioning or scouting at schools, carwashes, and Home Depots. Community watch groups documented agents across Long Beach, Santa Ana, Anaheim, Hawaiian Gardens, and Moreno Valley, with several sightings of masked and unmarked ICE vehicles lingering after operations.

September 24, 2025

DAILY MEMO: Federal Agents Target 15 Different Cities Across Southern California Today

ICE and HSI agents carried out a series of raids across Southern California, with confirmed kidnappings in Oxnard, Laguna Niguel, Santa Ana, San Pedro, Escondido, Fontana, Pasadena, Pomona, and Ontario. Other sightings included agents staging or scouting at car washes, churches, parking lots, and businesses in Ventura, Norco, Montclair, and San Bernardino, with some operations ending without confirmed detentions.

September 23, 2025

First Death in Adelanto ICE Facility This Year Brings Total Custody Fatalities to 19

On the last Saturday that Ismael Ayala-Uribe was seen by his mother, she described him as having pale skin and bloodshot eyes. He told her, “Ya no puedo más, amá” (I can’t anymore, Mom).

DAILY MEMO: LAPD Sends Two Helicopters and Six Officers to Detain Black Woman Chasing ICE Out of Her Neighborhood

Over the weekend and into Monday, immigration agents carried out multiple operations across Southern California, with kidnappings reported in Montclair, San Diego, Santa Ana, Oxnard, Ventura County, Long Beach, Pacoima, Riverside, and Santa Maria, while community groups in places like Long Beach and Goleta successfully disrupted or tracked agents to prevent more detentions. Meanwhile, DHS sparked controversy by refusing to comply with California’s new mask ban for law enforcement, subpoenaed a Long Beach activist’s social media account, and faced a lawsuit over a $2 million spyware contract, raising growing concerns about surveillance, free speech, and civil rights abuses.

September 22, 2025

DAILY MEMO: First Confirmed Death in NY Under ICE Custody Brings New Death Toll to 19

On day 106 of immigration raids, a man was taken in Oxnard while reports in Highland Park, Rancho Cucamonga, Costa Mesa, and Cypress Park led to either false alarms or no confirmed detentions. Meanwhile, nationwide developments included the death of a man in ICE custody in New York, new lawsuits challenging raids and courthouse arrests, protests met with teargas outside a Chicago-area ICE facility, an appeals court ordering the deportation of Atlanta journalist Mario Guevara, and controversy over Florida Atlantic University’s secretive ICE partnership.

September 19, 2025

DAILY MEMO: Federal Agents Have Now Killed 18 People

Border Patrol and ICE may have been slowed down by rains and vigilant rapid responders today, but they were still spotted scouting in different areas like Highland and Cypress Parks. Meanwhile, broader developments include California winning a temporary pause against Trump’s public benefits restrictions, LA County halting food vendor crackdowns due to safety concerns, growing outrage over ICE deaths, solitary confinement, and body-cam failures, and new USCIS naturalization test changes raising concerns over immigrant access to citizenship.

September 18, 2025

DAILY MEMO: Rapid Responders Foil ICE Raid Again at The Same Car Wash Targeted a Third Time This Week

On day 104 of raids, federal immigration agents carried out operations across Southern California, taking people from car washes, apartments, and public spaces in Santa Ana, Anaheim, Los Angeles, Orange, Oxnard, Santa Barbara, West Covina, Jurupa Valley, Lake Forest, Santa Maria, San Luis Obispo, Pasadena, Rancho Cucamonga, and San Jacinto. Meanwhile, ICE badly injured the Van Nuys Car Wash owner during a raid, an immigration judge ordered the deportation of pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, another longtime resident with three Marine sons faces deportation after a violent arrest, and L.A. County paused food vendor enforcement due to safety concerns tied to ICE activity.

September 17, 2025

DAILY MEMO: Agents Raid Mexican Consulate on Mexico’s Independence Day and More

Federal immigration agents were spotted across Southern California, where multiple people were detained, and rapid response patrols deterred some operations. In other news, Border Patrol expanded to Chicago, L.A. County approved $30 million in rent relief for victims of fire and ICE, Senate Democrats raised concerns about the Pentagon sending military lawyers as temporary immigration judges, and California lawmakers advanced SB 627, the “No Vigilantes Act,” to ban extreme masking by law enforcement.

September 16, 2025