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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: About 30 Community Members Escort Family Home After Being Chased By Feds Into Long Beach Ross

Community members continue to step in and force federal agents out of their communities, thwarting kidnappings, confronting scouts, and even escorting families safely back home.

October 23, 2025

DAILY MEMO: Federal Agents Continue Ramming Their Vehicles Into People’s Cars

Except for a wild incident in San Diego where Agents chased and rammed their truck into a fleeing vehicle by a special ed center, today has been relatively calm compared to the last couple of weeks. There were only eight verified incidents to report. This is the new reality where such incidents are considered a calm day. A quick note, if you’re in San Bernardino and OC, listen up, because they never leave you alone. They are always there, especially at the San Bernardino courthouse, which they seem to target every single day.

October 22, 2025

DAILY MEMO: Agents Shoot TikToker in L.A. and Raid San Fernando Valley

Across Southern California, a joint operation involving ICE, U.S. Marshals, and other federal agents led to multiple kidnappings and violent detentions from the shooting of TikTok reporter RichardLA in Los Angeles to aggressive day-laborer raids in Sylmar, Reseda, and Thousand Oaks while heavily armed masked agents were also seen intimidating residents in Santa Ana and other cities throughout the day.

DAILY MEMO: After No Kings Protests, Feds Wreak Havoc in Santa Ana and O.C.

Raids continued during the No Kings marches on Saturday. And on Sunday, agents were completely unhinged raiding all of Santa Ana grabbing people while they walked, were riding bikes, causing hit and runs, and driving while pointing an assault rifle at drivers through their dash board. There’s over 30 incidents to report from Saturday through today, Monday, that include at least 30 kidnappings. That number could have easily been more if not for community watch members shouting through megaphones on bikes, from their cars, and alerting car washes.

October 20, 2025

DAILY MEMO: ‘We Work In Fear Every Day,’ A Car Wash Owner Tells L.A. TACO

ICE took at least 18 people today, profiled several people with legal status, and rammed their vehicle into a rapid responder. A paletero from Culver City is back home after 115 days in detention, and DHS reported another death in ICE Custody. Meanwhile, DHS has Orwellian Big Brother capabilities enhanced by AI to track everyone with 80,000 cameras all over the U.S.

DAILY MEMO: ICE Rips Mom From Her Infant, Takes U.S. Citizens and Parents After School Drop-off, and Assaults Worker with a Taser

Today’s raids across Southern California showed a continuing escalation of violence by masked federal agents as they kidnapped at least 20 people, including parents after their school drop-offs, U.S. citizens, and a mother is ripped from her infant, while violently tasing and dragging one man, assaulting a community watch member, and conducting warrantless operations near homes, schools, and workplaces in at least 12 cities around the greater Los Angeles area.

DAILY MEMO: Elderly Man Hospitalized After ICE Hit and Run in Pacoima, One of 17 Incidents Reported Today

Masked ICE and Border Patrol agents raided several parking lots outside Home Depots, Superior Grocers, a bakery, a recycling center, a carnitas spot, a donut shop, and a tea house, resulting in at least 12 confirmed kidnappings of workers and street vendors while also scouting residential areas throughout the Southland.

DAILY MEMO: ICE Raids San Fernando Valley Kidnapping At Least 20 People and More

ICE and Border Patrol focused most of their attention in the San Fernando Valley, kidnapping 15 people from a single Home Depot. Meanwhile everyone from L.A. TACO to NPR is noticing that agents are getting more violent and aggressive especially towards community observers.

DAILY MEMO: In New Tactic, ICE Kidnaps Random Bystanders Near Foiled Raid Sites

ICE is continuing their raids, going after seemingly anyone at random, sometimes releasing them later in the streets. Meanwhile DHS is playing the victim card as they deport migrants to Africa, a country not of their origin.