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You All Drank 45 Gallons of Our L.A. TACO Beer In Five Hours
Our first-ever beer collaboration with ISM Brewing was a huge success, as was our three-way food collaboration with Sonoratown and ISM.
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.
Daily Memo: Agents Continue Targeting and Kidnapping Workers
Plus, ICE in Camarillo, Paramount, and Chino Hills.
The 43 Best Mexican Restaurants in Los Angeles, Ranked
These are the L.A. restaurants that make this the most exciting city in the world outside of Mexico to enjoy peak Mexican cooking and hospitality.
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.
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.
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.
How L.A.’s Playbook Can Guide Chicago’s Fight Against ICE
With ICE terrorizing Chicago, independent media outlets The Triibe, Unraveled Press and The Chicago Reader joined forces to report on their activities in the city and suburbs. We spoke with them about the lessons and strategies they learned from media in L.A. and D.C. for their coverage.
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.
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.
