[dropcap size=big]T[/dropcap]ommy Gallegos is our tiny newsroom's unsung hero. When he's not carefully shipping all of our hoodies and snapbacks and making sure all of our new members feel the love when they open up our New Members Welcome Box, he is busy illustrating and tweaking our TacoMan mascot through the many situations L.A. Taco has had to evolve through. Working alongside Lexis-Olivier Ray, he created a comic to help our readers further understand the Andres Guardado case.
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ICE attempted to enter a home in Huntington Park met resistance from the community. The national guard is feeling pretty shitty (literally) about the whole situation and a federal officer got kicked in the nuts.
Joseph Navarrete, the manager for the Downey Animal Care Center, urges people who are in a position to adopt to stop by to visit dogs like Canela, a five-year-old Belgian Malinois. A total of 18 animals have been turned in due to the deportations.
Ramen from a noodle champ, bike-cart Chinese crepes in the SGV, and a masa-charged bike adventure.
U.S. Border Patrol Sector Chief raided Sacramento today taking the opportunity to make a propaganda video aimed at sending California a message. Meanwhile in L.A., federal agents are chasing people with their unmarked vehicles causing accidents while the DHS tests California and L.A.'s Sanctuary City policies.
In a demand letter sent to Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell, Jonathan Markovitz, a staff attorney for the ACLU SoCal, said that the reasoning given for denying Refuse Facism’s permit “appears to be unconstitutional."
The time for polite moderation is over. We need boldness. We need mass political education. We need legal defense funds, organizing infrastructure, and a renewed belief that Latinos are not guests in this country—we are foundational to it.
