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It is 71 pages dedicated to the 64 immigration related deaths since the Trump administration took over. It’s not just a list of names; we spent months looking for these people’s back stories, to re-humanize them and share the truth alongside what the DHS reported or failed to report. We have 46 stories of those who have died in custody, 9 during enforcement operations, 6 after being released from ICE Detention, 2 during mass shootings, and 1 by an off-duty agent. Their stories are now on lataco.com.
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—One Year Anniversary of L.A.'s Immigration Raids: We are exactly a month away from June 6th, when the Border Patrol arrived in Los Angeles and began the raids that terrorized so many around the country. And while that style of raid under the former disgraced Border Patrol chief Bovino has died down, the raids have not stopped; they’ve only changed.
—Pushing for "quieter" raids: As the new head of the DHS, Mark Mulling said recently, he’s pushing for "quieter" raids, the kind that likely won't draw media attention, which is losing support for the GOP and Trump. And Border Czar Tom Homan recently said that in the next couple of months, escalation is coming again, or as he puts it, “You ain’t seen shit yet. This year will be good. Mass deportations are coming.”