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Border Patrol Detains Three at La Puente Chilaquiles Stand Before Seizing Its Cash Box
A screaming woman in an apron was seen running from the stand into the safety of a nearby firetruck, while the stand's other employees weren't so lucky.
31 Non-Profit Organizations Supporting Immigrants Right Now
Working hard to defend the rights, dignity, and well-being of immigrants, refugees, and the undocumented, they need our help more than ever right now. Note: We will update this guide as we verify more non-profits doing the good work out there.
ICE Raids Are Driving Customers Away From L.A. Restaurants, But We Can Still Save Them
How is this one of the toughest years for food businesses in a generation at the exact same time Latino culture is having its biggest, loudest, most mainstream moment in American history? Instead, restaurants, many of which are Mexican—the heart of that culture, the vanguard—are barely hanging on.
UPDATE: Carlos Jimenez, U.S. Citizen Shot By A Federal Immigration Agent, Indicted For Allegedly Assaulting Border Patrol Agent
According to his lawyers, Carlos Jimenez had attempted to warn agents of the presence of school children at a nearby bus stop in his community when he was shot by federal agents. Authorities claim he had attempted to run over the agents.
ICE impersonator harassed driver and passenger during an Uber ride in Los Angeles
Footage shows a man yelling racist insults and spitting at a passenger and her driver in an Uber vehicle. It’s the latest in at least two dozen documented incidents of people impersonating ICE agents.
Video: Federal Agent Arrested For Assault In Riverside County After Detaining Unarmed 17-Year-Old At Gunpoint
“Finally, we got an ICE agent who crossed the line so bad, he got arrested,” Attorney Greg Kirakosian said in a statement to L.A. TACO. “This is something I think our local law enforcement has to start doing with such clear examples of unnecessary tactics.”
“They Took My Mom. Then They Took My Dad and Uncle,” Oxnard ICE Raids Through The Eyes of 16-Year-Old Boy
A high school student and budding mariachi recounts the damage done to his family by two separate immigration raids, four months apart, detailing the lasting trauma federal enforcement is leaving on brown youth across the U.S.
UPDATE: Toddler Detained In Chaotic Border Patrol Raid At Home Depot In Cypress Park This Morning
After an agent hit the child in the face with a ball, the youth was driven away from the scene by Border Patrol. The mother and child were reunited in the afternoon.
Federal Immigration Agents Spotted In Dodgers Parking Lot, Day After Championship Parade
A firefighter told L.A. TACO that they got a call saying that “some unwelcome people” had driven onto a parking lot that the fire department rented from the Dodgers for a seminar that they’re hosting today.
Ten Days After Adelanto Internment, This Beloved Grandfather Died In Custody
Leaving his grieving family with a lot of unanswered questions.
