Imperfect Paradise: On the ground for LA's historic ICE protests

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🗓️ 13 June 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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ICE raids began last Friday across Southern California. People have been detained and there have been confrontations between protesters and law enforcement. What exactly went down and where does Los Angeles go from here? We hear from family members of people detained by ICE and talk with LAist Civics and Democracy Correspondent Frank Stoltze about the unprecedented week that Angelenos just experienced. Also we take a look at the history of this moment -- and why it's significant that it's all happening in LA.

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0:30.3	This is In Perfect Paradise. I'm Andonia Seri-Hido.
0:42.5	By now, you've seen and heard it all over the news.
0:46.4	Ice raids began last Friday, across Southern California.
0:55.9	As of this, taping, immigrants' rights groups estimate that more than 300 people have been detained during the raids, some of whom have already been deported back to Mexico, according to the Mexican government.
1:00.1	And the Los Angeles Police Department says that it and other local agencies have arrested
1:04.8	more than 300 people after clashes between protesters and law enforcement since Saturday.
1:10.9	The Trump administration has ordered the National Guard and Marines here to Los Angeles.
1:16.2	Though many people have been protesting peacefully, there have been some violent confrontations
1:21.0	between protesters and law enforcement.
1:24.9	These events are significant because they're happening in L.A. The city is home to almost
1:31.3	one million undocumented immigrants. These events are also significant because they're happening
1:36.7	in California, a state with a long history of resistance against immigration laws and policies,
1:43.9	a state with a long history of fighting
1:45.6	for immigrant rights. In the late 1800s, people in California resisted the Chinese Exclusion Act,
1:53.6	which denied Chinese immigrants' naturalization rights and imposed other restrictions on their
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