'It's Our Right as Americans': LA Protests Against ICE
Latino USA
Futuro Media and PRX
4.9 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
In the news this week: On June 6, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents began a series of raids in Los Angeles, and their actions were the boiling point after months of violent apprehensions.
Protests grew and the federal government sent unsolicited troops as a response, which only heightened tensions. We speak with Cal Matters reporter Sergio Olmos about the administration’s excessive crackdown, how we got here, and why this is happening in the Sanctuary city of LA.
“Los Angeles is a very diverse place,” and going after people in low-paying jobs with assault rifles “is not a very popular thing here," Olmos said.
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| 0:51.7 | An 18-year-old girl got the call while she was at school. |
| 0:55.5 | She was told, something's going on where your dad works, and she came down here tearfully, |
| 0:59.8 | not understanding necessarily, but actually had a visual of her father through the window of that store. |
| 1:06.6 | Last Friday, ICE agents arrived in Los Angeles with a clear plan, detain undocumented immigrants. |
| 1:14.8 | This is the Amiens Apparel store where the FBI Homeland Security and ICE agents performed a raid a couple of hours ago. |
| 1:21.7 | We're just now seeing some people that are being detained. |
| 1:25.2 | Their first stop was at an apparel manufacturer in the city's fashion district, |
| 1:30.3 | locally known as the Cajjones or the Santee Alleyes, |
| 1:33.8 | where many workers are immigrants, some undocumented. |
| 1:37.6 | It was the first of several raids that day, the beginning of a militarized operation. |
| 1:43.2 | Three blocks away, I saw the laborers running from our local Home Depot. |
| 1:47.6 | I took off my heels, grabbed my megaphone, and ran in that direction. |
| 1:51.8 | DHS reported that it detained more than a hundred immigrants. |
| 1:55.9 | In a matter of hours, hundreds of Angelinos of all races and backgrounds |
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