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For them, picking up work at Home Depot is their only source of income, and some work as little as one day a week. While Valencia and other day laborers sought wages, other community members in Paramount and Compton,
Large-scale immigration raids at packinghouses and fields in California are threatening businesses that supply much of the country’s food, farm bureaus say.
Now the senior U.S. senator from California, Alex Padilla’s career in public service started amid intense fervor over immigration in the early 1990s. Now, it comes full circle.
“Last Thursday, ICE entered our city, and provoked the city, by chasing people through Home Depots and car washes and showing up at schools. And today, showing up at emergency rooms and homeless shelters,” Bass said at the Thursday press conference.
With migrant communities already living in fear amid the Trump administration's immigration crackdown, ICE raids in downtown Los Angeles sparked days of protests.
Some blame state’s sanctuary laws for why federal agents are keeping Los Angeles law enforcement at arm’s length.
Community organizers say at least 35 people were arrested as federal immigration agents swept through Ventura County farms and packinghouses this week.
Military-style vehicles and National Guards troops have blocked a portion of 4th Street in front of the Ronald Reagan Federal Building and Courthouse.