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Immigration raids won’t fix LA
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Immigration raids won’t fix LA
It was a sun-kissed summer morning in Los Angeles when the radio blared that another ICE raid was happening. Hopping on X, I scrolled through videos of federal officers charging through MacArthur Park on horseback, flanked by gun-toting armed troops and military Humvees. It’s a scene that has become disturbingly familiar in a city under siege by federal forces since early June. I started texting friends who live near the park, asking for eyewitn…
When her husband was arrested by the immigration police in early July near Los Angeles, Martha must have abruptly separated herself from the father of her two daughters. But she also lost the income that allowed her to maintain her home. “He is the pillar of the family, (...) he was the only one working,” says this undocumented Mexican woman who prefers to speak under pseudonym. “He is no longer there to help us, to support me and my daughters.”…
Ventura, United States. Farmer Lisa Tate, whose family has worked the land in southern California for more than a century, claims that she has never seen a threat to crops as in recent months with Donald Trump’s government’s anti-immigration onslaught. Based in Ventura, a city north of Los Angeles, the scene of several raids by immigration authorities recently, Tate argues that the implementation of this federal policy does not solve the problem…
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