Raids in Southern California Rattle Immigrant Communities — Including Those in the US Legally

There's A Name For The Sadness And Guilt Latinos Feel While Watching ICE Raids

If you're an immigrant — and most of us in this country are — it's hard not to feel anxiety and sadness about what's happening. We asked therapists for self-care advice.

There is nothing normal about the recent ICE raids

As a faith-rooted organizer who has spent nearly three decades defending immigrant families and standing against ICE, these past three days of enforcement actions in Los Angeles shook me to my core. Enforcement was also taking place in other cities…

Community members lend a helping hand to scared families following immigration raids

Volunteers with Building Healthy Communities have gathered to make food boxes for local families that may be too scared to leave their homes following recent immigration raids across the country. Organizers say this isnt the first time theyve done something like this. Delivering food back in January when boarder patrol was spotted throughout areas of the county. In order to reach as many families as possible, volunteers were split into different…

LA ICE raids spark fear, family separation in immigrant communities

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) -- Nationwide attention is focused on Los Angeles as recent ICE raids have led to widespread detentions of undocumented immigrants, from adults to children, at locations like Home Depot, Walmart, and even schools. The sweeps, ordered by the Trump administration, have left communities reeling. Palmira Figueroa, communications director at NDLON, an LA-based immigrant rights group, says the raids have directly impacted familie…

Southern California's immigrant communities terrorized by ICE raids

Carrying a sign reading “Without immigrants there would be no U.S.,” a marcher chants as she walks during a protest in San Diego in February 2017. (File photo by Chris Stone/Times of San Diego) Jacob Vasquez began working at a clothing warehouse in Los Angeles soon after arriving from Mexico less than three years ago. He is among dozens of workers detained by federal immigration authorities in a series of raids in LA’s fashion district and at Ho…

Migrant communities in US live in fear of ICE raids

Federal immigration agents are conducting raids for which they have no warrants, say advocacy groups in the US. Even people who are legally in the US are staying away from work because they fear being swept up.