Ice agents detain US citizen as LA immigration raids continue: ‘It’s racial profiling’
by Sam Levin in Los Angeles from US news | The Guardian on (#6Y15R)
Officers arrest people at swap meet in Santa Fe and detain people in Montebello as curfew in LA remains in place
US immigration raids continued to target southern California communities in recent days, including at a popular flea market and in a Los Angeles suburb where US citizens were detained.
On Saturday, as mass protests swept the nation, including tens of thousands demonstrating in LA, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agents descended on a swap meet in Santa Fe Springs in southeast LA county. Video showed dozens of heavily armed, masked officers carrying out the raid before a scheduled concert at the long-running event that features vendors, food and entertainment every weekend
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