Communities are bracing for a third week of immigration enforcement activity while city of Los Angeles officials contemplate suing the Trump administration to prohibit federal agents from carrying out unconstitutional stops and arrests.
Last week, seven Los Angeles City Council members signed a proposal asking City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto to prioritize “immediate legal action” to protect the civil rights of Angelenos, arguing that such a step is needed to keep constituents from being racially profiled or unlawfully detained.
Council member Katy Yaroslavsky, who co-authored the proposal, cited reports of residents being stopped, questioned and detained by individuals claiming to be federal immigration agents, but who did not display an official badge or government identification.
“… you can’t do that under the 4th Amendment,” Yaroslavsky told reporters. “It’s not reasonable suspicion that they’re noncitizens just because they’re brown.
“Even if they’re here legally,[people are] afraid because the Trump administration has shown it’s willing to detain and deport people who are here legally. So, if ever there were an instance where it made sense for local government to step in on behalf of our people, now is the time.”
Fear of immigration enforcement activity led the city of Pasadena to cancel summer park programming on Saturday out of “an abundance of caution.”.
Activists held “emergency vigils” at the parks and condemned the raids.
“The administration’s cruelty strikes again, tearing people from their lives and leaving their families terrified and without answers. The very places where people work, live, and contribute to this city have become scenes of chaos and confusion,” Pablo Alvarado, co-executive director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, said.
“Those taken were not criminals — they were neighbors, workers, caretakers. Immigrants who rebuilt our homes, cleaned our streets, cared for our children, and stood with us after the wildfires. They risked their health and lives for the community then — and they continue to serve it now.”
Pasadena was also the site of Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids on Wednesday, when at least six people were detained, according to multiple media reports.
Saturday’s Pasadena raids came one day after Maywood and Bell became the latest Los Angeles County cities where protests against the Trump administration’s enforcement of immigration law have been met with violence.
Huntington Park Mayor Arturo Flores condemned what he called “a wave of alarming immigration-related activity” across that city, and urged his police department to “enforce state and local laws concerning unmarked vehicles, visible license plates, and required agency identification.”
Flores said recent raids have been carried out by “masked and unidentified individuals reportedly abducting residents in broad daylight.
“These are not lawful arrests. These are abductions,” Flores said. “For more than a week, we have witnessed families being torn apart, children left without parents, and residents vanishing without explanation.
Men dressed in tactical gear, operating unmarked vehicles without displaying credentials or agency affiliation, have infiltrated our neighborhoods in direct violation of our community’s values, civil rights, and the basic principles of due process.
” …I am calling for the immediate cessation of these raids and for the Huntington Park Police Department to begin verifying the identities and authority of any individuals conducting such operations within city limits.”
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