On 7 July, a convoy of federal agents descended upon Los Angeles’s MacArthur Park – in the heart of a predominantly immigrant neighborhood. Chaperones from a summer camp hurried children indoors, as protesters and media rushed to the scene. It was unclear whether immigration officials actually arrested anyone that morning.
City leaders denounced the spectacle as a “political stunt” designed to terrorize Angelenos who have been reckoning with a relentless onslaught of immigration raids that began in early June.
The ubiquitous presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agents, and the threat of arrest, have become a part of daily life for immigrants across the city and broader region. The raids have also taken an economic toll on neighborhoods like MacArthur Park, where business owners say trade has slowed to a crawl as people choose to stay home.
If only the Democrats had done anything for the workers, this could have been avoided.
Why has Joe Biden done this!?
He inadvertently did do this.
I voted for him and Kamala, and that was the right move, but we had better candidates that could have easily won against Trump.
Pour one out for Bernie, and what we could have had.
He inadvertently did do this.
That is seriously messed up.
I agree that the Democrats should have done more and should be doing more. However, I think it’s not good to frame what the Republicans do as being the fault of the Democrats for having not stopped them.
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