Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧<p>How L.A. Raids Ignited a New Fight Over Immigration</p><p><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/LosAngeles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LosAngeles</span></a> is home to the country’s largest population of <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/undocumented" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>undocumented</span></a> immigrants. So when President <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>’s <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> raids arrived, many expected trouble.</p><p>from <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NewYorkTimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewYorkTimes</span></a> [gift article]<br>Reporting from Los Angeles and Washington<br>Published June 14, 2025 Updated June 16, 2025, 10:14 p.m. ET</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/us/los-angeles-protests-buildup.html?unlocked_article_code=1.O08.zKmc.sKtFHfI8wvge&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/06/14/us/los-</span><span class="invisible">angeles-protests-buildup.html?unlocked_article_code=1.O08.zKmc.sKtFHfI8wvge&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare</span></a></p><p>"But on June 6, as [<a href="https://expressional.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a>] agents swarmed the premises, dozens of employees at the warehouse and at a second facility nearby fled their workstations, ducking between shelves and inside boxes.<br>[...]<br>One of the workers, Tomas [...], who has three U.S.-born, college-educated children and has lived in Los Angeles for three decades, texted his son Carlos at around 10 a.m.<br>[...]<br>When Carlos arrived at the downtown warehouse a few minutes later, [he] was already gone. Carlos stood in disbelief as his father’s co-workers were hauled away and their loved ones screamed, cried and bid them goodbye."</p><p><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>press</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a></p>