Last Friday, CA Senator Alex Padilla was handcuffed by ICE while attempting to ask DHS Secretary Kristi Noem a question at a press conference. After ICE manhandled him out of the press room to the hallway, Padilla was let go, and an hour later he had his own press conference where he said what many Angelenos needed to hear in that moment: “If this is how this administration responds to a senator with a question […] I can only imagine what they are doing to farmworkers, to cooks, to day laborers throughout the Los Angeles community, and throughout California and throughout the country.”

On Saturday, as 200k people marched at the no kings day protest in downtown LA, ICE was raiding the Sante Fe Springs swap meet, an open air market in a working class suburb of LA. Vendors and shoppers are trying to pick up the pieces post raid.

Clergy have been mobilizing people of faith across the city to stand up for their neighbors, and are having moments of prayer and protest outside the federal building on a weekly basis. Mutual aid organizations have been holding fundraisers to pay the rent and bills of street vendors so they don’t have to leave the house. People have been having noise protests at night in front of hotels where ICE agents are staying, and across the city ICE spotting trainings have been happening multiple times a week, with ways to link up with people in your neighborhood who have also been trained.

(Taken from an email sent to me by Never Again Action.)