Multiple immigration sweeps reported across Los Angeles, with a tense standoff/protest downtown; SEIU union leader arrested

rjs330 · Aug 28, 2025

essentialsaltes said:
ICE detention of student was ‘unconstitutional racial profiling,’ family alleges in claim

A $1-million damage claim targets the Trump administration for the detention of a 15-year-old U.S. citizen just outside of Arleta High School in Los Angeles.

Federal authorities call the incident a case of mistaken identity.

Officials added: “This is a case study of billboard law firms trying to turn family resemblance into racial animus to collect clicks, clout, and cash.”

About seven minutes after the confrontation began, officers were persuaded they had detained the wrong person.

An officer then joked, to mother and son, that the boy would have an exciting experience to tell his friends about.

“There’s nothing exciting about getting guns pointed at you, especially when you’re a 15-year-old,” [Mom] Mejia said.

Immigration agents attempted to enter two Los Angeles elementary schools in April, but the principals turned them away. The Arleta High incident renewed concerns because it happened on the campus perimeter. Immigration agents also recently arrested — on Aug. 8 — an 18-year-old Reseda High senior as he was walking the family dog near their Van Nuys home.

Big whoop. LE makes mistakes all the time across rhe country regarding mistaken identity.

This lasted a whole 7 minutes. 7 minutes? Thats nothing. Laws are clear rhat when you stop someone it shouldn't last longer than necessary. 7 minutes is about as short of time as you can get from start to finish.

essentialsaltes · Aug 28, 2025

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An L.A. high school senior was walking his dog. Then immigration agents grabbed him
Benjamin Marcelo Guerrero-Cruz was walking his family’s dog in Van Nuys on a recent morning when he was taken into custody by federal immigration officials, according to authorities and published reports.

L.A. teen is moved to ICE detention center out of state without parents’ knowledge

This week, his family was caught off-guard once again when they learned that Immigration and Customs Enforcement had transferred him to Arizona without notifying any relatives, according to the office of U.S. Rep. Luz Rivas (D-North Hollywood), which spoke to his family and reviewed ICE detention records.

Guerrero-Cruz was moved out of the Adelanto Detention Facility in San Bernardino County late Monday night and taken to a holding facility in Arizona in the middle of the desert, according to the congresswoman’s office.

“Benjamin and his family deserve answers behind ICE’s inconsistent and chaotic decision-making process, including why Benjamin was initially transferred to Arizona, why he was slated to be transferred to Louisiana afterward, and why his family wasn’t notified of his whereabouts by ICE throughout this process,” Rivas said in a statement.

On Tuesday, Rivas introduced a bill that would require ICE to notify an immediate family member of a detainee within 24 hours of a detainee’s transfer. Currently, ICE is required to notify a family member only in the case of a detainee’s death.

rjs330 · Aug 28, 2025

essentialsaltes said:
L.A. teen is moved to ICE detention center out of state without parents’ knowledge
This week, his family was caught off-guard once again when they learned that Immigration and Customs Enforcement had transferred him to Arizona without notifying any relatives, according to the office of U.S. Rep. Luz Rivas (D-North Hollywood), which spoke to his family and reviewed ICE detention records.

Guerrero-Cruz was moved out of the Adelanto Detention Facility in San Bernardino County late Monday night and taken to a holding facility in Arizona in the middle of the desert, according to the congresswoman’s office.

“Benjamin and his family deserve answers behind ICE’s inconsistent and chaotic decision-making process, including why Benjamin was initially transferred to Arizona, why he was slated to be transferred to Louisiana afterward, and why his family wasn’t notified of his whereabouts by ICE throughout this process,” Rivas said in a statement.

On Tuesday, Rivas introduced a bill that would require ICE to notify an immediate family member of a detainee within 24 hours of a detainee’s transfer. Currently, ICE is required to notify a family member only in the case of a detainee’s death.

Sounds like ICE is acting legally. We'll see if the law passes. I honeatly dont think it would be a terrible change.

Pommer · Aug 29, 2025

rjs330 said:
Big whoop. LE makes mistakes all the time across rhe country regarding mistaken identity.

This lasted a whole 7 minutes. 7 minutes? Thats nothing. Laws are clear rhat when you stop someone it shouldn't last longer than necessary. 7 minutes is about as short of time as you can get from start to finish.

Maybe that’s the point of the suit?
Make the government pay for “mistakes” and after a few million here and a few million there people will be advised to “do it legally”.

BPPLEE · Aug 29, 2025

rjs330 said:
Sounds like ICE is acting legally. We'll see if the law passes. I honeatly dont think it would be a terrible change.

Won't it be kind of hard to track down family members of every illegal immigrant who is transferred to another facility?

Bradskii · Aug 29, 2025

BPPLEE said:
Won't it be kind of hard to track down family members of every illegal immigrant who is transferred to another facility?

'We're transferring you. Is there anyone we need to contact to let them know where you're going to be?'

BPPLEE · Aug 29, 2025

Bradskii said:
'We're transferring you. Is there anyone we need to contact to let them know where you're going to be?'

Then the law needs to specify that an attempt must be made to contact a family member . For some the answer is going to be no

Bradskii · Aug 29, 2025

BPPLEE said:
Then the law needs to specify that an attempt must be made to contact a family member .

Now that's hardly an inconvenience, is it. It strikes me as being a civilised way of treating people.

rjs330 · Aug 29, 2025

Pommer said:
Maybe that’s the point of the suit?
Make the government pay for “mistakes” and after a few million here and a few million there people will be advised to “do it legally”.

Thats unrealistic, LE does and should have the right to stop people they believe is the person they are looking for. If the stop reveals they aren't the person then they go on their way. Do you somehow believe that cops shouldn't have the right to stop someone unless they are 100% positive that the person is the right one? What if the cop is 100% positive and is still wrong? The government should them pay up?

Thats nuts.

essentialsaltes · Aug 30, 2025

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The White House moved Tuesday to keep interim U.S. Atty. Bill Essayli in power as Los Angeles’ top federal prosecutor, marking the Trump administration’s latest maneuver to defy norms and keep controversial appointees in positions across the country.

Public defender’s office seeks removal of Trump’s top federal prosecutor in L.A.

In their motion, Flynn and Sarsour pointed out that the Trump administration has used similar strategies to keep political allies in power in U.S. attorney’s offices in New Jersey, Nevada, New Mexico and the Northern District of New York. But legal challenges are mounting. Last week, a federal judge ruled that Alina Habba has been illegally occupying her seat in New Jersey since early July, although that order was put on hold pending appeal.

essentialsaltes · Aug 30, 2025

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New footage challenges federal agents' shooting at San Bernardino family truck, attorneys say

Family says new video disputes Department of Homeland Security account
The footage captured by surveillance cameras outside the vehicle shows the driver, Francisco Longoria, pulling away as armed individuals surrounded his truck.

San Bernardino man arrested after he protested immigration officer shooting at his truck

Francisco Longoria’s lawyers say more than a dozen armed federal agents arrived at their client’s home early Thursday with an armored personnel carrier.
Federal officials say Longoria injured immigration officers and tried to run some over with his truck on Aug. 16, a claim his lawyers reject.

“These are the type of tactics reserved for dangerous criminals such as violent gang members, drug lords and terrorists,” the attorneys said. “It was clearly intended to intimidate and punish Mr. Longoria and his family for daring to speak out about their attempted murder by [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] and CBP agents on August 16th.”

Longoria is facing a charge of assault on a federal officer with a deadly/dangerous weapon.

At the initial court appearance, the judge questioned the assistant U.S. attorney prosecuting the case, Cory Burleson, about the government’s claim that it was conducting an “immigration check,” a term he couldn’t clarify when asked by the court, according to Longoria’s attorneys.

Burleson also claimed Longoria was stopped because of a traffic violation, but couldn’t identify the violation, his attorneys said. When the judge asked Burleson to identify the alleged injuries of the officers, Burleson said he was “not aware of any injuries,” Longoria’s attorneys said.

essentialsaltes · Sep 5, 2025

Trump’s military deployment in Los Angeles cost $120 million, Newsom says

Estimated costs included $71 million for food and other basic necessities, $37 million in payroll, $4 million in logistic supplies, $3.5 million in travel and $1.5 million in demobilization costs.
This week, a federal judge in San Francisco barred troops from aiding in immigration arrests in a scathing opinion that amounted to a major win for California and other states critical of the Trump administration’s deployments.

Newsom’s office said the newly revealed price tag was tallied from estimates provided by the California National Guard about costs incurred since June, when Trump sent more than 4,200 National Guard members and 700 Marines to Los Angeles. [300 NG remain.]

Newsom filed a public records request to U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth in August asking for total expenses connected to the deployment of troops in Los Angeles. In that request, which is still pending, Newsom said most troops were “passing the days sitting idly without a clear mission, direction, or a timeline for returning to their communities.”

essentialsaltes · Monday at 9:47 AM

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a federal judge issued a temporary restraining order blocking federal agents from using racial profiling to carry out random immigration arrests across the region, officials said.

ACLU argues Border Patrol broke court order with high-profile Sacramento raid

ACLU and United Farm Workers filed a motion alleging Border Patrol violated court orders during raids targeting Latino workers.
Border Patrol’s arrest reports contained identical boilerplate language and factual errors, undermining required documentation of reasonable suspicion for stops, critics say.

In April, a federal district court judge ruled that the Border Patrol likely violated the Constitution’s protections against unreasonable search and seizure during a January operation in Kern County called “Operation Return to Sender,” in which agents swarmed a Home Depot and Latino market, among other areas frequented by laborers. The judge ordered the Border Patrol, led by El Centro Sector Chief Gregory Bovino, to stop the raids in California’s Eastern District, which covers much of the state’s Central Valley, including Sacramento.

[Bovino took his circus to Los Angeles, where again a court ordered him to stop. Then he went back to Sacramento and allegedly did it some more. Bovino] announced Tuesday on his social media account that the L.A. crackdown would be expanding to other cities across the country.

As part of the original preliminary injunction, Border Patrol agents were required to provide the ACLU with documentation on their specific and individual reasonable suspicion for each warrantless stop.

The plaintiffs allege agents fabricated and copied and pasted boilerplate language for those reports from the raid at the Home Depot in south Sacramento.

A handful of the reports justified the warrantless arrests by stating: “Sacramento, California has been identified as a city where many illegal aliens are known to stay, live and work without having any legal documentation in the United States.” Others noted that California is a sanctuary state.

“(Person) was located in California, which is a sanctuary state. Sanctuary states shield the identity of illegal aliens from immigration officials,” the arrest reports noted. The plaintiffs argue that someone being in a sanctuary state is not enough cause to give an agent reasonable suspicion that they are in the country illegally.

essentialsaltes · Monday at 3:11 PM

Stopping people for being brown or speaking Spanish is back on the menu (at least temporarily).

The Supreme Court lifted a restraining order granted by a judge and cleared the way for federal agents to carry out sweeping immigration enforcement operations in Los Angeles.

The restraining order granted July 11 by U.S. District Judge Maame E. Frimpong in Los Angeles [had until now] barred agents from using certain tactics during the raids, such as stopping people based solely on race, language, job or location.

"I think the Supreme Court's decision gives the ability and the authority for ICE agents to go to car washes and construction sites and look at the color of people's skin or their ethnicity, whether or not they're speaking Spanish or speaking in an accent, and to at least have a conversaTion about that person's immigration status," said Prof. Jessica A. Levinson, of Loyola Marymount University.

A lawsuit over the tactics filed by immigrant advocacy groups will now unfold in the courts system. The plaintiffs included U.S. citizens swept up in immigration stops.

A federal district court will hear arguments Sept. 24 on whether to issue a preliminary injunction in the case, according to the ACLU.

Gov. Gavin Newsom referred to deputy White House chief of staff [Stephen Miller] in his statement criticizing the ruling.

"Trump’s hand-picked Supreme Court majority just became the Grand Marshal for a parade of racial terror in Los Angeles," Newsome said. "This isn’t about enforcing immigration laws — it’s about targeting Latinos and anyone who doesn’t look or sound like Stephen Miller’s idea of an American, including U.S. citizens and children, to deliberately harm California’s families and small businesses. Trump's private police force now has a green light to come after your family — and every person is now a target — but we will continue fighting these abhorrent attacks on Californians."

Pommer · Tuesday at 3:02 AM

essentialsaltes said:
Stopping people for being brown or speaking Spanish is back on the menu (at least temporarily).

The Supreme Court lifted a restraining order granted by a judge and cleared the way for federal agents to carry out sweeping immigration enforcement operations in Los Angeles.

The restraining order granted July 11 by U.S. District Judge Maame E. Frimpong in Los Angeles [had until now] barred agents from using certain tactics during the raids, such as stopping people based solely on race, language, job or location.

"I think the Supreme Court's decision gives the ability and the authority for ICE agents to go to car washes and construction sites and look at the color of people's skin or their ethnicity, whether or not they're speaking Spanish or speaking in an accent, and to at least have a conversaTion about that person's immigration status," said Prof. Jessica A. Levinson, of Loyola Marymount University.

A lawsuit over the tactics filed by immigrant advocacy groups will now unfold in the courts system. The plaintiffs included U.S. citizens swept up in immigration stops.

A federal district court will hear arguments Sept. 24 on whether to issue a preliminary injunction in the case, according to the ACLU.

Gov. Gavin Newsom referred to deputy White House chief of staff [Stephen Miller] in his statement criticizing the ruling.

"Trump’s hand-picked Supreme Court majority just became the Grand Marshal for a parade of racial terror in Los Angeles," Newsome said. "This isn’t about enforcing immigration laws — it’s about targeting Latinos and anyone who doesn’t look or sound like Stephen Miller’s idea of an American, including U.S. citizens and children, to deliberately harm California’s families and small businesses. Trump's private police force now has a green light to come after your family — and every person is now a target — but we will continue fighting these abhorrent attacks on Californians."

Person speaking a foreign language≠ “probable-cause”, yet it’s moot point if agents are allowed to converse with those they suspect.

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