{"id":4452,"date":"2026-06-14T18:35:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T18:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/2026\/06\/14\/a-year-after-ice-raids-terrorized-los-angeles-a-rattled-city-counts-its-scars-the-arrests-never-really-stopped\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T18:35:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T18:35:58","slug":"a-year-after-ice-raids-terrorized-los-angeles-a-rattled-city-counts-its-scars-the-arrests-never-really-stopped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/?p=4452","title":{"rendered":"A year after ICE raids terrorized Los Angeles, a rattled city counts its scars: \u2018The arrests never really stopped\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border-color:var(--article-border)\" class=\"dcr-wqti5a\">\n<div class=\"dcr-1fw0voq\">\n<div style=\"--grid-area:media\" data-gu-name=\"media\" class=\"dcr-1fnjjtg\">\n<div class=\"dcr-1j5hrwi\">\n<div class=\"dcr-tr9ye5\">\n<figure id=\"7e3d1bfb-ed83-48d4-a7dc-dbd936abf4be\" class=\"dcr-142siv7\">\n<div id=\"img-1\" class=\"dcr-1t8m8f2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A parking lot outside a big box store in early morning light, with one man's shadow long behind him as he walks past cars.\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/d1405239c34b025b0a9fd346648f12efcc961aab\/0_72_3500_2585\/master\/3500.jpg?width=465&amp;dpr=1&amp;s=none&amp;crop=none\" width=\"465\" height=\"343.43571428571425\" loading=\"eager\" class=\"dcr-evn1e9\"><span class=\"dcr-v822l1\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"dcr-gup2gr\">\n<div class=\"dcr-fntg6k\"><label for=\"the-checkbox\" class=\"dcr-1xgwz8b\"><\/label> <\/p>\n<div id=\"the-caption\"><figcaption data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" class=\"dcr-1os51wo\"><span class=\"dcr-hvsf4t\"><\/span><span class=\"dcr-1qvd3m6\">The parking lot of Home Depot in the MacArthur Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, on 10 June.<\/span> Photograph: Aleksey Kondratyev\/The Guardian<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><a href=\"#img-1\" data-ignore=\"global-link-styling\" class=\"open-lightbox dcr-13fd1ms\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><button data-element-id=\"7e3d1bfb-ed83-48d4-a7dc-dbd936abf4be\" type=\"button\" class=\"open-lightbox dcr-4tmywn\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><span class=\"dcr-194i6pr\">View image in fullscreen<\/span><\/button><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"dcr-n4pnam\"><figcaption data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" class=\"dcr-1hdkqum\"><span class=\"dcr-hvsf4t\"><\/span><span class=\"dcr-1qvd3m6\">The parking lot of Home Depot in the MacArthur Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, on 10 June.<\/span> Photograph: Aleksey Kondratyev\/The Guardian<\/figcaption><\/span><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"--grid-area:border\" data-gu-name=\"border\" class=\"dcr-1fnjjtg\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"--grid-area:headline\" data-gu-name=\"headline\" class=\"dcr-1fnjjtg\">\n<div class=\"dcr-14emo0l\">\n<div class=\"dcr-1jwoxwb\">\n<h1 class=\"dcr-1k1a1x\">A year after ICE raids terrorized Los Angeles, a rattled city counts its scars: \u2018The arrests never really stopped\u2019<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"--grid-area:standfirst\" data-gu-name=\"standfirst\" class=\"dcr-1fnjjtg\">\n<div class=\"dcr-cj4vxp\">\n<p>Thousand of arrests last summer led to mass protests and some deaths \u2013 across the city, communities bear the scars<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"--grid-area:body\" data-gu-name=\"body\" class=\"dcr-pzh79o\">\n<div class=\"dcr-1a4fred\">\n<div id=\"maincontent\" class=\"dcr-ydnaza\">\n<div class=\"article-body-commercial-selector article-body-viewer-selector dcr-6d4g12\">\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Most people in Brian Gavidia\u2019s life haven\u2019t seemed to notice that a year has passed since armed federal immigration agents descended on their city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">In East <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/los-angeles\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Los Angeles<\/a>, in the neighborhood where he was born and has lived his whole life, the scene this week appeared more or less normal. A family in formalwear settled into the big round table at the <em>torta ahogada<\/em> restaurant for a post-graduation celebration. The vendors selling fruit or flowers or perfumes were once again lining the streets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cIt makes me happy, to hear music playing, to see that little girl playing,\u201d he said. \u201cBut also, it\u2019s not the same.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">His mind still flashes back to the day that agents came to his workplace, pinned him against a gate and refused to accept that he was a US citizen. His skin prickles each time he spots a white van with tinted windows \u2013 could it be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ice-us-immigration-and-customs-enforcement\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">ICE<\/a> again?<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The raids last summer brought a massive influx of ICE and border patrol agents, as well as an unprecedented incursion of national guard troops, into Los Angeles, which is home to the largest undocumented population of any US city. Angelenos took to the streets in protest. Several immigrants died while being chased down. Lawyers scrambled to locate and help detained people before Immigration and Customs Enforcement swiftly transferred them out of state, or removed them from the country. Mutual aid networks sprang up across the region to help immigrants who were too afraid to leave their homes.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"e27872b8-a192-473b-8238-a8a8829fdc50\" data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.ImageBlockElement\" class=\"dcr-173mewl\">\n<div id=\"img-2\" class=\"dcr-1t8m8f2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A man in a suit stands for a portrait against a yellow and orange gradient background.\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/6657aac75225dd3a25d4541bb384df7008c9ac9d\/0_0_2705_3500\/master\/2705.jpg?width=445&amp;dpr=1&amp;s=none&amp;crop=none\" width=\"445\" height=\"575.7855822550831\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"dcr-evn1e9\"><a href=\"#img-2\" data-ignore=\"global-link-styling\" class=\"open-lightbox dcr-13fd1ms\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><button data-element-id=\"e27872b8-a192-473b-8238-a8a8829fdc50\" type=\"button\" class=\"open-lightbox dcr-4tmywn\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><span class=\"dcr-194i6pr\">View image in fullscreen<\/span><\/button><\/a><\/div><figcaption data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" class=\"dcr-fd61eq\"><span class=\"dcr-1inf02i\"><\/span><span class=\"dcr-1qvd3m6\">Brian Gavidia in East Los Angeles.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The raids also marked a turning point in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-administration\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Trump administration<\/a>\u2019s immigration crusade. The caravans of agents who swept through LA, seizing workers at car washes and garment warehouses and raiding churches eventually moved on to Chicago, Portland, Washington DC and Minneapolis, escalating their tactics at each stop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">One year later, Los Angeles has been left with some scars, some open wounds. Many Angelenos\u2019 lives have been permanently changed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Lorena \u2013 who stayed indoors for weeks as roving patrols made arrests along her street \u2013 is back to selling her tamales in Koreatown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Yurien, who saw her father outside his workplace in LA\u2019s fashion district handcuffed, chained from the waist and ankles and whisked away by agents, is haunted by the image.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Noemi and her husband used to get ready together before she headed to work at LA international airport; now he calls her on the phone at 8am with a morning greeting \u2013 from Mexico, where he was deported last June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Angelenos have adapted, they have adjusted and they have persevered, said Elizabeth Brennan of the Warehouse Workers Resource Center, a local advocacy group: \u201cBut if you start to look close, it\u2019s like we have little missing teeth, everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr class=\"dcr-z9ge1j\">\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><span style=\"color:var(--drop-cap);font-weight:500\" class=\"dcr-15rw6c2\">A<\/span>lmost exactly a year ago \u2013 on 12 June \u2013 Gavidia was at work in his car lot when immigration agents rushed in, pinned him against the gate and asked him to name the hospital where he was born. His story became part of a class-action lawsuit challenging ICE\u2019s racial profiling of Angelenos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">After that day, everything in his life turned upside down. Federal agents kept coming back to the neighborhood. Business declined, and it felt unsafe to work. He had to close his used-car refurbishing business and dealership. \u201cFor the first time in seven years, I had to look for a job, and work for somebody else,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">He saw neighbors and childhood friends targeted by roving patrols, and he had to tell his nine-year-old daughter \u2013 who lives with her mother in Portland \u2013 she couldn\u2019t come spend the summer with him, as she usually does. \u201cIt was painful,\u201d he said. \u201cBut it wasn\u2019t safe for her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">He started to feel heartened in July after a federal court ordered federal agents to halt their indiscriminate raids and the racial profiling. Then, in September, the supreme court <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/sep\/08\/trump-supreme-court-ice-immigration-california\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">overturned the ruling<\/a>. \u201cI was devastated,\u201d Gavidia said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The American Civil Liberties Union, alongside a coalition of immigrant rights groups, are still challenging <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/sep\/09\/supreme-court-immigration-los-angeles-reaction\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">that result<\/a> and have submitted an amended legal complaint. Gavidia said he wants to keep sharing his story until the racial profiling stops.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cI feel a responsibility,\u201d he said. \u201cI want us all to feel safe again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">But it\u2019s hard, he said, not knowing when that will be.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"a7cfdf79-7464-4bed-887f-71bd3dabc731\" data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.ImageBlockElement\" class=\"dcr-173mewl\">\n<div id=\"img-3\" class=\"dcr-1t8m8f2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A view of a home depot store front, orange carts in the foreground\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e6ff385039792cbd0ca71ca473aa3e3fba496cc4\/0_0_2705_3500\/master\/2705.jpg?width=445&amp;dpr=1&amp;s=none&amp;crop=none\" width=\"445\" height=\"575.7855822550831\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"dcr-evn1e9\"><a href=\"#img-3\" data-ignore=\"global-link-styling\" class=\"open-lightbox dcr-13fd1ms\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><button data-element-id=\"a7cfdf79-7464-4bed-887f-71bd3dabc731\" type=\"button\" class=\"open-lightbox dcr-4tmywn\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><span class=\"dcr-194i6pr\">View image in fullscreen<\/span><\/button><\/a><\/div><figcaption data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" class=\"dcr-fd61eq\"><span class=\"dcr-1inf02i\"><\/span><span class=\"dcr-1qvd3m6\">The parking lot of a Home Depot in the MacArthur Park neighborhood of Los Angeles.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">In central LA, a few day laborers were standing outside a Home Depot in MacArthur Park, looking to pick up odd jobs installing siding, or painting or landscaping. Some were chatting about how Donald Trump had just signed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/10\/trump-signs-70-billion-dollar-immigration-act-ice\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">a $70bn funding package<\/a> from immigration enforcement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Immigration agents had targeted dozens of Home Depots across LA last summer \u2013 after Stephen Miller, the architect of the administration\u2019s immigration policies \u2013 ordered them to sweep up undocumented workers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">On 6 June last year, masked federal agents came to the MacArthur Park Home Depot in a fleet of white vans, ambushed workers and whisked away nearly two dozen people. In August, despite a federal court <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jul\/12\/trump-administration-ordered-to-halt-indiscriminate-immigration-stops-in-california-over-racial-profiling-concerns\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">order<\/a> halting indiscriminate raids in the region, border patrol agents came back to the same Home Depot \u2013 this time, in a yellow rental truck. The driver told workers he had jobs to offer; then, masked agents <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/aug\/06\/ice-border-patrol-home-depot-los-angeles\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">jumped out of the back<\/a> and started making arrests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cUntil the mandate of the president ends, we are going to be in danger,\u201d said Frederico, 62, a laborer and security guard who was at the construction store looking for jobs. \u201cIt hasn\u2019t been safe since then, and it\u2019s not safe now.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"20cdb583-b958-4b4f-a5a3-6b00417d2568\" data-spacefinder-role=\"immersive\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.ImageBlockElement\" class=\"dcr-imskkt\">\n<div id=\"img-4\" class=\"dcr-1t8m8f2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A person stands in a street with a flouresecent vest and flag\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/364e0045167d6ff87d746b764668893d570d5cbe\/0_0_3500_2705\/master\/3500.jpg?width=465&amp;dpr=1&amp;s=none&amp;crop=none\" width=\"465\" height=\"359.37857142857143\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"dcr-evn1e9\"><a href=\"#img-4\" data-ignore=\"global-link-styling\" class=\"open-lightbox dcr-13fd1ms\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><button data-element-id=\"20cdb583-b958-4b4f-a5a3-6b00417d2568\" type=\"button\" class=\"open-lightbox dcr-4tmywn\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><span class=\"dcr-194i6pr\">View image in fullscreen<\/span><\/button><\/a><\/div><figcaption data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" class=\"dcr-1tdqfl9\"><span class=\"dcr-1inf02i\"><\/span><span class=\"dcr-1qvd3m6\">The fashion district, the site of ICE raids last year.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Frederico came to the US from Guatemala in 1998 and has been living and working in LA ever since. Fewer and fewer workers have been coming here, he said, and there are fewer jobs: \u201cBusinesses have closed, people no longer want to build, they no longer want to spend, to invest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A couple of miles away, in the fashion district, a few people peruse rolls of colorful fabrics and browse the racks of ready-to-wear apparel. Here, too, the shadow of the raids lingers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">June used to be a busy season here, said Antonio, 52, who co-owns a fabric shop with his wife, Alma: \u201cEspecially in this season, people are everywhere shopping. Graduations, graduations, parties, parties, parties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">But the neighbourhood, which is home to hundreds of fabric shops, ateliers, tailors and clothing factories run by and employing immigrants, was one of the first to be targeted by agents last year.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"7cdbf004-b05a-4f4a-be8b-ccd2e88d4d47\" data-spacefinder-role=\"showcase\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.ImageBlockElement\" class=\"dcr-5h0uf4\">\n<div id=\"img-5\" class=\"dcr-1t8m8f2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rolls of fabric in front of a brick fabric storefront\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/d5fc444b35c375246f98cce5f75d7013f1c7fdad\/0_0_3500_2705\/master\/3500.jpg?width=445&amp;dpr=1&amp;s=none&amp;crop=none\" width=\"445\" height=\"343.9214285714286\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"dcr-evn1e9\"><a href=\"#img-5\" data-ignore=\"global-link-styling\" class=\"open-lightbox dcr-13fd1ms\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><button data-element-id=\"7cdbf004-b05a-4f4a-be8b-ccd2e88d4d47\" type=\"button\" class=\"open-lightbox dcr-4tmywn\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><span class=\"dcr-194i6pr\">View image in fullscreen<\/span><\/button><\/a><\/div><figcaption data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" class=\"dcr-9ktzqp\"><span class=\"dcr-1inf02i\"><\/span><span class=\"dcr-1qvd3m6\">Antonio\u2019s Fabric, in the fashion district.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">In a single swoop on 6 June, agents arrested dozens of workers \u2013 many of them from the Indigenous Zapotec community \u2013 at Ambiance Apparel, a large manufacturer and retailer in the district. Fourteen members of Citlali Fermin\u2019s family were arrested that day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">In the months afterwards, 11 were released after organizers and family members launched a public campaign called Lucha Zapoteca. \u201cOne was deported after he was coerced into signing documents under false pretenses.One decided to exit due to the inhumane conditions in detention Lastly, our last relative decided to exit after six months in detention,\u201d said Fermin, who is also an organizer with Trabajadores Unidos Workers United.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Antonio remembers when that raid happened. He was at his store, finalizing a large order: 20 rolls of fabric, each of which cost $200-$300. That\u2019s when news started to spread that federal agents had arrived.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Antonio\u2019s client called him shortly after to cancel the order. Since then, sales have gone down about 85%, he says: \u201cIt\u2019s a drastic change.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"9a2ff0e3-5bc6-4c0e-aef5-34a8f5794613\" data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.ImageBlockElement\" class=\"dcr-173mewl\">\n<div id=\"img-6\" class=\"dcr-1t8m8f2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A white and gray concrete building facade with the word \u201cambiance\u201d engraved\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/826c9cccc3a96969c91ac1e2d9de733daf048bfe\/0_0_3500_2705\/master\/3500.jpg?width=445&amp;dpr=1&amp;s=none&amp;crop=none\" width=\"445\" height=\"343.9214285714286\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"dcr-evn1e9\"><a href=\"#img-6\" data-ignore=\"global-link-styling\" class=\"open-lightbox dcr-13fd1ms\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><button data-element-id=\"9a2ff0e3-5bc6-4c0e-aef5-34a8f5794613\" type=\"button\" class=\"open-lightbox dcr-4tmywn\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><span class=\"dcr-194i6pr\">View image in fullscreen<\/span><\/button><\/a><\/div><figcaption data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" class=\"dcr-fd61eq\"><span class=\"dcr-1inf02i\"><\/span><span class=\"dcr-1qvd3m6\">The Ambiance factory, the target of an ICE raid last year.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<hr class=\"dcr-z9ge1j\">\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">It is not only Los Angeles that has changed since the raids \u2013 it\u2019s the whole immigration system, said Melissa Shepard, director of legal services at the legal aid non-profit ImmDef.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Though it is uncommon now to see roving caravans of agents patrolling LA, people are still being detained. Often, this is at immigration check-in appointments. But Shepard and other attorneys and advocates said people are still being arrested in targeted raids, or as bystanders at raids.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">She has heard of an Amazon driver detained after making a delivery to a military base. Jorge Nicol\u00e1s, a senior organizer at a day labor center called Central American Resource Center (Carecen), said he recently witnessed agents chasing a laborer into a Home Depot, and taking him away bloodied and in handcuffs.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"1f49a1cb-b828-4358-a52f-3c470c590c4e\" class=\"element element-interactive element--inline element-inline dcr-kibrkr\" data-alt=\"A graph with two overlapping lines from Jan 2024-Jan 2026, showing how many more people arrested had no criminal convictions than criminal convictions spiked in June\/July 2025, during the LA ICE raids.\" data-testid=\"interactive-element-A%20graph%20with%20two%20overlapping%20lines%20from%20Jan%202024-Jan%202026,%20showing%20how%20many%20more%20people%20arrested%20had%20no%20criminal%20convictions%20than%20criminal%20convictions%20spiked%20in%20June\/July%202025,%20during%20the%20LA%20ICE%20raids.\" data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\">\n<div data-name=\"placeholder\" class=\"dcr-ri3hap\"><\/div>\n<p><a data-name=\"placeholder\" href=\"https:\/\/interactive.guim.co.uk\/datawrapper\/embed\/BXDcb\/1\/\" class=\"dcr-1eupayo\">A graph with two overlapping lines from Jan 2024-Jan 2026, showing how many more people arrested had no criminal convictions than criminal convictions spiked in June\/July 2025, during the LA ICE raids.<\/a><\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cThe arrests never really stopped,\u201d Nicol\u00e1s said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The number of people in immigration detention in the LA area spiked when the raids began last June. Before the raids, fewer than 1,000 people were detained in ICE\u2019s Los Angeles area of responsibility on any given day; since then, the number has doubled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">At the Adelanto detention center, located in the high desert east of Los Angeles, detainees began a hunger strike in May to protest murky drinking water, moldy food and a lack of medical care. Many of those <a href=\"https:\/\/www.immdef.org\/blog\/adfhungerstrikedeportation\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">participating in the strike<\/a> alleged that they were zip-tied, and threatened with teargas and transfers to other ICE facilities, according to ImmDef. The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has denied there is a hunger strike.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"607fb477-3bf3-4609-a57b-21486907add4\" data-spacefinder-role=\"immersive\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.ImageBlockElement\" class=\"dcr-imskkt\">\n<div id=\"img-7\" class=\"dcr-1t8m8f2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sunflowers in the foreground of a large demonstration outside\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/87158413ec61763ed6492ff7feab8966024efa64\/0_0_5405_3603\/master\/5405.jpg?width=465&amp;dpr=1&amp;s=none&amp;crop=none\" width=\"465\" height=\"309.9713228492137\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"dcr-evn1e9\"><a href=\"#img-7\" data-ignore=\"global-link-styling\" class=\"open-lightbox dcr-13fd1ms\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><button data-element-id=\"607fb477-3bf3-4609-a57b-21486907add4\" type=\"button\" class=\"open-lightbox dcr-4tmywn\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><span class=\"dcr-194i6pr\">View image in fullscreen<\/span><\/button><\/a><\/div><figcaption data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" class=\"dcr-1tdqfl9\"><span class=\"dcr-1inf02i\"><\/span><span class=\"dcr-1qvd3m6\">A demonstration outside the Los Angeles federal building and the Metropolitan Detention Center in response to ICE raids, on 6 June 2025.<\/span> Photograph: Jason Armond\/Los Angeles Times\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cThe state of dysfunction of the detention centers is alarming,\u201d said Shepard. \u201cThey are being used as a deterrent and also as a punishment for immigrants.\u201d Conditions are so bad, she said, that many detainees feel pressured to accept deportation and give up their immigration cases, just so they can leave the detention system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">For immigrants inside detention, it has also become exponentially more difficult to secure a release through bond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The minimum bond amount is $1,500, but according to Shepard, judges are increasingly requiring bonds that are 10 times higher \u2013 at $15,000 or $20,000. Detainees have to pay the full amount in order to be released.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"488dba2b-5758-4f82-a881-b8df72f92207\" class=\"element element-interactive element--inline element-inline dcr-kibrkr\" data-alt=\"A graph with a red line from Jan 2024-Jan 2026, showing that, around June 2025, LA immigration detention levels more than doubled.\" data-testid=\"interactive-element-A%20graph%20with%20a%20red%20line%20from%20Jan%202024-Jan%202026,%20showing%20that,%20around%20June%202025,%20LA%20immigration%20detention%20levels%20more%20than%20doubled.\" data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\">\n<div data-name=\"placeholder\" class=\"dcr-ri3hap\"><\/div>\n<p><a data-name=\"placeholder\" href=\"https:\/\/interactive.guim.co.uk\/datawrapper\/embed\/PBRVL\/1\/\" class=\"dcr-1eupayo\">A graph with a red line from Jan 2024-Jan 2026, showing that, around June 2025, LA immigration detention levels more than doubled.<\/a><\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Jennifer Gutierrez, the executive director of Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice (Clue), a southern California-based non-profit, said her organization raised and spent at least $1.5m to help 150 immigrants pay their bonds. \u201cWe\u2019ve got a long list of applicants who are waiting for their bonds to be paid,\u201d she said. The government holds the bond until after immigration cases are closed. But the court system is severely backlogged; of the 150 bonds the group has paid on behalf of individuals, she added, they\u2019ve only gotten three back so far.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Gutierrez and Shepard were among dozens of activists, attorneys and Angelenos who testified at the People\u2019s Hearing on Immigration Enforcement, a public forum led by Rochelle Garza, chair of the US Commission on Civil Rights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cWhat we are seeing is a terrorizing of our communities,\u201d said Garza, who held a similar hearing in Minneapolis in March and another in Chicago in May.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"26745cd1-7768-4aae-be8d-65542624c1f4\" data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.ImageBlockElement\" class=\"dcr-173mewl\">\n<div id=\"img-8\" class=\"dcr-1t8m8f2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A man in a suit stands for a portrait in front of a colorful mural\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/1d9b707789f80f5bc1757cf8a6b97aca7d5da9d6\/0_0_2705_3500\/master\/2705.jpg?width=445&amp;dpr=1&amp;s=none&amp;crop=none\" width=\"445\" height=\"575.7855822550831\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"dcr-evn1e9\"><a href=\"#img-8\" data-ignore=\"global-link-styling\" class=\"open-lightbox dcr-13fd1ms\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><button data-element-id=\"26745cd1-7768-4aae-be8d-65542624c1f4\" type=\"button\" class=\"open-lightbox dcr-4tmywn\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><span class=\"dcr-194i6pr\">View image in fullscreen<\/span><\/button><\/a><\/div><figcaption data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" class=\"dcr-fd61eq\"><span class=\"dcr-1inf02i\"><\/span><span class=\"dcr-1qvd3m6\">Brian Gavidia in East Los Angeles.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Underlying the conversations that day was a big, open question of how and when Angelenos would receive some reprieve or reparations for what they experienced. Gavidia was one of the people who testified. \u201cI do believe a lot in America,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re not done fighting for our rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Afterwards, he shared some good news: he was getting ready to restart his used car business. \u201cI\u2019m excited. We have to keep building.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\n<li class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><em>The Guardian is using first names in some instances to protect people\u2019s safety and privacy<\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-print-layout=\"hide\" class=\"dcr-qxqnsy\"><span class=\"dcr-1rq3vad\">Explore more on these topics<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"dcr-1dzx48f\">\n<ul class=\"dcr-1xavc9x\">\n<li class=\"dcr-hj8byr\"><a href=\"\/us-news\/los-angeles\" class=\"dcr-1gwziyt\">Los Angeles<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"dcr-hj8byr\"><a href=\"\/us-news\/ice-us-immigration-and-customs-enforcement\" class=\"dcr-1gwziyt\">ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement)<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"dcr-hj8byr\"><a href=\"\/us-news\/usimmigration\" class=\"dcr-1gwziyt\">US immigration<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"dcr-hj8byr\"><a href=\"\/us-news\/trump-administration\" class=\"dcr-1gwziyt\">Trump administration<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"dcr-hj8byr\"><a href=\"\/us-news\/california\" class=\"dcr-1gwziyt\">California<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"dcr-hj8byr\"><a href=\"\/us-news\/west-coast\" class=\"dcr-1gwziyt\">West Coast<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"dcr-hj8byr\"><a href=\"\/us-news\/us-politics\" class=\"dcr-1gwziyt\">US politics<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"dcr-hj8byr\"><a href=\"\/tone\/features\" class=\"dcr-1gwziyt\">features<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"dcr-nu129i\"><a href=\"mailto:?subject=A%20year%20after%20ICE%20raids%20terrorized%20Los%20Angeles,%20a%20rattled%20city%20counts%20its%20scars:%20%E2%80%98The%20arrests%20never%20really%20stopped%E2%80%99&amp;body=https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/14\/one-year-later-los-angeles-ice-raids?CMP=share_btn_url\" class=\"dcr-125qj9d\">Share<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"dcr-zhx6xs\"><a data-link-name=\"meta-syndication-article\" href=\"https:\/\/syndication.theguardian.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fus-news%2F2026%2Fjun%2F14%2Fone-year-later-los-angeles-ice-raids&amp;type=article&amp;internalpagecode=us-news\/2026\/jun\/14\/one-year-later-los-angeles-ice-raids\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"Reuse this content\" class=\"dcr-14rjinq\">Reuse this content<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"--grid-area:right-column\" data-gu-name=\"right-column\" class=\"dcr-babllm\">\n<div class=\"dcr-jwg3xc\">\n<section class=\"dcr-1hko8ef\"><\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The parking lot of Home Depot in the MacArthur Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, on 10 June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}