ProPublica<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n\u201cTroublingly, the pattern of U.S. Citizen arrests coincides with an alarming increase in racial profiling \u2014 particularly of Latinos \u2014 which has been well documented in Los Angeles,\u201d Garcia and Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) wrote in a letter to Noem. \u201cIn a pattern symptomatic of a disregard for civil rights by DHS, U.S. citizens have faced extended periods of detention.\u201d<\/p>\n
For months, agents have roamed the streets of Los Angeles toting guns and chasing down immigrants. The scenes that have played out on the streets \u2014 protesters being arrested, immigrants dragged out of their cars \u2014 have been repeated in Chicago and other cities with largely Democratic leadership.<\/p>\n
Mayor Bass said the arrests of American citizens means that no one in the country is safe.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis can happen to anyone, to all of us, at any period of time,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Garcia said that the first hearing of the House committee will be held in Los Angeles and that Angelenos should attend and be heard on immigration enforcement issues.<\/p>\n
The congressman did not give a date for the hearing, but said he hoped it would be soon.<\/p>\n
In the letter that Garcia and Blumenthal sent to Noem on Monday, the legislators called on the Department of Homeland Security to report the total number of U.S. citizens who have been detained by immigration authorities, as well as how long each individual was detained. They also asked for information regarding the training that CE and Customs and Border Protection agents receive on use of force, among other things.<\/p>\n
The White House and the Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and congressional Democrats have announced a sweeping investigation into potential misconduct in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[237,12858,12857,12860,3982,14,4701,48,52,51,47,50,49,63,3906,12859,12855,1291,12856,4746],"class_list":{"0":"post-14572","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-arrest","9":"tag-bass","10":"tag-broad-investigation","11":"tag-extended-period","12":"tag-immigrant","13":"tag-immigration","14":"tag-kristi-noem","15":"tag-la","16":"tag-la-headlines","17":"tag-la-news","18":"tag-los-angeles","19":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","20":"tag-los-angeles-news","21":"tag-los-angeles-times","22":"tag-month","23":"tag-racial-profiling","24":"tag-robert-garcia","25":"tag-street","26":"tag-u-s-citizen","27":"tag-use"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}