Approximately 200 protestors had gathered at the intersection of Pine and Third Street as of 3 p.m. on Sunday to protest Immigration and Customs Enforcement.<\/p>\n
The protest, organized by the Party of Socialism and Liberation, comes after federal agents fatally shot two people this month in Minneapolis, where approximately 3,000 federal immigration agents are deployed in the \u201clargest DHS operation ever,\u201d<\/a> according to the Department of Homeland Security.<\/p>\n Tensions in Minneapolis were already high after agents killed 37-year-old Renee Good, who appeared to be steering away from agents trying to remove her from her car on Jan. 7. On Saturday, agents pinned down, disarmed and then shot Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a 37-year-old nurse, who\u2019d approached them holding a camera. Trump administration officials quickly labeled Good and Pretti \u201cdomestic terrorists\u201d who were intent on killing or injuring immigration agents despite video evidence that appears to contradict this.<\/p>\n On Friday, thousands<\/a> weathered subzero temperatures in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, demanding Immigration and Customs Enforcement end their operation; hundreds of businesses shuttered in solidarity as part of a general strike.<\/p>\n Other cities \u2014 including Los Angeles<\/a> and Long Beach \u2014 have held vigils and protests in solidarity, and to demand ICE leave their own communities.<\/p>\n While not currently on the scale of what\u2019s happening in Minnesota, in Long Beach, federal agents have continued ramped-up enforcement. They conducted a raid on Tuesday<\/a>, seizing two men who were working as gardeners in the University Park Estates neighborhood \u2014 including one who said he was a U.S. citizen. DHS has not responded to the Long Beach Post\u2019s request for information about Tuesday\u2019s events.<\/p>\n Elected leaders of Long Beach denounced Pretti\u2019s killing. \u201cDHS agents have murdered a man on the street in Minnesota,\u201d said Congresswoman Nanette Barrag\u00e1n, who represents parts of Long Beach and San Pedro. \u201cDonald Trump and DHS are making our country more dangerous,\u201d she wrote on X.<\/a><\/p>\n Congressman Robert Garcia, who represents Long Beach, took his strongest stance yet. \u201cKristi Noem must be impeached. ICE must be abolished. Democrats in the Senate cannot fund DHS,\u201d he wrote on X. \u201cThese agents need to leave our cities NOW,\u201d he wrote. Garcia has previously called for an independent investigation<\/a> into ICE\u2019s killing of Renee Good, also in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n Mayor Rex Richardson called federal agents\u2019 shooting of Pretti on Saturday \u201cinexcusable\u201d and said it reflected the \u201cdangerous consequences of unchecked federal overreach in our communities.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Approximately 200 protestors had gathered at the intersection of Pine and Third Street as of 3 p.m. on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-149354","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-long-beach","9":"tag-long-beach-headlines","10":"tag-long-beach-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149354","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=149354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}