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Hundreds of anti-ICE protesters march through downtown Long Beach on Sunday, Jan. 25, 2026. Photo by Thomas R. Cordova.<\/p>\nApproximately 400 people marched through downtown Long Beach Sunday afternoon to protest the federal government\u2019s wave of aggressive immigration enforcement and agents\u2019 recent killing of a man they\u2019d wrestled to the ground in Minnesota.<\/p>\n
Protesters rallied at Pine Avenue and Third Street before taking to the streets, weaving along major roadways including Ocean Boulevard and Long Beach Boulevard, sometimes redirected by police lines.<\/p>\n
Hundreds of anti-ICE protesters march through downtown Long Beach on Sunday, Jan. 25, 2026. Photo by Thomas R. Cordova.<\/p>\n
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Long Beach police stand at Pine Avenue and Ocean Boulevard while anti-ICE protesters march through downtown Long Beach on Sunday, Jan. 25, 2026. Photo by Thomas R. Cordova.<\/p>\n
One resident of Alamitos Beach came with a sign she had repurposed from when she attended protests in Los Angeles over the summer, a time when President Donald Trump ordered the National Guard into the area<\/a>. \u201cI have about five signs since this president took office and started stomping all over the constitution, the rule of law, due process, kidnapping people \u2014 killing people now,\u201d she said.<\/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 Immigration and Customs Enforcement leave their own communities.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are heartbroken. But we are also angry,\u201d said Priscilla, a Cal State Long Beach student who spoke to the crowd in Long Beach through a megaphone.\u00a0\u201cThis is how we must honor our martyrs. We must use our anger to organize.\u201d<\/p>\n While not currently on the scale of what\u2019s happening in Minnesota, federal agents have continued ramped-up enforcement in Long Beach. 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 Good.<\/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 At about 4 p.m., protesters began leaving downtown. 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Anti-ICE protesters march on Long Beach Blvd. Avenue in downtown Long Beach on Sunday, Jan. 25, 2026. Photo by Thomas R. Cordova.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1-25-26-protest-7-714761-mj9a5zdc-303428-rRGsPFL3-1024x598.jpg\")
Anthony Ramirez shows his posters as he marches with anti-ICE protesters in downtown Long Beach on Sunday, Jan. 25, 2026. Photo by Thomas R. Cordova.<\/p>\n