June 2025, federal immigration enforcement agents have used federal property<\/a> \u2014 a Coast Guard base located on Terminal Island \u2014 as a staging area. McOsker said that for well over half a year their presence has been unsettling for families, workers and the community who want to live their lives in peace.<\/p>\n\u201cAlthough we do not know the reason for their departure, in moments like this, we will take any good news we can get. However, I want to urge everyone to remain vigilant and look out for your neighbors as indiscriminate raids are still occurring throughout L.A. County, even if these agents are no longer staging at Terminal Island,\u201d McOsker said in a statement.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n
When U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and Border Patrol officers began conducting operations in Southern California, residents have observed and captured their activity.<\/p>\n
Among these groups, Harbor Area residents launched the Harbor Area Peace Patrol to monitor and report ICE activity in their community.<\/p>\n
McOsker believed the federal government\u2019s decision to demobilize was in large part to the peace patrollers.<\/p>\n
\u201cDay after day, morning and afternoon, rain or shine, they showed up. They kept watch. They ensured that enforcement activity was not happening in the shadows. By documenting vehicles, photographing license plates, and sharing timely information with the broader community, they helped residents across the county stay informed and look out for one another,\u201d McOsker said in his statement.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am tremendously grateful to the Peace Patrollers and to all our community members who looked out for their neighbors, for their steady presence and their dedication to community safety,\u201d McOsker added. \u201cWe need to carry on that spirit in the months and years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Federal immigration enforcement agents were no longer staging from their base at Terminal Island in San Pedro, Los…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132,100,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-177321","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","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-stories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177321","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=177321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}