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APProtesters confront police on the 101 Freeway near the Metropolitan Detention Center of downtown Los Angeles on June 8, 2025 following an immigration raid.<\/p>\nNational headlines may have shifted, but the impacts of President Donald Trump\u2019s mass deportation agenda are still being felt across Los Angeles.<\/p>\n
For many, it has devastated their financial, mental, and physical wellbeing. And as Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents still roam the city, the struggle is far from over.<\/p>\n
APProtesters confront police on the 101 Freeway near the Metropolitan Detention Center of downtown Los Angeles on June 8, 2025 following an immigration raid.<\/p>\n
\u201cSometimes I wake up in the middle of the night remembering what I endured during those 98 days,\u201d Carlos, a Honduran immigrant detained by ICE last June, said during the Hispanic Federation People\u2019s Hearing Monday.<\/p>\n
Carlos was held in California\u2019s Adelanto ICE Processing Center, where he contracted a bacterial infection that caused him to vomit blood. At one point, Carlos, who has a 17-year-old son, said that he was violently attacked.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was also nearly sexually assaulted,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Adelanto is one of many ICE facilities that\u2019s currently under scrutiny<\/a> for alleged abuse of immigrants. At one point, people held at Adelanto even went on a hunger strike<\/a>.<\/p>\n But now that he\u2019s back at home, Carlos is one of many immigrants reckoning with a new financial reality a year after the raids. For his family, all of their bills are piling up.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWe are not allowed to work, and what we want most is to live with dignity again as a family, in our own apartment,\u201d Carlos said.<\/p>\n And many other immigrant families feel similarly. For them, fear and financial insecurity loom.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are now gradually collapsing because we do not have enough income to keep our businesses going,\u201d Celida, a small business owner, shared at the panel. \u201cWe are behind on our bills, and the high costs of rent and merchandise have created a very serious impact on our businesses.\u201d<\/p>\n When ICE raided her community, Celida says that she was too afraid to open her store, causing her to lose significant business.\u00a0<\/p>\n Stories like Celida\u2019s and Carlos\u2019 are tragic, but they aren\u2019t uncommon. And despite living in a sanctuary city, many immigrants feel that the policies have failed them.<\/p>\n As the use of technology\u2014namely artificial intelligence\u2014has skyrocketed, so has its implementation in immigration enforcement.<\/p>\n According to Shiu-Ming Cheer, deputy director of immigrant and racial justice at the California Immigrant Policy Center, the current policies \u201cdo not address the growing area of concern about the collection of information about immigrants.\u201d<\/p>\n Surveillance systems developed by companies like Palantir<\/a> have allowed for ICE agents to use their phone cameras<\/a> to identify people. And with the approval of the Trump administration, ICE agents have also implemented automated license plate readers. Even more alarmingly, ICE has access to massive databases of citizens\u2019 and immigrants\u2019 private information.<\/p>\n But according to Cheer, there are other vulnerabilities. Police officers are not only permitted by the city to moonlight as ICE officers, but they also have a Homeland Security program<\/a> to partner with ICE agents. One bill has been proposed<\/a> to end this.<\/p>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/AP25185019658898.jpg\")
APA volunteer sets up an art installation displaying names and faces of people who have been detained, deported, or sent to offshore camps during ICE raids in Southern California on July 3, 2025.<\/p>\n