{"id":522402,"date":"2026-11-08T03:54:18","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T03:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/522402\/"},"modified":"2026-11-08T03:54:18","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T03:54:18","slug":"crowd-protests-ice-presence-at-boyle-heights-hospital-daily-bulletin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/522402\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowd protests ICE presence at Boyle Heights hospital \u2013 Daily Bulletin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Protesters gathered at a Boyle Heights hospital Saturday after reports that federal immigration agents were present at the medical facility Friday night.<\/p>\n

A march was held Saturday afternoon from Mariachi Plaza to Adventist Health White Memorial at 1720 E. Cesar E. Chavez Ave. The march included among others, state Sen. Mar\u00eda Elena Durazo, D-Los Angeles, the Boyle Heights Immigrant Rights Network and various community advocates.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat happened last night was unacceptable,\u201d Durazo said during the protest. \u201cIt\u2019s unacceptable that ICE would go into our health care facilities. But we also believe that White Memorial can and should do more.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hospital officials told reporters that federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents transported someone in their custody to the facility\u2019s emergency department Friday to receive care for undisclosed reasons.<\/p>\n

Hospital officials told NBC Los Angeles<\/a> that the blockade forced ambulances to send patients to other hospitals for about two hours.<\/p>\n

In a statement, a hospital spokesperson told NBC that the hospital \u201cdid not request nor authorize\u201d ICE agents to form a line blocking the ambulance entrance.<\/p>\n

The hospital does not participate in immigration enforcement and protects the immigration status of its patients, the statement read.<\/p>\n

After neighbors saw ICE agents at the hospital on Friday night, a tense standoff ensued, the station reported.<\/p>\n

The Los Angeles Police Department was called to the hospital after a protest broke out Friday night, but they said they did not assist with any immigration enforcement operations.<\/p>\n

No arrests were made and no one was detained by police.<\/p>\n

Protesters on Saturday called for answers from the hospital about how it works with ICE and for White Memorial to do more for vulnerable members of the community who are seeking care, NBC reported.<\/p>\n

Mayor-elect Nithya Raman attended Saturday\u2019s protest, telling a crowd that she was there to \u201cstand in solidarity with Boyle Heights residents and every single member of this community to say \u2018ICE out of Boyle Heights.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Mayor Karen Bass issued the following statement Saturday afternoon:<\/p>\n

\u201cOvernight, federal immigration agents gathered in force outside of the ambulance bay at Adventist Health White Memorial Medical Center in Boyle Heights, effectively sealing off a critical entrance. For patients and families in medical crises, that presence was frightening at the worst possible moment. A hospital should be the one place where people feel safe. No one should have to think twice about receiving care or fear that a loved one\u2019s treatment could be interrupted because of their immigration status.<\/p>\n

\u201cI condemn ICE\u2019s action and call on the Trump administration to stop all immigration enforcement in and around health care facilities. Hospital leadership also had a duty to step in right away to protect patients and neighbors, and by all appearances, that did not happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a statement to the Southern California News Group, a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson declined to give further information on the ICE agents\u2019 presence at the hospital and said the agency \u201cdoes not target hospitals, schools or churches.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is just another false narrative to try to demonize our brave ICE law enforcement,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Protesters gathered at a Boyle Heights hospital Saturday after reports that federal immigration agents were present at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[150833,7,723,138,48,52,51,47,137,50,49,100,136],"class_list":["post-522402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-boyle-heights-los-angeles","tag-california","tag-crime","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-county","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-news","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522402","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=522402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}