ICE raid fears upend life in L.A. County, from schools to Home Depot

Hundreds of eighth grade students in fresh ironing shirts and flowing dresses were opened to Andrew Carnegie Secondary School with their families on Tuesday morning with their families.

However, the graduation festivals at the school in Carson had an ominous lower tone, as the US migration and customs were spread before the event that could gain an unwanted appearance.

Nervous parents and educators looked at the practices dedicated to monitoring ice activity, renewed their social media publications and gave each other about the latest rumors. Some students who are expected to participate in the event did not come to the stage where their names were called. They chose to stay at home without fear that they or their loved ones would be detained.

Similar scenes have recently been played in Los Angeles County and have been discussed in flocks of federal agents to detain immigrants.

In neighborhoods with a large population of foreign -born people in the region, a grocery store or school quitting trip represented another potential moment in the lives built in this country.

On Tuesday, within a few hours, unrefined messages released rapidly spread warnings about the ice agents identified near schools, hotels and hardware stores, and led to panic and deterioration.

In Carnegie, the possibility of a raid was the only thing everyone could talk about.

The school sent a message to parents and students in front of the event that “all the guests will be accepted immediately to the campus – will not wait outside – because of the ongoing concerns about the Internal Security Department (ICE) in our society”.

48 -year -old Meteisha Madden Toby was on Tuesday morning to celebrate the graduation of his 14 -year -old daughter Zoe.

“This bitter sweet because it had to be a celebration moment, and it was in the shadow by fear, Anne Anne said. “Your friend or friend can close.

In addition to Anthony Garcia, Gardena High School Gardena High School Junior Chris Alvarez, Gardena High School Junior Chris Alvarez in Gardena on Tuesday, said:

Federal agents – usually in civilian and unprecedented vehicles – in recent weeks, La County has raided its businesses, homes and even an underground nightclub and detained scores in the process, including children.

At the beginning of this month, ICE detained a Torrance Primary School who was transferred to an immigration facility in Texas. Federal officials have deported his 9 -year -old child and father to Honduras since then.

Many events caught in the video showed that he confronted people on the streets in La County – in some cases, seemingly randomly looked randomly and rapidly flapping them, shocking that he did not offer any explanation to his loved ones and audiences. The images reviewed by The Times showed a market raid where unidentified law enforcement officers detained a fruit seller in Westchester.

Ilar They pressed him to the ground, pulled the guns, so nobody wouldn’t get closer to help him. He seemed to have been kidnapped, 45 he said.

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Yuliza Barraza, a resident of Los Angeles, turned into a parking lot of a merchant Joe in Westchester last Sunday, and noticed unidentified agents struggling with a fruit seller around the corner. He immediately began to shoot and then described it as kidnapping.

The White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said that during a press briefing on Wednesday, 330 people have been arrested since Friday in the Ice’s Los Angeles responsibility area, extending from San Luis Obispo to San Diego.

ICE Photos shared on social media Tuesday shows the armed members of immigration agents accompanying La Raids. Recently, Trump has announced a total of 700 US Maritime and 4,000 National Guard Union to respond to protests and support federal operations.

Gov. Gavin Newsom and La Mayor Karen Bass demanded a detection, but in vain. Bass called Trump to “stop raids” A news conference Tuesday.

“When we don’t know when, we never know how long they will take,” he said. “But this concept creates such a terrible sense of fear in our city, and it is not right to make it to a population trying to survive.”

Journalists spent most of the day to document La County’s southern access, the deterioration and trauma caused by the ice ghost everywhere. Following the warnings shared in various products of online platforms, journalists visited foreign -born communities such as Carson, Torrance, Gardena, Compton, Bell Gardens and Long Beach and nearby neighborhoods in La city

Many people were at the border, even US citizens were at risk of deportation. In a care facility for adults with disabilities in Torrance, he refused to remove his name from fear of retaliation-Apart from the fact that he did not see a warning about an ice view sent to the ICE block, one of the applications of federal actions, which was created by the user.

However, in a half Whisper, a friend told us that he had identified customs and border protection agents on a settlement street, a few blocks away. It was unclear whether no one was detained and detained in the region.

“What they do is very scary,” he said.

The Los Angeles Human Rights Coalition Executive Director Angelica Salas described sweeping as an unprecedented “application Blitz ği in which people are targeted“ randomly ”. He said that his organization has received 3,000 service calls since Thursday.

In Signal Hill, a handful of days of a handful of workers, who were assigned on a grass patch near a home tank in the afternoon on Tuesday, were cheerful and almost challenged.

Orum I’m not worried, ”one of the men said, trucks loaded with heavy timber passed through the past. However, he refused to give the name of the immigrant agents to follow him.

Andrew Carnegie Middle’s graduation in Carson finally went without interruptions of law enforcement officers. However, at the last minute, the participants said that they wanted them to appear at 7:30 in the morning at 8:00 in the morning to avoid confrontation with ice outside the school.

Zoe Toby, who wore a black class of 2025 Sash and Mavi Lei and Mavi Lei on his gray blue dress to celebrate his last day at Carnegie, said, “They changed their graduation time because they were worried about the closure and taking of people.” “This is scary because you never know when it will happen.”

During the ceremony, some parents received notification that immigrant enforcement officers were seen near the school through Ice Block application and social media. No one detained was confirmed.

Zoe said that some of his friends are concerned about being taken by federal agents every day. Many of them received red cards from the school, he added and added a picture on one of the many posters adorned with the words “This class is a safe area for immigrants”, which he said it was published on the middle school walls.

“I’m in Nextdoor, Z Zoe’s mother added,“ Every day neighbors warn each other ”.

Gardena police officers, Gardena High School graduates look carefully on Tuesday as you mix with your family and friends.

Later in Tuesday, in their first moments, as high school graduates, hundreds of young people in the streets next to Gardena High School and the aprons were poured. As in Carson, the roadside vendors sold snacks and flower bouquets as people smiled and embraced each other.

Chris Alvarez, a young man, was there to celebrate the graduation of his 18 -year -old cousin Anthony Garcia. Between his friends and relatives and jokes, 17 -year -old Chris said he was “really worried about Ice, but was horrified by online warnings that the agents were identified near his school early on Tuesday.

“It is not fair for these children to put all these times and efforts into schools only to worry about the safety and safety of their families and friends,” he said. “This must be a celebration.”

For Orlando Johnson, Director of Susan Miller Senior High School in Southern Los Angeles, security is very important in the midst of the ongoing threat of immigration pressure.

“The focus is just to protect our families and to protect our students. We don’t know which information is not real and real, T said Tuesday. “I think everyone is worried.”

Times personnel writers Andrea Castillo and Rachel Uranga and La Times Studio Senior Producer Karen Foshay contributed to this report.