Federal agents continued immigration raids in Los Angeles, with the latest raid taking place in the Fashion District on Thursday.
It happened around 11 a.m. near 11th St. and Maple Ave., according to NBC Los Angeles.
Video posted by Union Del Barrio showed agents at Santee Alley.
In an interview with KNX News, Mayor Karen Bass said that several people were detained, but added that she did not know the exact number of people detained.
“I just have to say that the Fashion District has not recovered from the raids last year in terms of people, not being comfortable in going to work because they were fearful of businesses that have been negatively impacted,” she said. “And so the harm that this does to individual families and all is devastating.”
On Friday morning, KNX News’ Jon Baird went to the area and reported that some of the shop owners were rolling up those steel doors a little later in the morning, while others stayed closed.
“We were just driving down, and we didn't see a lot of the shops open, so that kind of speaks for itself, right?” one man told Baird.
Another man told Baird he was there when a raid took place at the Home Depot near MacArthur Park in August.
“I mean, I saw the look on some of those people's faces, and it looked like it was death in front of them,” he said.
He said he believes ICE agents are “picking and drawing who they want.
“I live in East L.A., [a] predominantly Latino community, and everybody's horrified there,” he said. “And me being an American citizen born here, fifth generation, I have no worries. But the color of my skin who they could stereotype me. There are always doubts that I have in my mind that they could pull me over or stop me at any time.”
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