Immigrant rights organizers are planning significant protests over the next two days, including a relay in Los Angeles.
The “Run Against ICE Resistance Relay” will take place on Saturday from Koreatown to Placita Olvera. Those participating in the 15-mile route will go through communities that have witnessed raids and arrests by ICE agents.
The relay begins at Liberty Park at 3700 Wilshire Blvd. at 8 a.m.
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Angelica Salas with the Coalition for Humane Immigration Rights Los Angeles says an estimated 2,000 people have been arrested in the last 30 days.
“We are witnessing and getting reports of in-your-face racial profiling, abuses of power, assault, and harassment,” she said. “What was sold to us as to Americans as a way to make us safer has brought weapons of war into residential communities, with guns being pulled on bystanders, [and] warrantless arrest.”
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In a post on X on Wednesday, the Department of Homeland Security said that enforcement operations are “highly targeted.”
“Claims that individuals have been ‘targeted’ by law enforcement because of their skin color are DISGUSTING and categorically FALSE,” the post continued.
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