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The power of the US military will be sharply on display this weekend – on two different coasts and in two very different ways.
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NBC Los Angeles on MSNSinger at Dodger Stadium sings the national anthem in Spanish as an act of defiance to protest ICE raids in Los AngelesLos Angeles is home to a reported 1.8 million Spanish-speaking residents, but rarely do they hear the national anthem sung in that language. On Saturday night at Dodger Stadium, with 51,548 fans on their feet and television cameras trained on the field,
Singer Nezza sang the national anthem in Spanish at Dodger Stadium, prompting varied reactions amid ICE raid tensions.
There has been a common thread this week in the Fashion District of Los Angeles, fear of raids by immigration agents. There are more than 4,000 independent businesses in the district, an area that depends on the labor of immigrants.
On June 13 a group of about 100 people gathered at Calle Olvera to kick off a community teach-in and unity march. Led by Shelley Bruce of the Heart Department, a BIPOC cultural programming organization, and 50+ other organizations, community members shared what brought them out and why it mattered.
The outburst of public dissent occurred over the weekend after ICE began raids across Los Angeles. ICE said on Saturday that its “operations in LA this week” had resulted in 118 arrests of immigrants in Southern California.
Los Angeles resident Adam Lerman, who has attended the protests, warned that protests would continue if the Trump administration pushes more raids in the city. “We are talking about a new riot ...
At Carnegie, the prospect of a raid was all anyone could talk about ... arrested since Friday in the immigration sweeps in ICE’s Los Angeles Area of Responsibility, which stretches from San ...
As millions of people were protesting the ongoing deportation operation, immigration thugs, backed by a helicopter, targeted the popular Latino street market in Sante Fe Springs.