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LA Latinos hunker down before planned ICE raids: ‘Everybody is scared’
NY Post ^ | 2/11/25 | Jared Downing

Posted on 02/11/2025 10:23:59 PM PST by Libloather

President Trump’s immigration crackdown and reports of an impending federal sting operation have sent waves of fear through Los Angeles’ Latino community — and even legal residents are on the lookout for the feds.

Following leaked documents revealing plans for a citywide Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid at the end of the month, nervous Central and South Americans have been afraid to shop, use public transportation or drop their kids off at school, local sources told The Post.

Legal residents with prior criminal convictions are also worried about being nabbed and deported, and even those with clean records have been watching their steps, said Lorena Sanchez, the daughter of Mexican immigrants who works for a nonprofit housing organization.

“The overall feeling is that, whether legal or not, everybody is scared,” she said. “Our clients are asking, ‘What if they stop me? I’m on probation.’ You might be detained, or your children, or your neighbors.”

Some are hesitant to ride public transportation or even go to church due to a Trump administration policy allowing immigration agents to raid houses of worship.

Parents are scared to take their kids to school, worried that ICE agents will be waiting in ambush.

“People fear that there is going to be separation of families, and not even the schools are safe spaces,” said Cgicuei Dominguez, a student in a predominantly Latino high school.

“I’m safe, but I have family and close friends who aren’t. Nobody wants to lose and aunt or an uncle,” he added.

As customers stay home, Latino businesses in the City of Angels are feeling the pinch.

“Because of the fear, our store is empty,” said Sandra Tello, a Guatemalan immigrant who co-owns a mariachi costume shop in the historic Latino neighborhood of Boyle Heights.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; History; Local News
KEYWORDS: aliens; california; crimmigrants; gohome; ice; mds; obeythelaw; raids; scared; tds; thatsashame; waaambulance
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"People with papers might have a criminal record and they’re worried they could get into trouble,” Tello said.

I wonder if Sandra has any tips on how to survive being an illegal alien down in good ol' Guatemala.

1 posted on 02/11/2025 10:23:59 PM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather

When I lived in Los Angeles I was always scared of the mexicants so there you go.


2 posted on 02/11/2025 10:30:50 PM PST by Strict9
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To: Libloather

Fear is a good thing.


3 posted on 02/11/2025 10:33:23 PM PST by Gaffer (r)
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To: Libloather

Who’s afraid of ICE? Call ICEBusters. 📲☎️💨💨💨💨👻👻🕵️🕵️

They’ll tip you off so 79 people will be gone when the authorities arrive. And judges will put injunctions in place to bottle up the whole thing for 4 years.


4 posted on 02/11/2025 10:37:05 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: Libloather

The headline is racist, immigration enforcement doesn’t make all black Americans, or all white Americans, or all latino Americans, or all asian Americans worry about themselves but it does probably worry the illegals of any and all races and from any and all countries.


5 posted on 02/11/2025 10:37:37 PM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Libloather

Hi.

The feel good articles just keep coming at break neck speed.

5.56mm


6 posted on 02/11/2025 10:41:33 PM PST by M Kehoe (Thank you Jesus. )
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To: ansel12

Exactly.


7 posted on 02/11/2025 10:43:26 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Gaffer

In this case, yes.


8 posted on 02/11/2025 10:43:55 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Libloather

Self deport and the fear will vanish. GTFO!


9 posted on 02/11/2025 10:50:49 PM PST by albie (U)
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To: Libloather

Scared is good. I like scared.


10 posted on 02/11/2025 10:51:42 PM PST by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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To: albie

Well said.


11 posted on 02/11/2025 10:54:13 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Nervous Tick

I love that the illegal aliens are scared. Now if only they would pull an E.T and go home!


12 posted on 02/11/2025 10:54:50 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Libloather

“People with papers might have a criminal record and they’re worried they could get into trouble,”

…uh excuse me?!


13 posted on 02/11/2025 10:55:48 PM PST by albie (U)
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To: Libloather

As a Cuban immigrant — perhaps legal, perhaps not — how do YOU feel about this?

— ICE

🤣😂🤣


14 posted on 02/11/2025 10:55:52 PM PST by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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To: Libloather

Oh, and the crime rate?


15 posted on 02/11/2025 10:57:40 PM PST by Ex gun maker. (Free thinking is now a radical concept, I will not be assimilated by PC or EV group-think!)
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To: Libloather

Self deportation is a great option.
Use it.


16 posted on 02/11/2025 11:03:26 PM PST by griffin (When you have to shoot, SHOOT; don't talk. -Tuco)
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To: Strict9

I lived for a while in a place in SE LA county.
it was predominately illegals and old white people,
Paramount CA.
Nice quiet neighborhood, They did not want to attract police.
I remember the neighborhood kids wearing suits and dresses
as they went to church on Sunday, much the same as when I was a kid.
Illegals I grew up with worked, very hard
just like me.
Problems arose when Democrats started to give “freebies”
to illegals and other races.


17 posted on 02/11/2025 11:08:45 PM PST by rellic (No such thing as a moderate Moslem or Democrat )
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To: ansel12

The press, along with Democrat pols, are sowing fear in citizens and legal aliens by lying about what ICE is doing.


18 posted on 02/11/2025 11:36:36 PM PST by TigersEye (The Golden Age of MAGA is upon us! )
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To: Libloather

People fear that there is going to be separation of families,
No, no! You can all go back to old Mexico.


19 posted on 02/11/2025 11:42:19 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: Libloather

They should leave


20 posted on 02/11/2025 11:54:54 PM PST by Altura Ct.
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