How L.A. Raids Ignited a New Fight Over Immigration

The New York Times ^ | June 14, 2025 Updated 9:28 a.m. ET | Miriam Jordan, Soumya Karlamangla, Shawn Hubler, Emily Baumgaertner Nunn, Orlando Mayorquín, Matt St

[E. Pluribus Unum]

It was the morning shift at Ambiance Apparel, a clothing wholesaler on the edge of Los Angeles’s fashion district, and along with a crowded showroom of mannequins and women’s skirts was a sprawling warehouse, where immigrant workers were bustling about.

On any other day, the inventory would have flowed smoothly, from folded piles to cardboard boxes stacked on wooden pallets to be loaded onto trucks. But on June 6, as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents swarmed the premises, dozens of employees at the warehouse and at a second facility nearby fled their workstations, ducking between shelves and inside boxes.

They couldn’t hide for long.

One of the workers, Tomas Anastacio, 55, who has three U.S.-born, college-educated children and has lived in Los Angeles for three decades, texted his son Carlos at around 10 a.m.

“Ca,” he wrote, “Immigration is at work.”

Carlos responded, “Oh no, I love you very much.”

When Carlos arrived at the downtown warehouse a few minutes later, Mr. Anastacio was already gone. Carlos stood in disbelief as his father’s co-workers were hauled away and their loved ones screamed, cried and bid them goodbye.

By the end of the day, about 40 people had been taken into custody, and hundreds of protesters were clashing with the police in downtown Los Angeles. It was the opening salvo in days of turmoil that have upended parts of the nation’s second-largest city and touched off protests across the country. The day after the raid, as scattered protests grew, President Trump ordered thousands of National Guard and Marine Corps troops to Los Angeles in an extraordinary, and to many excessive, show of force.

[A_Former_Democrat]

So now it takes six numbskulls full of mush to write for The Slimes ?

[Fido969]

It was June 6, and the morning shift at L’Haberdasherie, while the French citizens hustled to serve the German military personnel. But at nearby Normandy beach, the early morning silence was shattered.

[WashingtonSource]

4 women and 2 fags, one of color.

[plain talk]

The ‘new’ fight over immigration IMO should be targeted more on the people who hire and help the illegals avoid capture. Expose and prosecute these people.

[Hattie]

So I guess those folks missed President Trump’s offer of $1000 to self deport or wait and get zero as you are picked up and deported. Too bad.

[Ronaldus Magnus III]

Any news about huuuuge caravans of people from South America, Central America, and Mexico streaming towards America?

No? Hmmmmmmmmmmm.....

I remember videos of busses and busses full of people in Mexico. They would get out and walk a few blocks (photo ops for the NGOs facilitating the invasion) and then reboard the busses. These NGOs had their own, special t-shirts, and would hand out water during the few blocks of walking.

Illegal invaders have always been “on our minds.” When the Hussein/Biden Regime amped up to those insane numbers of invaders, many more “took notice.”

Just ask Aurora, Colorado.

[Eli Kopter]

More NYT crappola. Thanks.

[Regulator]

“who has three U.S.-born, college-educated children”

IOW he made sure to have his children here so we would bear the costs of babysitting/educating them, we would be instructed by our government to treat them as “our fellow citizens” when they are nothing of the sort, and also knowing that his children would get preferences over ours in education and employment simply because they are from a country south of the alleged border.

And all in the name of “equality”.

Anyone know of another country that allows foreign nationals to break into the country and then demand we regard them as “one of us”?!

[central_va]

Should focus on all of it.

[Singermom]

Let’s just adopt MEXICO’S immigration policy?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

You are very welcome.

[SuperLuminal]

"How L.A. Raids Ignited a New Fight Over Immigration"

More precisely:
"How L.A. Raids Brought Our Treasonous Enemies Out Of The Closet So They Can Be Identified"

[Zathras]

Six morons who probably can’t even find LA on the map?
“So is LA in Upstate NY?”

[newzjunkey]

Thirty years apparently unlawfully in the US while also working unlawfully and Trump is to blame for the law finally being enforced? B*llshit

[Svartalfiar]

One of the workers, Tomas Anastacio, 55, who has three U.S.-born, anchor baby, college-educated taxpayer-funded, children and has lived in Los Angeles for three decades, knowing he was illegal for all of those 30+ years....