Posted on 06/14/2025 12:36:35 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Giovanni Garcia pulled up to a dusty intersection in South Gate and scoped the scene. It was quiet, just folks walking home from work, but Garcia was among several people drawn there in hopes of bearing witness to one of the federal raids that have unfolded across Los Angeles County in recent days.
Just minutes before, several Instagram accounts had posted alerts warning that white pickup trucks with green U.S. Customs and Border Protection markings had been seen near the intersection.
With friends loaded into his white Grand Cherokee and a large Mexican flag flying out of the sunroof, this was the sixth day in a row that Garcia, 28, had spent up to 10 hours following such alerts through South L.A.’s immigrant-heavy neighborhoods.
Fueled by sodas and snacks he picked up at a Northgate Market, Garcia’s goal, he said, was to catch Immigration and Customs Enforcement or other immigration agents in the act of detaining people on the street.
So far, it had been a fruitless chase.
“I’ve been doing this for six days. It sucks because I get these alerts and go, but I never make it in time,” said Garcia, a Mexican American U.S. citizen who lives in South Central.
Monitoring ICE activity has become a grim pastime for some Angelenos. Apps dedicated to the purpose have popped up, which combine with Citizen, Nextdoor, X and other platforms to create a firehose of unverified, user-generated information about federal movements and operations.
Trying to keep up in real time can prove equally exhausting and frustrating. The reports sometimes turn out to be false, and immigration enforcers seem to strike and depart with swift precision, leaving the public little opportunity to respond.
It’s impossible to determine how many people are engaged in this Sisyphean chase...
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I sincerely hope that ICE is “Thomas Crown Affair”ing these idiots. I hope they have the trucks just driving around the “illegal hotspots” causing the “activists” to freak out and post online about it. (Causing these wannabe “journalists” to scurry all across the city to try to find the ball under the cup).
I think I found a new hobby.
Self Deportation is the best plan.
“””I think I found a new hobby.”””
We could make it a contest. Let’s see who can get more people to follow him to a fake ICE raid.
And if the LA Times can track the raids and get protesters to the areas to block the ICE agents, rest assured they will spare no cost in doing so.
Where is one of our federal judges that issues an ORDER for Trump to start bringing in the many people that have been waiting to enter our country LEGALLY?
” A Mexican American US citizen “
Funny how they always have to make it all sound sooooo authoritative
The guy’s parents were probably illegals and he’s a “citizen” by virtue of a misinterpretation of the 14th amendment
And South LA was all White just 65 years ago and had been for a century prior
Happily, we have film to show us the truth about “immigrant heavy neighborhoods” which got that way through intimidation and ethnic cleansing by Mexican gangs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqDRejhFcOE
“””I think I found a new hobby.”””
“We could make it a contest. Let’s see who can get more people to follow him to a fake ICE raid.”
It’s already a contest between ICE enforcing the law and libs trying to stop them. Which is illegal so we get to scoop up a dickhead or two along the way. Also the opposition is doxing ICE folks which is VERY illegal and risks lives. We’ve arrested a few for that I think.
The protest are another interesting thing to follow. They have to communicate tactics to each other but they can’t really do that secretly or even be sure it’s not one of us throwing them off.
Their chances aren’t all that good. They have a humongous learning curve.
Cut them off. Detain them. Disable their vehicle. Accidentally of course...
Ice should leave for a few days. They will leave if police/ice all leave. Let them burn and pillage. They will soon leave. Then go back in force and pull out the illegals. It will take them a while to gather together again.
Are you suggesting that people get on Instagram and report there is a raid at locations near judges' houses?
Huh? Are you on the right thread here?
What's their immigration status?
ICE could easily lead agitators into a trap with this thing. Get them into a place where there is no other exit. The old box canyon trick.
I agree.
umm 10 hrs a day for the last 6 days, must not have a job
been longer then that that south central was white, the watts riots were 60 yrs ago this august
He is being paid by some NGO or a Mexican drug cartel. Better than cleaning tables or digging ditches.
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