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Immigration Frontlines

Los Angeles Police Department officers force a large crowd of protesters back June 8, 2025, as the groups clash near the VA Outpatient Clinic in downtown Los Angeles, Calif.

Perla Rios, a family member of a detained factory worker, cries and pleads to the media during a press conference June 9, 2025, outside Ambiance Apparel in Los Angeles, Calif. Federal immigration officers executed a raid at Ambiance Apparel on June 6, arresting more than 40 immigrant workers and igniting the protests against ICE operations in Los Angeles.

Federal officers try to leave Chinatown after performing an immigration raid late in the evening June 6, 2025, in Los Angeles Calif. but protesters block their exit. There has been swift and significant backlash to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement sweeps in Los Angeles.

Senator Alex Padilla, Democrat of California, is forcefully removed June 12, 2025, from a press conference held by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem at the Wilshire Federal Building in Los Angeles, Calif. Padilla was forced out of the room, pushed to the floor, handcuffed and later released by federal agents after interjecting Noem’s remarks with questions of his own.

Los Angeles Police Department officers fire ‘less lethal’ rounds into a crowd after getting objects thrown at them June 9, 2025, in downtown Los Angeles, Calif.

California National Guard troops stand in front of the Robert Young Federal Building June 9, 2025, as a large crowd of protesters fills north Los Angeles Street in downtown Los Angeles, Calif. This comes after President Donald Trump federalized the California National Guard on June 7 in a controversial and legally contested act of executive power.

Abel Reyna shows his wounds June 9, 2025, after being fired upon more than seven times with a variety of ‘less lethal’ ammunition by law enforcement officers while he tried to leave a metro station on his way to an AA meeting in downtown Los Angeles, Calif. Volunteer medics tend to Reyna as he waits for an ambulance to transport him to the hospital.

Family members of detained factory workers, many of which are from Indigenous communities in the central Mexican state of Zacatecas, hold signs which show their arrested loved ones June 9, 2025, outside Ambiance Apparel in Los Angeles, Calif.

A protester yells at a Los Angeles Police Department officer June 9, 2025, as the police work to disperse a crowd in downtown Los Angeles, Calif.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has lunch with California National Guard troops June 12, 2025, at the Wilshire Federal Building in Los Angeles, Calif. after finishing a press conference. Senator Alex Padilla, Democrat of California, was forcefully removed from the press conference and briefly handcuffed. Noem and Padilla met briefly after the conference.

A person walks over a blood-stained sidewalk June 8, 2025, during a large protest outside of the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles, Calif. The Metropolitan Detention center has been at the heart of the protests in downtown Los Angeles because it is where detained immigrants have been held. It is now guarded by Marines.