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The LA ICE Nightmare
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It’s easy to see stories and headlines and lose sight of just what’s happening.
So here’s some detail from the ACLU complaint that shows just how bad the LA ICE raids are:
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The LA ICE Nightmare
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It’s easy to see stories and headlines and lose sight of just what’s happening.
So here’s some detail from the ACLU complaint that shows just how bad the LA ICE raids are:
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“One of the clearest patterns that have emerged in the raids in Southern California over the past few weeks has been stops and interrogations based on nothing but broad profiles, including on the basis of apparent race and ethnicity”
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““The manner in which the foregoing raids have been conducted bears no hallmarks of reasonable suspicion: there are no indicia that agents had any specific articulable facts sufficient to justify a seizure.”
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“Instead, those who appear to be non-white have been categorically stopped, sometimes without even being asked for identification.”
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At a military-style raid at the Santa Fe Springs swap meet on June 14, 2025, 60 heavily armed agents were present. One witness reported that “if you looked Hispanic in any way, they just took you.”
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“These “practices have led to numerous U.S. citizens who work, reside, or just happen to be in neighborhoods with large numbers of people of color also getting swept up”
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“In a typical encounter, agents and officers approach suddenly and in large numbers. Typically dressed in military style or SWAT clothing, heavily armed with weapons displayed, and masked,
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their vests may display only a generic “POLICE” patch (if they display anything at all). For example, an estimated 60 ICE agents dressed in military tactical gear and carrying rifles raided a swap meet in Los Angeles on June 15, 2025.”
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“[A]gents typically position themselves around individuals, aggressively engage them, and/or bark commands, making it nearly impossible for individuals to decline to answer their questions.”
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“When individuals have tried to avoid an encounter with agents and officers, they have been chased and pushed to the ground, sometimes even beaten, and then taken away. Such seizures look less like lawful arrests and more like brazen, midday kidnappings.”
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“In one widely circulated social media video, a driver refused to answer questions and tried to drive away. The undercover agent pointed his firearm at the driver and said “I’ll [expletive] shoot you,” before being instructed by another agent to let him go.”
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“Agents and officers have not only employed these tactics with alarming regularity, but they have also refused to identify themselves or what agency they are with when asked. Such refusal to identify themselves endangers public safety”
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“During the ongoing raids… Defendants have been taking individuals who are swept up en masse to the basement of the federal building at 300 North Los Angeles Street in Los Angeles, commonly referred to as “B-18.”
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“B-18 is a facility for immigrant detainees designed to hold a limited number of individuals temporarily so they can be processed and released, or processed and transported to a long-term detention facility. It does not have beds, showers, or medical facilities.”
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“Individuals taken to B-18 are being kept in overcrowded, inhumane conditions. They are held in small windowless rooms w dozens or more other detainees, in extremely cramped quarters. Some rooms are so cramped that detainees cannot sit [or] lie down, for hours at a time”
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“As of June 20, 2025, upon information and belief, over 300 individuals were being held at B-18. They are expected to sleep in cold rooms on floors without cots, bedding, or blankets.”
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“Some are even forced to sleep in tents outside. When asked why detainees have been forced to sleep in such cramped conditions, an officer at B-18 explained that B-18 is meant to be a processing center, not a detention facility.”
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“Detainees are also routinely deprived of food. Some have not even been given water other than what comes out of the combined sink and toilet in the group detention room. And upon asking for food, detainees have been told repeatedly that the facility has run out.”
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“Detainees are routinely denied access to necessary medical care and medications, too…The facility cannot even provide detainees with basic hygiene. Individuals who are menstruating have had to wait long periods before receiving menstrual pads, if they receive them at all.”
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“To keep the true nature and scope of Defendants’ constitutional violations…hidden from the outside world—individuals detained at B-18 have had their access to prospective or retained counsel severely and unconstitutionally restricted.”
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““[T]he inhumane conditions at B-18 create a coercive environment that pressures some of those detained individuals to take voluntary departure without…consulting w counsel & despite potential deportation relief because they fear lengthy detention in deplorable conditions.”
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For even more details, go here: open.substack.com/pub/davidpeppe…
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