US immigration authorities have extended the activity Los Angeles Surface area on Saturday following demonstrations in a federal detention center and a police response which included tear gas, flash-bangs and the arrest of a union leader.
The staff of the border patrol in the anti-riot and gas equipment was held outside an industrial park in the city of Paramount, deployment of tear gas while passers-by and demonstrators gathered on the medianas and on the other side of the street, some by making fun of the authorities while recording events on smartphones.
“Ice out of paramount. We see you for what you are,” said a woman through a megaphone. “You are not welcome here.”
A portable panel said: “No human being is illegal.”
A demonstrator throws a rock in the middle of the tear gas of the police during a demonstration after the federal immigration authorities carried out operations on Saturday 7 June 2025, in the primordial section of Los Angeles.
AP photo / Eric Thayer
The boulevard was closed to traffic while the American border patrol was circulating in the area. ICE representatives did not immediately respond to requests for information by e-mail on weekend application activities.
The arrests by the immigration authorities in Los Angeles are involved as US President Donald Trump and his administrative effort to keep promises to make mass deportations across the country.
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Friday, immigration and customs agents arrested more than 40 people while they were performing peak mandates in several places, especially outside a clothing warehouse where a tense scene was taking place while a crowd tried to prevent agents from hunting.
The mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, said that the activity was intended to “sow terror” in the second largest city in the country.
In a press release on Saturday, the acting director of ICE, Todd Lyons, reprimanded the bass for the city’s response to demonstrations.
“Mayor Bass took the side of chaos and anarchy on the police,” Lyons said in a statement. “Make no mistake, the ice will continue to enforce the immigration laws of our country and to stop illegal criminal foreigners.”
The demonstrators gathered Friday evening in front of a federal detention center in Los Angeles where the lawyers said that the arrested people had been taken, singing “release them, let them stay!”
Other demonstrators held signs that said “Ice out of the!” And led songs and shouted megaphones. Some graffiti scribbled on the facade of the building.
Federal agents have executed searches of searches in three places, including a warehouse in the Los Angeles fashion district, after a judge discovered that there was a probable cause that the employer used fictitious documents for some of his workers, according to representatives for internal security surveys and the office of the American prosecutor.
Immigrant rights defenders say that people were arrested on Friday by immigration authorities outside Home Depot stores and a donut store.
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