Trump pauses immigration raids at farms, hotels
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On Monday, there was a quiet hum of traffic passing on Colorado Boulevard outside the AC Hotel. A hotel employee, who declined to give his name, said it was quiet overnight with no additional protests outside the building. A lone flier that read “ICE out of LA” was placed on a third-floor balcony.
The undocumented migrant community in the United States is using social networks and other digital platforms to send alerts about raids and the presence of immigration agents around the US.
President Trump's approach to deportations is giving Democrats a unifying message in opposition to him. But the Democratic Party still lacks a common vision for what it would do differently.
Advocacy groups, a farmworker union and Ventura police said federal immigration agents were seen everywhere from Moorpark to Ventura.
Los Angeles is home to the country’s largest population of undocumented immigrants. So when President Trump’s immigration raids arrived, many expected trouble.
Members of other agencies are getting detailed to assist ICE, while Justice Department personnel shift to immigration-focused teams and prioritize immigration-related cases.
They are trying to strike a careful balance on issues where Republicans have held a political advantage in recent years.
President Trump launched a website for his $5 million "Trump card," offering a legal pathway to U.S. citizenship.
Representative Salud Carbajal blasted the operations of the past week, calling them "completely unjustified” and “deeply harmful.”
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