Overview

• Seven council members urged City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto to file for an injunction barring ICE from conducting stops and arrests deemed unconstitutional
• Huntington Park Mayor Arturo Flores labeled recent enforcement actions “abductions” by masked agents in unmarked vehicles and demanded local verification of federal credentials
• Activists organized emergency vigils and rallies across Los Angeles County to protest what they describe as cruel and terrorizing immigration sweeps
• Pasadena and other municipalities canceled summer events and park programs out of fear that residents could be targeted by surprise raids
• The proposed lawsuit aims to secure relief similar to a federal injunction issued by Judge Jennifer Thurston that halted warrantless Border Patrol stops in the Central Valley