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Community rallies against ICE raids after high school student detained<\/p>\n

Communities in California and Massachusetts protested recent ICE raids that resulted in arrests of restaurant workers and a high school student.<\/p>\n

Chaotic scenes from immigration arrests around the country continued emerging over the weekend as President Donald Trump’s crackdown<\/a> widened.<\/p>\n

The arrests claimed immigrant mothers, restaurant workers and wanted criminals.<\/p>\n

Immigration authorities raided a popular San Diego Italian restaurant before the Friday dinner rush, arresting several kitchen workers, while community members confronted agents, according to video shared by a local CBS station<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As heavily armed agents entered the restaurant, local residents screamed at them and filmed the scene. The agents wore tactical gear, including bulletproof vests emblazoned with the Homeland Security Investigations logo.<\/p>\n

“The agents fired sound grenades, flash-bang grenades, at the crowd,” Pedro Rios, director of the Quaker American Friends Service Committee\u2019s\u00a0U.S.-Mexico Border Program, told CBS.<\/p>\n

Todd Lyons, acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, told FOX News<\/a> that agents were doing their law enforcement duty during the raid.<\/p>\n

“We should be supported, not being called Nazis, not being villainized,” he said.<\/p>\n

Immigrants arrested at scheduled hearings<\/p>\n

Earlier last week, ICE agents were seen arresting immigrants directly after their scheduled immigration hearings<\/a> at a San Antonio, Texas, courthouse \u2013 doubling down on a tactic that has caused an outcry among immigrant advocates.<\/p>\n

“Families are being targeted at their most vulnerable time \u2013 attending their scheduled immigration hearings for what they believe to be progress in their cases,” according to a statement <\/a>by the Immigrant Legal Resource Center.<\/p>\n

The statement links to a video that appears to show ICE agents arresting a mother <\/a>alongside four children inside the courthouse, including a minor with his hands zip-tied behind his back<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Another video <\/a>outside the same courthouse, undated but posted Friday, May 30, by advocacy group Unidos Podemos, showed the emotional scene of two mothers and a child being loaded by plainclothes agents into the narrow chamber of a vehicle outfitted to carry prisoners.<\/p>\n

The child stands on the bumper, his arms outstretched. He says in Spanish, “It’s OK, Mom, I’m here. It’s OK.”<\/p>\n

ICE publicizes criminal arrests during crackdown<\/p>\n

ICE, which has a significant social media presence, has largely refrained from sharing emotional or chaotic arrest videos and instead posts mugshots of arrested immigrants <\/a>with serious criminal records.<\/p>\n

The agency publicized its recent arrests of a Honduran man facing burglary and sexual battery charges, a convicted sex offender from El Salvador and a Venezuelan woman convicted of felonies in California and wanted on other charges in New York.<\/p>\n