{"id":243421,"date":"2025-09-21T07:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T07:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/243421\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T07:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T07:58:08","slug":"new-initiative-launches-in-la-to-monitor-and-film-immigration-enforcement-operations-pasadena-star-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/243421\/","title":{"rendered":"New initiative launches in LA to monitor and film immigration enforcement operations \u2013 Pasadena Star News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014 Hundreds of people gathered at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynews.com\/2025\/07\/07\/national-guard-troops-protect-immigration-officers-in-large-scale-la-operation-2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MacArthur Park<\/a> on Saturday for the launch of a community initiative to monitor federal enforcement of suspected illegal immigration.<\/p>\n<p>The Save America Movement is described as \u201ca rapid-response and civic empowerment initiative to ensure the American people have a clear understanding of the actions and impact of Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in our communities while providing support to impacted communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Organizers plan to have trained camera crews and volunteers help capture ICE operations as they\u2019re happening. The group unveiled three specially outfitted vans Saturday, dubbed Liberty Van One, Two, and Three, which will be staffed by trained volunteers, including lawyers, clergy, veterans and videographers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLos Angeles will always stand with families under threat,\u201d Mayor Karen Bass said. \u201cAngelenos are showing the country that when our communities are targeted, we respond with solidarity, with resources, and with an unbreakable commitment to justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump, while campaigning, promised safety and security. He promised that changes to immigration policy would target criminals. His campaign, he said, was intended to rid the country of people he has called murderers, terrorists, drug dealers, animals -\u2013 \u201cthe worst they have in every country, all over the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/komonews.com\/news\/nation-world\/white-house-border-czar-shares-insight-on-immigration-policy-tom-homan-president-donald-trump-ice-agents-detained-tennessee-florida-new-york-migrants-arrested-southern-border\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">White House Border Czar Tom Homan<\/a> has said undocumented immigrants in the country illegally, even without criminal records, should be arrested. \u201cIt\u2019s not OK to be in this country illegally,\u201d he has said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are millions of people standing in line, taking their tests, doing their background investigations, paying their fees to become part of the greatest nation on earth. They\u2019re trying to do things the right way. They\u2019re sitting in the back seat while millions of people under Joe Biden cheated the system,\u201d Homan told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/video\/2025\/07\/12\/trump-border-czar-tom-homan-there-will-be-no-amnesty-the-conversation-1681186\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Politico<\/a> in July.<\/p>\n<p>Critics, however, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynews.com\/2025\/09\/18\/immigrants-living-in-fear\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">have called the government\u2019s mass deportation campaign inhumane.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the coming weeks, organizers will be recruiting and training volunteers to staff the Save America Movement vehicles, to be deployed in early October.<\/p>\n<p>More information can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesaveamericamovement.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">thesaveamericamovement.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles Daily News and The Associated Press contributed to this story.<\/p>\n<p>Originally Published: September 20, 2025 at 8:26 PM PDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES \u2014 Hundreds of people gathered at MacArthur Park on Saturday for the launch of a community&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":243422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,5295,409,2961,224,6080,5337,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-243421","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","11":"tag-immigration","12":"tag-la","13":"tag-los-angeles","14":"tag-los-angeles-county","15":"tag-losangeles","16":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115241228991096076","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}