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Families of Los Angeles workers detained by ICE want justice<\/p>\n
Families of the people detained in ICE raids in Los Angeles are calling for for justice for their loved ones.<\/p>\n
Southern Californians traveling through Los Angeles may see a march and rally along Wilshire Boulevard on Thursday, Dec. 18.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s part of International Migrants Day, and it\u2019s likely the most important one<\/a> in the past five years, said Oscar Zarate, director of external affairs for the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights \u2014 CHIRLA is among the organizations involved in Thursday\u2019s rally.<\/p>\n Participants will meet at the intersection of Vermont Avenue and Wilshire Boulevard in Koreatown, Los Angeles, and the march will proceed through MacArthur Park to a nearby Home Depot. The march and rally’s location is purposeful: \u201ctraversing the streets of Los Angeles in communities heavily impacted by recent ICE raids,\u201d according to organizers.<\/p>\n The importance behind this move is, in part, to communicate to community members not to be \u201cscared,\u201d countering what Zarate said is part of the Trump administration\u2019s goal: Using fear to make people opt to self-deport.<\/p>\n \u201cChoosing those locations is a way of us saying, \u2018No, that these spaces are ours. We\u2019re reclaiming them,\u2019\u201d Zarate said. \u201cAnd that people should not be in fear or be so in fear that they\u2019re not leaving their homes.\u201d<\/p>\n It comes amid months of, at times, highly public, federal enforcement against people lacking legal status in the United States \u2014 Los Angelenos and Southern California communities included. Protests against federal raids in Los Angeles in June triggered a notable response: Trump deployed<\/a> California National Guard and U.S. Marines troops to the city, a move condemned by Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and other officials.<\/p>\n The march and rally serve as a \u201cloud reminder\u201d that \u201cthere is no Los Angeles without immigrants,\u201d said Sebastian Silva, deputy communications director of SEIU United Service Workers West.<\/p>\n Silva said immigrants make up the \u201cfabric\u201d of Los Angeles, from its founding to the present day, and \u201cmake the economy run.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s an opportunity for us to say, \u2018Not only are we here. Not only do we demand safety and security and to live free from fear and free from raids, but we deserve rights, and we deserve recognition for all the hard work that we put into creating the LA that we know, that we love, and the LA that continues to be welcoming to immigrants,\u201d Silva said.<\/p>\n What is the International Migrants Day 2025 theme?<\/p>\n This year\u2019s theme for International Migrants Day is \u201cMy Great Story: Cultures and Development.\u201d The theme, according to the United Nations<\/a>, \u201chighlights how human mobility drives growth, enriches societies, and helps communities connect, adapt, and support one another.\u201d<\/p>\n