{"id":539372,"date":"2026-01-24T11:51:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T11:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/539372\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T11:51:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T11:51:24","slug":"hundreds-march-in-l-a-calling-for-ice-to-be-abolished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/539372\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds march in L.A. calling for ICE to be abolished"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In downtown Los Angeles on Friday, hundreds gathered as part of a nationwide protest of ongoing immigration raids that have rattled cities and communities across the country.<\/p>\n

Labor organizers, clergy leaders and immigrant rights groups gathered at La Placita Olvera to march down to the federal detention facility where Immigration and Customs Enforcement holds detainees. They came together less than a month after a Minneapolis woman, Renee Good, was fatally shot by an ICE agent, and protests have roiled the city as raids have continued.<\/p>\n

L.A. City Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez made an appearance and reiterated the common refrain to \u201cabolish ICE.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLook at all the people around you. This is what\u2019s going to save us from authoritarianism,\u201d she said, addressing the hundreds that had gathered in La Placita, a historical site of Latino organizing. \u201cI\u2019m a council member, but the government will not save you. It\u2019s the people that are standing arm in arm with you that are going to save our families, keep our families whole and repair the harm that the federal government is doing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Hundreds <\/p>\n

Hundreds of people from the greater Los Angeles area protest at La Placita Olvera on Friday in Los Angeles in solidarity with the people of Minnesota and the family of Renee Nicole Good, who was killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent.<\/p>\n

(Genaro Molina \/ Los Angeles Times)<\/p>\n

The protest was one of several across the country as immigration raids have continued. This time, Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and CLUE, a clergy organization, came together to organize a march to the detention center.<\/p>\n

Organizers recognized the death of Good, a 37-year-old mother of three who was shot multiple times by an ICE agent in Minneapolis on Jan. 7. She had dropped off her son at school when she came upon ICE agents during a raid. <\/p>\n

Federal officials have defended ICE agent Jonathan Ross\u2019 actions as self-defense and have accused Good of weaponizing her vehicle in \u201can act of domestic terrorism.\u201d <\/p>\n

Local and state officials, citing video evidence, have rejected that claim, and calls to rein in ICE have escalated as her death has resonated across the country. <\/p>\n

Among the speakers was a fast-food worker at McDonald\u2019s, who said she feared going to work every day last summer when ICE raids were intensifying in Los Angeles. Another fast-food worker spoke of organizing in response to the fear, and said that Minnesota\u2019s fight was also L.A\u2019.s fight.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom the West Coast to the Midwest, we are united with one voice to say: ICE out,\u201d Julieta Garcia said to big cheers. <\/p>\n

Cesar Sandoval Cruz, a sophomore at Wilson High School, said young people today are \u201cwitnessing history before our very own eyes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are seeing as our neighbors, families, strangers and everyday hardworking people are getting kidnapped off our streets,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are here to say that enough is enough. We are not going to stand by and watch as this is taking place in our city.\u201d<\/p>\n

State Sen. Sasha Renee Perez, a Democrat who represents Altadena, spoke about her efforts to pass legislation that would force ICE agents to be unmasked and identify themselves. The Trump administration is challenging it in court. <\/p>\n

Passing legislation in this moment, she said, was not enough. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe are going to need one another as we fight this fascist administration,\u201d Perez said. \u201cDirect action works. Do not let anybody tell you otherwise \u2014 the people of Minnesota are proving it right now.\u201d <\/p>\n

Beata Landes, 23, held a sign she wrote herself: \u201cKeep your hands off my family.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo many of my friends and family members are undocumented,\u201d she said, \u201cand the fear is palpable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Landes said she drove from the Westside because it was important to share solidarity with those opposed to ICE actions.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing around like-minded people is hopeful and inspiring,\u201d she added. <\/p>\n

Despite the obvious dangers of trailing and recording ICE agents, residents have continued to show up in large crowds in Minneapolis. Videos online show residents blasting whistles as they warn neighbors that ICE agents are in the area. In Los Angeles, rapid response network groups have also continued their efforts to track agents\u2019 movements across the city.<\/p>\n

The interactions have at times turned violent. On Wednesday, a federal agent shot at a suspect during a raid in South L.A. The Department of Homeland Security said the agent opened fire after the suspect rammed federal law enforcement with his vehicle.<\/p>\n

\"Approximately <\/p>\n

Approximately 200 people attend a rally holding signs protesting the actions of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at La Placita Olvera on Friday in Los Angeles. <\/p>\n

(Genaro Molina \/ Los Angeles Times)<\/p>\n

As the air filled with the scent of incense and music, L.A. resident Leneta Antoine-Wood held a sign that read \u201cICE out of Tovaangar,\u201d a reference to the Indigenous people of the Los Angeles Basin. Antoine-Wood, who is part Native, said she felt it was important to advocate against the raids. She said she knows someone who is being held in the Adelanto facility outside of L.A., and conditions there are worse than a prison.<\/p>\n

\u201cImmigrants have more rights to be here,\u201d she said. Her shirt reading \u201cNo one is illegal on stolen land\u201d echoed that sentiment.<\/p>\n

Antoine-Wood and her husband, Rob Wood, have been part of several protests against ICE and government overreach. They participated in the Standing Rock demonstration against an oil pipeline through tribal land in North Dakota.<\/p>\n

Despite acknowledging that little may change while Trump is in office, Wood said it was important to be out there to show the strength of opposition to the administration\u2019s actions.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis administration doesn\u2019t follow any of the laws,\u201d he said, and Trump himself has \u201cno good interest in this country.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEverybody\u2019s just gotta make sure that they vote,\u201d he said. \u201cYou gotta protest.\u201d<\/p>\n

As the crowd prepared to march Friday to the detention facility a few blocks away, they held a moment of silence for those who have died or gone missing while in ICE custody. People held photos of those who have died \u2014 including Johnny Noviello, a 49-year-old Canadian who died in a Miami detention facility, and Brayan Rayo-Garzon, a 27-year-old Colombian who died in Missouri.<\/p>\n

The mood lifted as the crowd began to march south. They called for \u201cICE out of L.A.\u201d and for several moments stopped traffic as they spilled into the street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In downtown Los Angeles on Friday, hundreds gathered as part of a nationwide protest of ongoing immigration raids…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":539373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,2451,9958,4446,246,238200,5410,14443,2961,118859,224,2444,5337,17635,5996,3546,8149,83050,6620],"class_list":["post-539372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-city","tag-country","tag-death","tag-family","tag-federal-detention-facility","tag-ice","tag-ice-agent","tag-la","tag-large-crowd","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-losangeles","tag-minneapolis","tag-part","tag-people","tag-raid","tag-south-l-a","tag-time"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115949934545878619","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539372","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=539372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}