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404 [by L.A. Times]
Independent2025-06-07
Chaos erupts as protesters confront immigration agents at Paramount Home Depot. An hours-long standoff between protesters and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents erupted Saturday morning at a Home Depot in Paramount, as federal officials warned of further immigration raids to come in Los Angeles. #immigration
404 [by L.A. Times]
Independent2025-06-20
Border Patrol agents arrest U.S. citizen at Home Depot
A 37-year-old U.S. citizen who was tackled to the ground and arrested after filming federal agents at Home Depot on Thursday said he was held for more than an hour near Dodger Stadium, where agents boasted about how many immigrants they arrested.
“How many bodies did you guys grab today?” he said one agent asked.
“Oh, we grabbed 31,“ the other replied.
“That was a good day today,” the first agent responded.
The two high-fived, as Garcia sat on the asphalt under the sun, he said.
Job Garcia was released on Friday from a downtown federal detention center. No apparent criminal charges have yet to be filed. He is one of several U.S citizens arrested during enforcement operations in recent days. Department of Homeland Security officials say some have illegally interfered with agents’ jobs.
In response to questions about why Garcia was arrested and if he’d been charged, a spokesperson for the U.S. attorney’s office in L.A. recommended a reporter contact the Department of Homeland Security.
DHS and U.S. Customs and Border Patrol did not respond to a request for comment
“They call them ‘bodies,’ they reduce them to bodies,” he said. “My blood was boiling.”
Garcia, a photographer and doctoral student Claremont Graduate University had been picking up a delivery at Home Depot, when someone approached the customer desk and said something was unfolding outside.
“La migra, La migra,” he heard as he walked out. He quickly grabbed his phone and followed agents around the parking lot, telling them they were “f— useless” until he came to a group of them forming a half-circle around a box truck.
A Border Patrol agent radioed someone and then slammed his baton against the passenger window, his video shows. Glass shattered. He unlocked the door as people shouted.
In the video, a stunned man can be seen texting behind the wheel. He had apparently refused to open his door.
It’s unclear from the footage what happened next, but Garcia said an agent lunged toward him and pushed him.
“My first reaction was to like push his hand off,” he recalled. Then, he said, the agent grabbed his left arm, twisted it behind his back and threw his phone.
The agent brought him to the ground and three other agents jumped in, Garcia said
“Get the f— down sir” and “give me your f— hand. You want it, you got it, sir, you f— got it. You want to go to jail, fine. You got it,” an agent can be heard saying in the video.
“You wanted it, you got it,” the man yelled.
An agent handcuffed him so hard “that there was no circulation running to my fingers,” Garcia said.
Pinned down, Garcia had difficulty breathing.
“That moment, I thought I could probably die here,” he said.
The agent put Garcia’s phone back in his pocket. The recording kept running.
As Garcia was put into a vehicle, his video captured an agent twice saying: “I’ve got one back here.”
“You got one what?” Garcia shot back. “You got one what?”
He said an agent told him in broken Spanish to “wait here,’ though it could not be heard on the video.
“I f— speak English, you f— dumbass,” he clearly shouts back.
No agent asked if he was an American citizen, he said. Nobody asked for identification.
“They assumed that I was undocumented,” he said later in an interview. #immigration
404 [by L.A. Times]
Independent2025-06-08
Trump: There were “violent people” in Los Angeles “and they’re not gonna get away with it.”
President Trump comments on protests happening Los Angeles over immigration raids. #trump
404 [by L.A. Times]
Independent2025-06-10
Why fly the Mexican flag at rallies in the United States? With the recent rallies and protests in Los Angeles over immigration raids, you've probably seen a number of flags representing Mexico and other Latin countries being waved. Los Angeles Times columnist Gustavo Arellano talks about why you tend to see these flags at immigration rallies.
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