UNITED STATES
Ice defies justice in a migrant hunt in Los Angeles
Despite the ban by a federal court, the American immigration police led a spectacular operation on Wednesday.
At the scene of the anti-immigration police raid in Los Angeles on August 6, 2025.
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US immigration police led a raid on Wednesday in front of a Los Angeles store, despite the recent prohibition by the justice of these punch operations that human rights defenders assimilate violent facies controls.
Since his return to power in January, President Donald Trump has carried out a spectacular policy against immigration which he says underground or even criminal, the specialized police, called ICE, being widely deployed to arrest people generally from Latin America.
Wednesday, agents arose from the back of a moving truck before throwing themselves on a group of people, a descent filmed by journalists on board Fox News, one of the favorite channels of Donald Trump supporters.
In recent months, these images have flooded televisions and social networks. They delight supporters of an implacable line against immigration as much as they horrify human rights defenders.
“Trojan horse operation”
Gregory Bovino, the chief of the border police in California, shared the video on Wednesday with the title “Operation Horse de Troy”.
“There is no sanctuary that escapes the federal government,” said the interim prosecutor general Bill Essayli, in a context of showdown between the Trump administration and these left -wing cities, like Los Angeles, says sanctuaries because they limit their cooperation in the fight against immigration.
This raid occurred after a federal court ordered in July the stopping of this type of operations. A call from the Trump government was rejected last week, the NGOs that argue that these operations mainly lead to the arrest of people according to their ethnic origin.
This court decision prohibits “to challenge and have people on the basis of amalgams linked to their appearance, their way of speaking or the place where they are,” said Mohammad Tajsar, Aclu lawyer, influential civil rights organization on Wednesday.
16 people in detention
According to Fox News, a total of 16 people were placed in detention.
At the end of July, the NGO Human Rights Watch denounced the “degrading and dehumanizing” conditions in several detention centers for migrants.
The sometimes violent raids of the ICE had sparked important demonstrations in Los Angeles in early June. The richest and most populous state in the country, California is home to millions of immigrants.
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