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Maanvi Singh with photographs by Aleksey Kondratyev

A year after ICE raids terrorized Los Angeles, a rattled city counts its scars: ‘The arrests never really stopped’

A parking lot outside a big box store in early morning light, with one man's shadow long behind him as he walks past cars.
The parking lot of Home Depot in the MacArthur Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, on 10 June. Photograph: Aleksey Kondratyev/The Guardian

Most people in Brian Gavidia’s life haven’t seemed to notice that a year has passed since armed federal immigration agents descended on their city.

In East Los Angeles, in the neighborhood where he was born and has lived his whole life, the scene this week appeared more or less normal. A family in formalwear settled into the big round table at the torta ahogada restaurant for a post-graduation celebration. The vendors selling fruit or flowers or perfumes were once again lining the streets.

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