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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Ricky Rodas in Los Angeles

ICE raids forever changed the work of these gun violence prevention workers: ‘The panic is still there’

A young woman stands outside a hospital.
Youth Alive CIC program manager Guadalupe Serrano at the Highland hospital in Oakland, California. Photograph: Khariza Rae Photography/Courtesy of Youth Alive

Last June, hundreds of federal agents descended on Los Angeles in the first major immigration enforcement operation of the second Trump administration. Immigrants were swept up at Home Depots and car washes, in front of food stands and at garment factories.

In some Latino and immigrant communities, residents were afraid to go to work; kids stayed home from school and petrified families had friends and neighbors make their grocery runs, too scared to go outside themselves.

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