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Claire Wang in Los Angeles

‘To not speak out is to be complicit’: LA faith leaders mobilize amid Ice raids

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LA’s mayor, Karen Bass, speaks next to faith leaders as a curfew goes in effect in Los Angeles on 10 June. Photograph: Patrick T Fallon/AFP/Getty Images

Kevin Kang, a pastor at a United Methodist church about 15 miles north of downtown Los Angeles, was furious last Thursday when he heard that the taco stand nextdoor was raided by immigration agents.

Not only did US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) target his favorite vendors, he said, they had also used the church parking lot to prepare for a raid on a host of popular Mexican food trucks on Foothill Boulevard, a major street in the city of Tujunga.

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