A group of masked Border Patrol agents leapt out of an unmarked commercial truck and arrested 16 people on Wednesday outside a Home Depot store in the Westlake section of Los Angeles, in an operation critics say violates a series of recent court rulings against the Trump administration.
“For those who thought immigration enforcement had stopped in Southern California, think again,” Acting U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli, whose district includes Los Angeles, wrote in a statement on X. “The enforcement of federal law is not negotiable, and there are no sanctuaries from the reach of the federal government.”
