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Lois Beckett and Maanvi Singh in Los Angeles

‘We’re seeing the best of LA’: as Ice raids haunt the city, Angelenos show up for each other

mural on brick wall, with tree in front on sidewalk
Highland Park's new No Ice mural, painted by Tristan Eaton, Sonny Boy and Shane Jessup, is the latest version of an often-updated community art project. Photograph: Lois Beckett/The Guardian

In the days after ramped-up immigration raids began in Los Angeles, 50-year-old Lorena, who has been running a tamale cart in Koreatown for decades, stayed home. So did her husband, who works as a day laborer.

Worried about paying their bills, both of them after a few days went back out to work.

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