001box struck at Home Depot during an immigration raid. They're calling operation Trojan horse. Now they're questioned over whether they violated a federal judge's order barring indiscriminate arrests based on race. Welcome to Fox 11 News 5. on our sister station Fox 11 Plus. I'm Christine Divine. >> I'm Alex Michaels. And Fox 7's Laura Diaz starts us off. She's live in the Westlake district. Laura. >> Well, a demonstration started just moments ago, not far from where the raid was held earlier this morning. We're going to pan off and show you some of that. What has politicians and advocates so UPSET WITH THE TACTICS used today? Federal agents were on a pencil TRUCK AND THEY PULLED UP as if they were looking for day labor and then agents ran out and labor ran. They came in a pinsky
002literally the back door opened and they got out. We were all scared. That's how one immigrant worker described the early morning tear at a Home Depot in the Westlake district of LA Wednesday morning where DHS agents arrived at a moving boxy truck. According to DHS, the targeted operation was called Virgin Force, ostensibly to arrest members of the notorious MS13 gang, but witnesses said they arrested were not felons, but simply men looking for a day's work. Images of federal agents in pursuit of undocumented immigrants spread on social media. The DHS had agents arrested 16 people who were in the US illegally. About four miles away in Boil Heights, the raid was on everybody's mind as they held a news conference that included government, business, and labor leaders. Leaders have been hoping raids would stop after a
003federal judge's order assuming that immigration cannot racially profile people to target immigrants. Mayor Karen Bass was there and weighed in on the video she saw the morning rage from the video and from the spills. It looks like the exact same thing that we were seeing before the TTRO. We have the the legal remedy. You know, I can't physically go out there and stop it. You know that the federal government is the highest level authority of our land. We know that. And so to me, the best that we can do is we can stand together as Angelinos. We can resist this. Acting US attorney Bill Sy posting a statement on X. In part, it read the enforcement of federal law is not negotiable and there are no sanctuaries from the reach of the federal government. Coming
004back to you live to the Westlake district. People are starting to arrive to participate in this demonstration. It's an anti-ICE demonstration. And if you look over on some of the trucks that I'm showing you that they have signs that say education or deportation and also saying get the job done. So we will find out later and I can tell you what happens here because right now people starting to arrive. The sound and the fury continues on the streets of LA. I'm Laura reporting live in the Woods district. I'm sure everybody remembers that video. I'm pretty sure those 16 people got released because of how they did that. Okay. Um, now whether being tracked or not, I can't I can't I don't know. I wouldn't be able to tell you. Um, the operation children horse is
005pretty much getting a bunch of agents from different states, different border patrol agents from different states, police officers from different states, putting them all together and going from city to city to do what they did over here in Los Angeles. Okay. Um, that's the operation named Trojan Horse. And like I said, they I can't remember where they're at, if they're still in Chicago or not. I think they moved out to Tennessee, but that's what they're doing. But like I said earlier, I can reiterate that these operations won't end here in Los Angeles. Um, but that will be on a smaller scale. Okay. You'll still probably be seeing the officers with the mask and all that. they wear a mask when during CO wear a mask but um there's reasons why they're wearing these masks. Um
006are they going to be able to I think yeah passing the law then it's going to restrict them from wearing these masks. I don't know if it's going to happen or not but until then these guys going to be wearing those masks. Um and this goes into to our next topic um um individual impersonating ICE agents. Okay, that's that was going on during the the the height of these operations and people getting arrested. But the problem with that is your normal person out there doesn't know how to how to identify an agent from a real agent from a fake one if that person is wearing a vest, a gun, a badge. The badges are really easy to get online. Um u even a mask or driving a vehicle that looks like a federal government vehicle.
007So people don't know how to tell the difference between a real one and a and a bad one. Okay? What I can tell you is the bad ones are always alone. Okay? They're always alone. The real ones, they always have a partner or they're they're driving in different digits, but they're together. Um but the bad are always alone. The fake ones. The fake ones. Let's put it there. The fake ones. And the fake ones are the ones that are people, I'll let you go for for whatever money you have in your pocket. What happens? People don't give them the money. If you know anybody who encounter one of these fake agents or officers, that's the number right there. 1 800 323 863. Call that number and and your local law enforcement. >> 911 will probably
008be the best one. first and then that number. No one in our community should live in fear of the seat of the seat intimidation and we stand firmly with all residents regardless immigration status and are committed to ensuring their safety, dignity and rights. Okay, that you know that statement like that pre in law enforcement. >> So, the next few slides we're going to show you, it's how to identify um some of the US agents. So, the the pictures listed in the slide, the picture at the very top is the typical ICE um uniform. It's you can see how it says police and directly under ICE. It's it's pretty cut and dry. And bottom shows US Customs and Border Protection. um slightly different. And so these images you're about to see are going to be the
009just typically associated with the federal agencies, the more common ones. First one is the ATF and the DEA and the US Marshall's Office. It's important to to know the difference between these so that way you can identify them. Although like my partner previous It's not very hard to to get these. You can probably find some fakes on eBay. And these are the more common state agency ones. They look pretty similar to each other. You have a parole agent, ABC, which is alcohol, beverage, and alcohol beverage control. And the more common one, which we all probably have experienced in our life, is the CHP one. And get to know your local agencies as well. Um, some of the common ones are the LA County Sheriff, LA PD, and familiar with your local law enforcement agency. Not
010sure if Buffalo has their own PD or not, but if they don't, in this regard, um, so it is a sheriff, so that's a I think we've all seen them. They wear the tanning greens. If you do find yourself in need of an attorney, this is one that's um comes recommended. And also gives information in Spanish as well. He is bilingual. Here's a video of of him speaking. for me. It's Foreigne. Okay. So, his contact information is going to pop up on the the screen right now if you want to take a picture of it and jot down that information, please feel free to do so. Number reference is ERIC code 213 5164. He is located at 1213 South Englewood Avenue in the city of Hawthorne, California. Zip code is 90250. I believe this is
011going to conclude the presentation. I'm sorry. >> Anybody have any questions for me for him? >> If you could go ahead and explain a little bit more about ICE agents coming on maybe to homes asking for wellness checks on students, maybe someone in the home. Um, and what are what does that look like? What should a parent do if that's what happens to them? Somebody brought that up earlier. During my time on a job, I've never heard of an ICE agent on officer going to somebody's house to do a welfare check on on a child. Okay. Uh, that's not something we don't we never did and something they don't do right now. then there's no purpose for just to do that. Um to one because how long ago was that? We can talk offline off
012of that but we can talk on that but um they're not they're not um >> yeah local law enforcement is one that really the welfare checks. It's not usually ICE that that will do that. >> Only only local law enforcement anyone can do that can't do that. There's no reason for a nice agent officer to knock on somebody's house and says, "Hey, can I see your son or daughter that just want to make sure they're okay?" There's no reason for that. That's not part of policy. That's not part of training. That's part of not what ICE does. Okay? If that would happen, if somebody would knock on your door and get hold of the door >> or you can call also call your local agency as well and see what's going on with that >>
013police. Just open the door. Any other questions >> now that they're not allowed to enter our schools, our premises for district, um just for guidance for parents to know what should be the first thing or who would they call directly to report them trying to enter one of our facilities? They they won't try to enter, but if they do, the best bet is to call the local police because they're going to respond quicker and quicker than anybody else. Okay? But they're instructed not to set foot on school grounds. Now, like I said earlier, they're following somebody. That person leaving to a school just gets out the vehicle, walks a child to the to the school, walks back outside. Now they have every right to apprehend this person. >> Okay. So >> if you have a
014sheriff, you guys have a sheriff's department on patrol, you guys here, right? Do you have a school resource officer? No. >> Security. Okay. What I would do is contact your local sheriff's department, which would be Lakewood Station. get a hold of a liaron and talk to them about any possible situations that you can think of for your campuses. So, if you guys have had any encounters where you guys are kind of like, "Hey, this is kind of weird," you can the sheriff's department and ask for their guidance on what they can do, what services they can provide for your campuses if something was to be in happen in the near future. Okay? Some kind of safety plan. So definitely contact the leon of the LA County Sheriff's Department. >> Thank you for that. Any other
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