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ICE activity conducts communities in Los Angeles to cancel the celebrations of July 4

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Los Angeles and several surrounding cities cancel – or postpone – the celebrations of July 4 in response to increased activity of federal immigration officials in the region.

THE County of Los Angeles Department of Parks and Recreation has postponed a series of summer films and concerts, while canceling the celebration of the East Los Angeles Rock’N of this year “out of caution and in response to a recent activity of application of ice”.

One of the greatest events of July 4 in the city which attracted thousands of people in 2024, the summer party of Gloria Molina Grand Park, was indefinitely postponed due to “the current circumstances having an impact on the region”.

Other communities surrounding Los Angeles would also have decided to cancel their events of July 4 in the light of the application of federal immigration in progress in the region, including the cities of Bell Gardens, Boyle Heights, Cudahy, Huntington Park, Whitter and the city of El Sereno.

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American immigration and customs agents have held a suspect as they carry out a targeted application operation in Los Angeles in February 2017. (Gracieuse of Charles Reed / US Immigration and Customs Smart via Reuters)

In Huntington Park, the cancellation goes beyond the July 4 holidays and includes a 30-day break on “certain public summer events”, according to a press release published by the City.

“The reports of undeveloped vehicles and unidentified federal agents have created a generalized analysis, especially among immigrant and mixed families,” according to the Huntington Park press release. “Many residents have expressed fear and uncertainty, leading them to stay inside, abstain from work and withdraw from daily public life. Our priority is and will continue to be the security and peace of mind of our community.”

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Los Angeles and the surrounding cities have canceled the celebrations of July 4 in response to increased activity of federal immigration officials. (Istock; David Dee Delgado / Getty Images)

The officials of these communities interrupting their independence day events were frank against the Trump administration’s decision to strengthen the federal immigration application.

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The mayor of Huntington Park, Arturo Flores, described the increased prevalence of ice raids in Los Angeles and the surrounding area as a “domestic terror campaign” and “a” psychological war that I only saw in war theaters “, according to The Guardian.

Meanwhile, the vice-mayor of the city of Cudahy would have called gang leaders in a Tiktok post now abolished to defend their territory against ice.

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The demonstrators faced the police outside a federal building last month in downtown Los Angeles during an anti-Trump demonstration “No Kings Day”. (Spencer Platt / Getty images)

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A Report on Monday By the New York Times, noted that, since June 6, “agents of several federal agencies have arrested around 2,000 immigrants in the Los Angeles region”, according to documents obtained by the point of sale, which added that the arrests “were one of the reasons why so much are in advance”.

This week, the Pentagon published 150 troops of the California National Guard of its federal security mission in Los Angeles to help fight forest fires.



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