LA vs ICE

Most national coverage of LA’s immigration raids follows a predictable pattern: arrest numbers, ICE statements, and mayoral responses. But when raids hit a neighborhood, what actually happens? Who shows up? What do people do in those first moments, and in the weeks that follow?

Six newsrooms across Los Angeles County — including LA Public Press, Capital B, CALÓ News, LA Taco, Capital & Main, and Q Voice News — came together to document what happens on the ground when communities respond to enforcement. The rapid response networks, the neighbor-to-neighbor help, the organizing that determines who stays with their family and who gets deported.

As small, community-rooted newsrooms—some of us made up of people from these very communities—we have access and trust that larger outlets don’t. By dividing up coverage, we avoid duplication and can focus on how people are actually navigating this, not just the enforcement actions themselves.

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