Source: In These Times
by Thomas Birmingham
“On Friday, the Trump administration began its brutal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids in Los Angeles with a clear target: workers. All told, over 40 immigrants were arrested, including Home Depot employees snatched from company parking lots and roughly two dozen garment workers detained at an Ambiance Apparel warehouse. By the day’s end, ICE had also detained David Huerta, the president of SEIU California …. To discuss how the abduction of garment workers can be seen as an effort to prevent immigrants from organizing, and how the labor movement can work to respond to ICE’s aggression, In These Times spoke with Marissa Nuncio, Director of the Garment Worker Center in the heart of the Fashion District, who explained that the protests have become ‘a lightning bolt moment where the realities of our government, the realities of exploitation and of repression are [being] revealed’.” (06/11/25)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/ice-raids-garment-workers-los-angeles