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ICE launches ‘military-style’ raids in Los Angeles: What we know

More than 40 people arrested by immigration officials in ‘oppressive and vile paramilitary operation’, advocates say.

Angelica Salas, executive director of the Coalition of Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA), which covers California – home to the US’s largest population of undocumented people – said advocates had recorded enforcement activity at seven sites. Caleb Soto, of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, told Al Jazeera that between 70 and 80 people had been detained, but only three lawyers have been allowed access to the detention centre where they were being held to provide legal advice. As news of the raids spread via social media and through immigrant advocacy networks, hundreds of protesters gathered outside the Edward R Roybal Federal Building in downtown Los Angeles, where detainees were being processed.

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