Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition
Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
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While ICE Raided Nearly 100 7-Eleven Stores in Pre-Dawn Nationwide
Sweeps, California Unions Resists Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Actions
with
Rusty Hicks, President of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor
California unions are moving to protect undocumented
workers and immigrants against attacks from the Trump
regime. They are vigorously supporting AB450, a bill
introduced by state Rep. David Chiu, D-San Francisco,
which gives undocumented immigrants “affirmative
protections” against indiscriminate raids by agents from
the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE).
And then they darned their armor, after learning agents
from the Department of Immigration and Customs
Enforcement would be visiting a 7-Eleven store in
Koreatown to conduct interviews and an audit, and
decided to stage a protest outside of the store, holding
signs that read, “Immigrants are welcome here.” ICE
raided close to one hundred 7-Eleven stores nation-wide,
including five in Los Angeles. While people were arrested in
other states, none were arrested in Southern California,
however ICE issued a statement saying there were would
e more raids to come.
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