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Watch: Investigation finds patterns in California immigration raids
Federal agents descend on MacArthur Park in Los Angeles on July 7, 2025.
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CalMatters has partnered with Evident Media and Bellingcat to map and analyze videos of the immigration raids across Los Angeles in a new short documentary:
The film builds off of previous CalMatters reporting:
- ‘Brazen, midday kidnappings:’ LA immigration sweeps violate Constitution, lawsuit says
- Taken: What happens after an LA immigration raid
- He misled the public about his last big immigration sweep. Now he’s leading the Border Patrol in LA
- Border Patrol said it targeted known criminals in Kern County. But it had no record on 77 of 78 arrestees
This article was originally published on CalMatters and was republished under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license.
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