The Prospect Weekly Roundup: Understanding the L.A. Protests

On our live show, David and Harold Meyerson share the history of the largely immigrant city of Los Angeles, and why residents are uniformly resisting ICE raids.

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For a week now, the city of Los Angeles has seen plainclothes, mask-wearing ICE agents in unmarked vehicles roll up to workplaces and snatch people they believe to be undocumented immigrants, in what can only be called kidnapping. The city has formally refused to cooperate with these immigration raids for nearly a half-century, and this determination among its citizens explains the spasms of protests happening in downtown L.A. This week on our live show, David Dayen talked to editor and large and native Angeleno Harold Meyerson about what's really happening at these protests, the entry of the National Guard and Marines, the impact of the ICE raids on immigrant communities, and more.

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