LAKE WORTH BEACH — A vigil will take place Dec. 11 at the Guatemalan-Maya Center in honor of an unaccounted number of people detained this week during immigration-enforcement operations in central Palm Beach County.
Local activists recorded on Dec. 8 a series of sweeps including roadblocks set up along busy roadways between Lake Worth Beach and Lantana and an attempted raid by Border Patrol and Florida Highway Patrol officers at a residential construction project along 10th Ave North that includes affordable housing.
At the building site, videos shared on social-media platforms showed a chaotic scene with workers in neon shirts sprinting from the worksite to hide behind nearby trees. One activist, Mariana Blanco, the director of the Guatemalan-Maya Center, could be heard yelling out to the targeted workers their rights and urging people to close their doors…