By Nick Valencia | November 3, 2025
LOS ANGELES— As dusk settled over the Los Angeles skyline and chants echoed off the walls of the Metropolitan Detention Center, federal officers moved in on a familiar crowd of protesters.
Among them was 29-year-old activist Alex Alott, who had spent the better part of the summer standing outside the federal facility, documenting the quiet churn of deportation machinery that most Angelenos never see…