At least 10 people were taken by federal immigration agents in the Echo Park and Silver Lake area this past Friday, according to the Echo Park Local, a chapter of the Los Angeles Tenants Union. According to the Echo Park Local’s Instagram account, federal immigration agents appeared to be conducting roving patrols focused on those Los Angeles neighborhoods.
The Echo Park Local of the Los Angeles Tenants Union was the first to provide community support during the federal immigration agent activity–documenting and compiling the incidents on multiple posts to their instagram account.
“Yes, we do tenant organizing but ultimately we’re fighting for people and against displacement of our people from the city they helped build,” says Citlalli, an organizer with EPLATU. “Deportation is a form of displacement.”…