Last Thursday, L.A. TACO was investigating ICE sightings at the ISAP office in Downtown Los Angeles on Hill Street and 2nd Street, a popular location amidst the ongoing, quieter ICE raids happening now in Southern California.
While there, we witnessed masked federal immigration agents drive towards the loading dock, just as another agent was bringing down a man from the ISAP office—who we would later discover to be Isaac Antonio Villegas Molina.
“Last week, ICE arrested Isaac Villegas despite an immigration judge’s order granting his release on bond, in what appears to be retaliation for speaking out against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS),” ACLU wrote in a statement. “Last summer, when the federal government unleashed an illegal deportation campaign on Southern California communities using blatant racial profiling tactics, brave individuals like Isaac Villegas stood up to the Department of Homeland Security to protect the dignity of all people.”…