Southland leaders continue to lash out at ongoing immigration-enforcement raids in the area, saying masked federal agents were employing questionable tactics by traveling in often-unmarked vehicles and making arrests without showing identification or producing warrants.
The criticism followed another weekend of immigrants being detained, with some actions captured on cell phone video and generating allegations of excessive force or unwarranted arrests.
On Saturday, a man identified as Narciso Barranco — father to three sons who served in the U.S. Marines — was taken into custody in Santa Ana. The video shows several masked agents taking the man to the ground, striking him several times. One of his sons said his father was working as a landscaper at an IHOP restaurant at Edinger Avenue and Ritchey Street when he was arrested…