Angie Vargas, a resident of southeast Los Angeles and mother of two, will be the first to tell you she’s a proud soccer mom. A mental health professional by trade, Vargas travels with her teenage daughters to their games practically every weekend, cheering them on from the bleachers. “People ask me, ‘When do the girls start soccer?’ And I’m like, ‘The girls are year-round,’” Vargas tells me one morning over coffee. “They never take a break.”
Much like her daughters, Vargas enjoys staying busy. Though she doesn’t have ample free time to spare as a soccer mom with a full-time job, Vargas tries to use whatever slivers she can manage shrewdly. “The minutes that I do have extra, I use them for the community,” she says. “To give back or to be able to do something more.”
Her method? Chasing Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers with her car. Behind the wheel of her Mercedes, a megaphone in hand, Vargas follows federal and plainclothes officers around town — documenting whom they’re detaining and what they’re doing via a camera placed on her dashboard…