Following recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids across the country and throughout Los Angeles County, several National Hispanic Heritage Month community events have been cancelled out of concern for the Latine community.
Long Beach city council member Mary Zendejas announced Friday that the annual Día de los Muertos Parade, originally set to take place in early November, would be canceled for 2025 out of fear of ICE raids. Only a few days earlier, Pasadena announced that it would no longer host their annual Latino Heritage Parade as well.
Research from the Equity Research Institute at USC Dornsife estimates that over a third of LA County’s residents are immigrants; 27 percent of those immigrants are undocumented. Since June 6, ICE and U.S. Customs and Border Protection have made over 4,000 arrests in the LA area, according to a statement provided by Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin to the LA Times…