Cities Near La Abandon July 4th Celebrations As Trump's Immigration Crackdown Takes Hold

Los Angeles and respective surrounding cities are canceling — aliases postponing — Fourth of July celebrations successful consequence to accrued activity by national migration officials successful nan area.

The County of Los Angeles Department of Parks and Recreation postponed a summertime movie and performance series, while canceling this year's East Los Angeles Rock'n 4th of July ceremony "out of be aware and successful consequence to caller ICE enforcement activity." 

One of nan city's biggest Fourth of July events that drew thousands successful 2024, nan Gloria Molina Grand Park Summer Block Party, has been indefinitely postponed owed to "the ongoing circumstances impacting nan region." 

Other communities surrounding Los Angeles besides reportedly decided to cancel their Fourth of July events successful ray of nan ongoing national migration enforcement successful nan area, including nan cities of Bell Gardens, Boyle Heights, Cudahy, Huntington Park, Whittier and nan municipality of El Sereno.

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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers detain a fishy arsenic they behaviour a targeted enforcement cognition successful Los Angeles successful February 2017. (Courtesy Charles Reed/U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via Reuters)

In Huntington Park, nan cancellation goes beyond conscionable nan Fourth of July vacation and includes a 30-day region connected "certain nationalist summertime events," according to a connection released by nan city.

"Reports of unmarked vehicles and unidentified national agents person created wide anxiety, peculiarly among migrant and mixed-status families," according to nan Huntington Park statement. "Many residents person expressed fearfulness and uncertainty, starring them to stay indoors, refrain from work, and retreat from regular nationalist life. Our privilege is and will proceed to beryllium nan information and bid of mind of our community." 

Los Angeles and surrounding cities person called disconnected Fourth of July celebrations successful consequence to accrued activity by national migration officials. (iStock; David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)

Officials from these communities halting their Independence Day events person been outspoken against nan Trump administration's determination to ramp up national migration enforcement.

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Huntington Park Mayor Arturo Flores has described nan accrued prevalence of ICE raids successful and astir Los Angeles arsenic a "campaign of home terror" and "psychological warfare that I've only seen successful theaters of war," according to The Guardian. 

Meanwhile, nan vice politician of nan City of Cudahy allegedly called connected pack leaders successful a now-deleted TikTok post to take sides their territory from ICE. 

Protesters faced disconnected pinch rule enforcement extracurricular a national building past period successful downtown Los Angeles during an anti-Trump "No Kings Day" demonstration. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

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A report Monday by The New York Times recovered that, since June 6, "agents from respective national agencies person arrested astir 2,000 immigrants successful nan Los Angeles region," according to documents obtained by nan outlet, which added that nan arrests person "been 1 of nan reasons truthful galore are connected edge."

This week, the Pentagon released 150 California National Guard troops from their national information ngo successful Los Angeles to thief conflict wildfires.