Agents with both U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol were seen outside a Home Depot in Huntington Park on Tuesday morning.
According to Serio Infanzon, the city of Huntington Park’s director of communications and community relations, officials received reports of ICE agents arriving at the Home Depot on Slauson Avenue around 7:30 a.m.
Video posted to the Citizen App shows a convoy of U.S. Customs and Border Patrol vehicles in the parking lot and on Slauson along with unmarked cars; an agent was seen hopping out of the truck and entering one of the unmarked SUVs while stopped in traffic.
Whether anyone was immediately detained is not known. Per Infanzon, Huntington Park Police Department officers are not involved Tuesday morning, and no protests were reported right away.
Infanzon also noted that city officials got word of ICE agents in the neighboring city of Maywood.
Reports of ICE at Huntington Park High School were not able to be confirmed.
ICE agents have been conducting raids in the Los Angeles area since Friday, when businesses in downtown L.A. and the Westlake District were raided and workers were detained.
On Saturday, a raid in Paramount drew a crowd of protesters there, in nearby Compton and in downtown. President Donald Trump ordered the National Guard to be deployed late that night, which angered both L.A. Mayor Karen Bass and California Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Sunday’s demonstrations escalated into chaos in DTLA, with protesters throwing projectiles at law enforcement, doing dangerous stunts and looting businesses. More than 40 people were arrested on various charges and at least 11 law enforcement officers from different agencies were injured in the violence on Sunday.