One Year Since LA Became an Epicenter of ICE Terror

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FEATURING MIRIAM ARGHANDIWAL - It has been just over a year since Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents invaded Los Angeles en masse, launching a campaign of terror and violence against immigrant communities. On June 6 and 7, 2025, more than 200 ICE agents swarmed the parking lot of a Home Depot store in Paramount, an LA-area city, and battled community activists who were ready for their assault. In the wake of that inciting incident, coalitions were formed and strengthened even as 700 plus people were kidnapped and disappeared by ICE. 

Miriam Arghandiwal is an organizer with Boycott Home Depot Coalition and Labor for Palestine. She spoke with Sonali Kolhatkar about the successes of the anti-ICE movement in LA over the past year.

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Sonali Kolhatkar: Thank you for having me. Take us back to that day, June 6th, for those who were not just outside LA, but outside Paramount. Because LA is so spread out, it's a big city, and what happens in one part of it is not necessarily felt everywhere. In that Home Depot parking lot of Paramount, give us a sense of what actually played out and took place. It was quite remarkable that news accounts didn't quite capture, I think. 

Miriam Arghandiwal: Yeah. So I myself was not there on June 6th and 7th, June 7th was, I believe, the actual eight-hour stand down between over 200 federal immigration officers and the community of Compton and Paramount. It was outside of the Home Depot in Paramount. Federal agent officers had come to kidnap someone in the Home Depot parking lot, and then the community rose up and said, "It's not going to happen."