In Southern California, Small Groups of Activists Quietly Undermine ICE Operations
Briefly

In June 2025 small groups of activists in Long Beach organized late-night actions outside local hotels to monitor and deter Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from resting on private property. Word spread on social media and local residents converged on multiple hotels, using stealthy tactics, real-time coordination, and decentralized networks to observe, disrupt, and expose ICE movements. The actions aimed to protect vulnerable community members and to make enforcement more difficult and visible. Similar rapid-response monitoring efforts expanded across Los Angeles County and Southern California as a common tool in local anti-ICE activism.
They shouldn't be kidnapping people off the street,
If [ICE] wants to come back after a day of kidnapping landscapers and want to kick back and have a beer at the Residence Inn, I say no,
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