With a Division of Homeland Safety helicopter circling, a number of dozens of closely armed, masked ICE brokers wearing navy tactical gear raided one of the vital standard swaps meets in Southern California, which caters to a predominantly Latino crowd, over the weekend.
The incident, in accordance with video of the occasion captured by photojournalists with OnScene.TV, unfolded Saturday at round 3:30 p.m. on the Santa Fe Springs Swap Meet at 13963 Alondra Blvd.
KTLA’s Carlos Saucedo stories that the sight of ICE brokers despatched many distributors and clients operating, in try to flee the raid.
An estimated 60 Immigration and Customs Enforcement brokers had been seen on the flea market grounds, which additionally homes a music venue.
Some onlookers are seen filming the raid on their cellphones whereas federal authorities moved by means of the gang.
It’s unclear if federal officers anticipated to detain a number of people on the occasion, however regardless of their giant numbers, solely two individuals, a lady and a person, the latter who informed an onlooker he’s Colombian, had been seen in handcuffs as they had been escorted away.
Different unconfirmed stories counsel that no less than a handful of arrests had been made. KTLA has reached out to DHS and is awaiting a response.
Dozens of closely armed, masked ICE brokers seen raiding a Santa Fe Springs Swap Meet on June 14, 2025. (KTLA)
Dozens of closely armed, masked ICE brokers seen raiding a Santa Fe Springs Swap Meet on June 14, 2025. (KTLA)
Dozens of closely armed, masked ICE brokers seen raiding a Santa Fe Springs Swap Meet on June 14, 2025. (KTLA)
Dozens of closely armed, masked ICE brokers seen raiding a Santa Fe Springs Swap Meet on June 14, 2025. (KTLA)
Dozens of closely armed, masked ICE brokers seen raiding a Santa Fe Springs Swap Meet on June 14, 2025. (KTLA)
“ICE is available in and raids the entire place,” Aracely Lopez, a vendor on the open-air market, mentioned. “All of the entrances had been large open. There was a helicopter circling the premises. They had been dragging individuals out of the bogs. They went into all of the areas asking for everybody’s identification.”
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Lopez lamented the raid, including that these are all simply hardworking individuals and that her grandmother and oldsters are afraid to come back to work on the swap meet, which is their most important supply of revenue.
“They’re scared to come back to work,” she mentioned. “I don’t assume they’re going to come back for the subsequent few months.”
The Santa Fe Springs raid comes on the heels of raids in different areas of Los Angeles County.
On June 11, ICE brokers arrested a person at a Downey church, prompting an outcry from neighborhood and non secular leaders. Only a day later, a Huntington Park household’s house was raided by brokers as DHS Secretary Kristi Noem appeared on from the road.
The goal of the search, David Garcia, an undocumented man with a prison report, in accordance with ICE, was not house. His pregnant spouse and 4 youngsters all, U.S. residents, had been pressured out of the home whereas armed brokers searched the residence room by room.
The continued ICE raids have prompted greater than per week of protests all through areas of L.A., significantly downtown, with the Los Angeles Police Division reporting some 561 arrests since anti-ICS demonstrations erupted on June 7.
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