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Southeast Asian Immigrants in California Face Arrest, Deportation After Routine ICE Check-ins

HeadlineApr 24, 2025

In Southern California, the Department of Homeland Security says its agents arrested 10 people at a raid on day laborers gathered outside a Home Depot store in Pomona on Tuesday morning.

This comes as advocates are raising alarm over the targeting of Southeast Asian immigrants in Los Angeles and Orange County. In the months since Trump returned to office, ICE has detained a growing number of Cambodian, Laotian and Vietnamese immigrants — even though their deportation orders had been placed on indefinite hold, sometimes for several decades.

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