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As immigration raids and arrests continue to terrorize communities across the United States, we look at grassroots efforts to fight back. ICE has faced widespread backlash over the arrest of community advocates swept up while documenting raids across the country, many of them U.S. citizens. In Los Angeles, nurse and community activist Amanda Trebach was released from federal custody this weekend without criminal charges, after she was violently arrested early Friday morning while recording the operations of federal immigration agents in the area. Trebach, who is part of the community group Unión del Barrio, was released Saturday after intense community pressure.

“This is just another example of the Trump administration and their fascist ICE agents — or whoever they are, because they’re unidentified — violating the rights and breaking the law that they’re supposed to protect,” says Ron Gochez, an organizer with Unión del Barrio.

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As mass raids continue to terrorize communities nationwide, we look now at the grassroots response and the people who are organizing and fighting back. ICE has faced widespread backlash over the arrest of community advocates who have been swept up while documenting raids, including U.S. citizens.

In Los Angeles, a nurse and community activist was released from federal custody this weekend without criminal charge, after she was arrested early Friday morning while recording the operations of ICE agents. Amanda Trebach is a member of the group Unión del Barrio. She was participating in a peace patrol outside Terminal Island, a Coast Guard base that’s used by ICE and Customs and Border Protection as a hub to prepare and deploy agents for raids across California. Dozens of volunteers have routinely stationed outside Terminal Island to monitor the movement of the federal vehicles streaming in and out of the staging area. Terminal Island was once a thriving Japanese American fishing village that was demolished during World War II, its residents forcibly sent to internment camps.

Footage of Amanda Trebach’s arrest Friday morning shows two plainclothes, masked agents pinning her against the pavement as they kneel on her back to handcuff her. One of the agents is seen putting his knee........

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