South LA school rallies after ICE targets student's family
Assistant Principal Lorena Reynoso drove to a barbershop standoff after a junior sought help amid an active ICE operation during Los Angeles’ 2025 deportation surge.
By Cora Cervantes, MindSite News
In June 2025, Los Angeles became ground zero for the Trump administration’s deportation campaign and the first city to experience a “surge” by immigration enforcement personnel. ICE agents, backed by National Guard troops and, for a time, Marines, flooded into the city, especially South Los Angeles, where more than half the population speaks Spanish and nearly 40% are foreign-born. For Axel Lopez, a junior at a high school in South Los Angeles, the threat came right to his backyard.