Produce market in downtown LA sits empty after ICE immigration raids across SoCal (abc7.com)
from kiku@feddit.org to losangeles@lemmy.world on 18 Jun 2025 17:46
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LOS ANGELES (KABC) – The produce market in downtown Los Angeles has become another casualty of the ICE raids happening across Southern California, with employees not showing up and customers staying away out of fear of being detained.

Rotting fruit and vegetables scattered throughout the market were seen on Tuesday in what would otherwise be a bustling scene. Store after store closed for now, each with plenty to sell but no one to buy.

The immigrant community usually fills the L.A. produce market but since ICE agents arrived in downtown, the market has been empty, with only a trickle of workers showing up.

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givesomefucks@lemmy.world on 18 Jun 2025 17:54 next collapse

It hits Cali first because everywhere else already has stuff in transit…

Give it a week or two and it’ll be everywhere

pelespirit@sh.itjust.works on 18 Jun 2025 18:33 collapse

Do the techbros financing this administration live in California?

Kaboom@reddthat.com on 18 Jun 2025 20:00 collapse

Well that’s fucked up. California had that big of a slave class?

shalafi@lemmy.world on 18 Jun 2025 22:09 next collapse

Yep. Most food producing states do.

kerntucky@infosec.pub on 20 Jun 2025 00:07 collapse

It’s not that all of them are undocumented, it’s the fact that ICE is kidnapping anyone brown and sorting them out later. Being detained by ICE probably isn’t fun.