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“This is a community where we have students from East L.A. Some of these students have had their parents, their cousins and other family members abducted by ICE recently. This is one of L.A.’s most vulnerable communities,” Levy said.

The government has slowly started releasing the backlog of economic data reports that were put on ice due to the record-long shutdown.

A favorite from a few years back: a heavy pour of local apple cider, the juice of a lemon, the juice of an orange, enough Topo Chico to make the punch bowl hiss, and citrus-herb ice cubes—twigs of rosemary, wheels of citrus, frozen in place like tiny stained-glass windows.

“Here we are in late 2025, with rampant speculation in crypto, private equity, leveraged single-stock ETFs and leveraged private lending, to say nothing of stratospheric capex on AI infrastructure that depreciates faster than ice cream on an August afternoon,” they wrote.

The audio that played from Torres’ double-screen computer and smart phone as he reviewed the evidence on the day I visited contained snippets of the Southland’s sad soundtrack under what he continually calls the “siege” of ICE.