Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧<p>They Saw Their Neighbors Taken Away by ICE. Then They Made a Plan. </p><p>By Michelle Goldberg<br>July 30, 2025, 5:01 a.m. ET </p><p>from <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NewYorkTimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewYorkTimes</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NYT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NYT</span></a><br>[gift article] </p><blockquote><blockquote><p>The widespread raids that have upended life in Los Angeles may soon spread to other cities, especially now that Republicans in Congress have increased <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a>’s budget ... “We are a petri dish,” Mayor Karen Bass of <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/LosAngeles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LosAngeles</span></a> told me. “They’re experimenting with us. If they come and make this stand in LA, then they can scare all the other cities, just like the universities have been scared, just like the legal firms have been scared.”</p><p>Yet if <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/LA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LA</span></a> is a testing ground for mass <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/deportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deportation</span></a>, it’s also a place to see how the resistance is evolving. Though there have been some big anti-<a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> marches this year, many of those most horrified by this administration are looking for more immediate, tangible ways to thwart it.</p></blockquote></blockquote><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/opinion/ice-immigration-protest-resistance.html?unlocked_article_code=1.aU8.UpOG.sxZOVrT_AdPs&smid=url-share" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/07/30/opinion</span><span class="invisible">/ice-immigration-protest-resistance.html?unlocked_article_code=1.aU8.UpOG.sxZOVrT_AdPs&smid=url-share</span></a></p><p><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/StopTheDeportations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StopTheDeportations</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigrants</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>press</span></a></p>