The heat wave this weekend did not stop the community from gathering on Saturday outside Los Angeles City Hall, where, in temperatures of 87 degrees, they raised their voices in protest against the multiple deaths caused by ICE in the last two weeks.

“The united people will never be defeated!” “No more deaths!” shouted the PSL-Los Angeles organizers, who called the protest.

In front of the steps of City Hall, they held a large banner that read: “From Houston to Maine to Los Angeles: Stop the Terror of ICE!” The protest is part of several demonstrations organized throughout the United States following the murders of Lorenzo Salgado in Houston and Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Maine at the hands of ICE agents.

Both men, without knowing each other, had a lot in common: they were fathers; Both were on their way to work when they were chased by masked men and both were shot to death by immigration agents. In both cases, DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin defended the fatal shootings of Salgado and Guerrero, claiming that officers feared for public safety and that the men were trying to evade arrest.

In response to these murders, protests have broken out in various areas of the city. On Tuesday, protesters took to the streets of Los Angeles to express their outrage and demand action in relation to the two fatal shootings, and on Saturday they continued the call to action to demand justice for the families of both men.

“I'm here because I'm tired of ICE terrorizing my family and my community; people are afraid to go to school, work or the hospital, and that's on purpose,” said Adriana, of the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL). "ICE wants our communities to fall apart; they want us to be afraid to organize and defend ourselves, but we are not going to let that happen."

The crowd that Saturday was diverse, with Latinos, Asians and other groups coming to City Hall to stand in solidarity with the Latino community and all those who are currently vulnerable to immigration detention.

Among the group was Marissa Godínez, who attended the mini-festival with her partner. She said she was there representing 10 of her friends who, throughout this time, have not been able to attend the protests because they are undocumented. With anger and pain visible in his tone of voice, he said that he had never seen anything like what is happening with immigration operations in his life.

"I am here because I do not want so many murders to be normalized. Enough with all this," said Godínez. "We are honest and hard-working people and we are not going to allow ourselves to be treated this way; they are not going to intimidate us."

Next to Godínez was Raúl Añor Beñanes, who held a stop sign that said “Stop the raids.” Looking around, Beñanes said he believes it is everyone's responsibility to speak up and not allow the movement to die down. The demonstration that day was small compared to the massive demonstrations seen before, but the collective grief and indignation could still be felt.

“We are tired of seeing how working class immigrants have been killed and imprisoned,” Beñanes said. “And it's time for people to realize that if they kill an immigrant or a citizen, they can kill any of us.”

“We should all be out here, Latinos, browns, Asians, everyone, the more numbers, the louder our voices,” he added.

As organizers, which also included groups like Black Lives Matter, spoke to the public, certain members of the community began to flock to the shadows for a moment before gathering into the group. Some of those were Yoojin Lee and her son, who attended their second march of the week.

Her 6-year-old son held a banner that said “K-Town ICE Hunters” with stickers from the K-pop cartoon Demon Hunters, an animated fantasy film that tells the story of the members of a famous K-pop girl group who use their music to fight soul-eating demons.

"We're from Koreatown; my son loves K-pop demon hunters, so we collaborated on this sign and called ourselves 'K-town ICE Hunters,'" explained Lee, who is a resident of Koreatown in Los Angeles. “As an immigrant, I believe that we have the right to stay here and that we all need to feel safe; we are all from different places, but we deserve to be here, that is why I am here with my son.”

The deaths caused by ICE worry people in all states because, although the mass raids have not been seen on a large scale like they were at the beginning, the raids have never stopped, according to organizers. Putting the most vulnerable people at risk of becoming ICE's next victim.

Faced with the traffic stops, DHS briefly ordered a moratorium on vehicle stops, but Trump revoked the order less than 24 hours later.

"Personally, I feel helpless when I see all the injustices that are being done to us. I wonder what more we can do," said Julia González, with sadness in her eyes. “The community has to organize, we cannot allow them to take another life.”