The murder of Renee Good and Alex Pretti at the hands of President Trump's immigration police in Minneapolis has terrified the entire country, not to mention the undocumented community of Los Angeles, who wonder, if they kill American citizens, what awaits us?

Some say, as if it were a consolation, 'we in Los Angeles have already been through That's true, but who guarantees that the Trump Administration's anti-immigrant war won't return to sanctuary cities and states? And while ICE and the Border Patrol are cracking down on other cities governed by Democrats, the hunt continues unabated in Los Angeles. Every day, immigrants are violently arrested on the streets. Several masked agents grab them and, emboldened, throw them like sacks of potatoes into their vans. They haven't only focused on day laborers, men looking for work outside Home Depot stores, car washers, and street vendors, but they've also targeted gardeners, construction workers, and even flower vendors on street corners. Anyone they see working in public or doing jobs that white people don't want to do is, in ICE's eyes, suspected of being undocumented.

They've even pulled people up from the sidewalks outside the Guatemalan Consulate in Los Angeles. There's no respect for any space.

And in the face of all this, there's a sense that there's a lack of leadership and that the Democrats aren't doing enough beyond statements, symbolic bills, and lawsuits that often end up favoring the Trump Administration, as was the case with the use of racial profiling.

Let's remember that the Supreme Court gave federal immigration agents in Los Angeles the green light to use race and other factors of racial discrimination to decide who to detain and potentially arrest. And they're doing it to the letter.

The Mexican Consulate in Los Angeles reported that most of the Mexicans arrested by immigration officials in this area are from Oaxaca.

It's time for our leaders,California representatives need to get their act together and take action; they shouldn't bet everything on the midterm elections in Congress, which could potentially shift the composition in favor of the Democrats. And that's not even considering that there are Democrats who are closet Republicans. Take the case of the seven Democrats who joined Republicans to pass the budget bill that allocates more money to ICE. Luckily, none of them are from California. But we have them here too. Don't get complacent.

A fierce race

The campaign of Maria Lou Calanche, candidate for Los Angeles City Council in District 1, announced that they raised $135,000 in donations from 450 people, more than any of the other five candidates vying to unseat Councilwoman Eunisses Hernandez.

For Calanche, this figure reflects, in some way, the discontent in Los Angeles City Council District 1 with the current leadership headed by Hernandez.

“People are ready for a new direction because we deserve better,” said Calanche, who lives in Boyle Heights and is the founder of the nonprofit organization Legacy LA; she is also the current director of the Expand LA program, which provides after-school services for young people.

She and Raul Claros are the candidates most likely to remove Hernandez from the Council. But there are other candidates: Sylvia Robledo, Jesse Rosas, Rosa Requeno, and Nelson Grande. So we're looking at what promises to be the fiercest campaign at the local level.

It's curious that we're finally seeing Councilwoman Hernandez super active.

Why do so many politicians wait to get down to work until they're already in deep trouble? When they have a reelection campaign, they don't stop; and as soon as they win, they let loose.

Perhaps Councilwoman Hernandez has done everything in her power to solve the serious problems at MacArthur Park, but it's clear that her strategies have failed because the iconic site is plagued by drug addiction and crime; and it's in a disastrous state, to the point that it's now considered a second Skid Row, not only the park but its surroundings, which have become the perfect setting for a horror movie.