Every day, social discontent in the United States grows due to the Trump administration's economic policies, which is why on Labor Day, the rejection of the immigration raids that have divided thousands of families, particularly Latinos, predominated.

In Los Angeles, the national Labor Day initiative, announced as “stop the takeover of the billionaires,” dozens of allies joined the RevComms, who called for a “stop to the fascist Donald Trump regime”; while a track and field race crossed the city center with the slogan: Run against ICE.

Caught by surprise, agents from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) blocked the doors of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Detention Center when the runners passed by on Alameda Street.

The group of athletes against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was joined by some members of the “Occupy LA” group, who have been stationed at the intersection of Aliso and Alameda Streets since President Trump decided to militarize several cities in California.

Their onslaught led to a clash of mutual racial insults between members of the group and some DHS agents.

“You are not allowed to run.” “You don’t have a permit to protest,” the officers shouted.

“Since when do you need a permit to run in the street?” the protesters demanded. “You are fucking racists.”

“You are a fucking racist!” one protester yelled at a DHS agent.

“You are the fucking racist,” the officer retorted, immediately brandishing his machine gun. His colleagues managed to control their anger and immediately removed him from the scene.

“Three days ago we protested in this same place and they shot me with rubber bullets,” said Sully, a 28-year-old constitutional law student.

“They came out of their federal building and shot at us,” she said, showing the marks of rubber bullet shrapnel on her arm.

“We are not moving from here,until migra leaves Los Angeles forever,” she declared. “They want to treat us like we’re slaves, but we’re not afraid of them.”

Photos of 100 “Disappeared” by ICE Displayed

On the side of the 101 Freeway in downtown Los Angeles, artist Pauline Mateos and members of RefuseFascism.org placed 100 photographs of 100 immigrants who disappeared after being arrested by immigration agents.

“I did this project so that people reflect that if we let this [immigration raids] continue to happen against the most vulnerable people, it will only be a matter of time before they [ICE] come for the rest of us.”

And, by then, it might be too late to fight back!” she warned.

The visual installation of the 30-meter-long wall of portraits is, she said, “a small sample of the thousands and thousands of people kidnapped by the regime Trump’s fascist.”

The project was created under the banner of RefuseFascism as a call to “remember, resist, and act.”

'It’s going to get worse'

In fact, Michelle Xai, a member of Revcom Corps for the Emancipation of Humanity, announced that a call has gone out to all Americans to take the resistance to the White House on November 5.

“The call is to flood the streets of Washington, DC, in a nonviolent but sustained way,” she said. “We must not allow them to overwhelm our efforts. History has taught us… that if we fight him here and there, no matter how brave and important it is, we will be overwhelmed…”

She called for unity “because our determination is to demand that Trump go,” she said. “All of the resistance has been brave and important, but The time has come to take the resistance to a whole new level. So join us in Washington on November 5th.”

Alfonso Morales, an immigration attorney and Lynwood school board member, warned in his address that people need to stay united “because this is not going to stop.”

“Now we have the artwork of the 100 missing people, but starting today, the immigration situation is going to get worse.”

Morales explained that the Supreme Court is deciding whether it is permissible for immigration agents to use race, language, and occupation as grounds for an arrest.

“It’s basically legalizing discrimination, and it’s not supposed to exist here in the United States,” Morales explained.

Attending the protest was Anita Lozano, wife of Ambrocio Lozano, the famous Culver City ice cream vendor who was arrested by ICE on June 23.

“They took him from Los Angeles to Texas, and now they have him in New Mexico,” said Anita, an immigrant from Cuernavaca, Morelos. “What I miss most about my husband is his presence.”

Fortunately, the money raised from a GoFundMe account has allowed her to pay the attorney's fees, which requires her to travel to see him in another state.

“He hasn't signed any voluntary deportation papers and he won't,” added Kimberly Noriega, Ambrocio's niece.

The Summer of Resistance Continues

Defying the high temperatures, dozens of athletes, immigrants, and citizens participated in the so-called Run Against ICE, organized by the Service Employees International Union, SEIU Local 721, which started from Olvera Plaza to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles. The five-mile ride concluded at BMO Stadium.

Remember how we resisted Arpaio? We’re going to do it again,” said Martin Manteca, the union’s organizing director, about the so-called Summer of Resistance. “We’ll do this until Trump is defeated.”

Joe Arpaio, former sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, from 1992 to 2016, called himself “America’s toughest sheriff,”[1] and starting in 2005, he adopted a brutal stance against illegal immigration.