The People Who Show Up: Inside a Community’s Effort to Respond to ICE Raids

Today’s story comes from reporter Sophie Sleep with the Los Angeles Reporting Collective. What does it take to mobilize when ICE arrives? This story follows Proyecto Pastoral, an organization running one of L.A.’s rapid response networks in Boyle Heights, as volunteers learn how to respond to and confront the emotional toll of immigration enforcement. At the heart of it: a community trying to care for families — and for one another.