Dozens possibly detained by federal officials amid immigration raids in Los Angeles

Federal instrumentality enforcement officials look to person engaged successful different migration crackdown successful Los Angeles Friday morning.

At a Home Depot successful the Westlake District adjacent downtown Los Angeles, masked officers wearing vests emblazoned with HSI for Homeland Security Investigations could beryllium seen taking astatine slightest a mates of radical into custody.

Footage shared to the Citizen app shows masked national agents detaining radical astatine a Home Depot successful the Westlake District connected June 6, 2025.

Footage shared to the Citizen app shows what appears to beryllium advocates for migrants trying to face instrumentality enforcement, but their efforts to escaped those detained were unsuccessful.

When Sky5 arrived connected country conscionable aft 10 a.m., HSI agents had near the scene, but dozens of radical remained, including the advocates who attempted to halt the detentions.

Federal agents person targeted Southern California Home Depot stores with akin actions successful the past.

Also connected Friday, akin raids appeared astatine 2 Ambiance Apparel locations successful downtown Los Angeles.

KTLA's Rich Prickett reported from Sky5 that a mates twelve radical person been detained.

In a statement, a spokesperson for the instrumentality enforcement bureau Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which is successful the Department of Homeland Security, declined to "confirm oregon sermon the beingness oregon presumption of operations."

"The bureau publically announces the results of operations erstwhile appropriate. As portion of its regular operations, ICE arrests aliens who perpetrate crimes and different individuals who person violated our nation’s migration laws," the connection said. "All aliens successful usurpation of U.S. migration instrumentality whitethorn beryllium taxable to arrest, detention and, if recovered removable by last order, removal from the United States, careless of nationality."

In a statement, the FBI confirmed to KTLA that they are participating successful the HSI raids not conscionable successful Los Angeles but nationally, "as directed by the Attorney General."

"As we person been asked to do, we are sending Agents to enactment successful these migration enforcement efforts," the connection said. "That includes assisting successful cities wherever large operations are already underway and wherever we person peculiar agents embedded connected operational teams with DHS. Our assistance whitethorn alteration depending connected what DHS needs, specified arsenic SWAT operators, who tin enactment precocious hazard apprehension operations, and different resources specified arsenic quality analysts and method enactment moving from bid posts."

In a statement, Los Angeles Police Department Chief Jim McDonnell noted that the section is not progressive successful "civil migration enforcement."

"We volition not assistance oregon enactment successful immoderate benignant of wide deportations, nor volition the LAPD effort to find an individual's migration status," helium said.

Nidia Becerra and Marc Sternfield contributed to this report.