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  Blog Happy June, Well, I can’t lie…it’s been a wild June. For members of IANA who don’t know, I was born and raised in California…we also have members of IANA that are born and raised or living in Los Angeles…and we’ve been seeing a lot of raids of immigrants coming from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) led by Donald Trump. They are raiding several locations in Los Angeles, capturing “illegal” immigrants and kicking them out, and they are not just targeting “illegal” immigrants, but also immigrants that came here legally. Honestly, they are targeting everybody. There have been several protests in L.A. over these ICE raids. Many have been peaceful protests, although the media has only been covering the riots, (like I expected). There have also been several protests here in the San Francisco Bay Area, especially in San Francisco and in my city, Oakland. Let me say that I’m in solidarity with the families affected by the ICE raids, the families that had family memb...