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SUMMARY:Brittny Mejia\, LA Times and Memo Torres\, LA TACO
DESCRIPTION:A recent Supreme Court ruling has opened the floodgates for “
 roving patrols” of federal agents to stop people on the street if they s
 uspect they might be in the United States undocumented. If they’re speak
 ing a foreign language\, if they happen to look like they are here undoc
 umented\, they are fair game for possible detention. The roundups of imm
 igrants by ICE and other agencies have caused turmoil\, anguish\, and un
 certainty in many parts of Los Angeles. From Downtown to Beverly Hills\,
  from Reseda to the South Bay\, communities and businesses have experien
 ced raids by masked and armed agents\, rounding up workers at car washes
 \, home improvement stores\, on streets in residential areas\, and in fr
 ont of construction sites. The impact can be felt as they are too fright
 ened to show up for work\, and too frightened to risk sending their chil
 dren to school. Memo Torres and Brittny Mejia will discuss the challenge
 s not only facing the communities and individuals at risk\, but the chal
 lenges of reporting these stories. Memo Torres is a journalist for LA TA
 CO\, an independent news platform dedicated to covering on-the-street re
 porting everything from\, yes\, the best tacos\, to the current crisis i
 n roundups by ICE. Torres is a multi-media journalist and is the host of
  the site’s Daily Memo\, and is a favorite journalist of MSNBC’s Jacob S
 oboroff. His reporting covers stories long neglected by mainstream media
 . Brittny Mejia is a journalist for the Los Angeles Times. Her coverage 
 of ICE and Border Patrol roundups is relentless\, and she was short-list
 ed for a well-deserved Pulitzer Prize for her work on healthcare in vuln
 erable communities. Mejia relentlessly covers the Latinx community in so
 uthern California\, and has been named by CCNMA Latino Journalists of Ca
 lifornia as one of the most influential Latinas in California. Limited p
 arking onsite. We recommend rideshares and carpooling. Please allow time
  to find parking. Did you know that you can make a fully tax-deductible 
 donation? As a\n\nTickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/writers-bloc-pre
 sents-brittny-mejia-la-times-and-memo-torres-la-taco-tickets-17131348855
 59\n\nhttps://findlocal.community/event/823f0343-224d-4ec6-ab20-c062e97a
 abac
LOCATION:Writers Bloc Presents\, 8383 Wilshire Blvd\, Beverly Hills\, CA 
 90211
URL:https://findlocal.community/event/823f0343-224d-4ec6-ab20-c062e97aaba
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