Man Fleeing Immigration Raid In California Fatally Struck By Vehicle, Officials Say

A man was deed and killed connected a Southern California freeway Thursday while he was moving from an migration ambush astatine a Home Depot, authorities said.

Dylan Feik, nan metropolis head of Monrovia, successful Los Angeles County astir 10 miles northeast of Pasadena, said a constabulary serviceman saw nan ambush aft nan constabulary section received a telephone astir U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity successful nan area.

During nan activity, personification ran onto nan 210 Freeway, he said. Shortly afterward, nan occurrence section and emergency workers responded to a telephone of a conveyance hitting a pedestrian.

The personification was taken to a infirmary and died from injuries sustained successful nan incident, Feik said.

The California Highway Patrol said that nan unfortunate was a man and that nan circumstances astir his decease are nether investigation. His personality has not been publically released.

Video recorded moments aft nan mishap shows a man successful a achromatic T-shirt lying adjacent nan wrong lane of nan freeway.

Vincent Enriquez, who recorded nan video, said he thought astatine first it was a motorcycle accident.

“I was benignant of confused connected really he was connected nan freeway laying down,” he said. “I assumed either he was deed by a car trying to transverse aliases he must’ve gotten retired of nan conveyance from a car accident.”

The Department of Homeland Security denied its agents chased nan personification and said they do not cognize nan person’s ineligible status.

"This individual was not being pursued by immoderate DHS rule enforcement," a spokesperson said successful a statement. "We were not alert of this incident aliases notified by California Highway Patrol until hours aft operations successful nan area had concluded."

Feik said that nan metropolis did not person immoderate further accusation astir nan operation, including astir immoderate imaginable detentions, and that Monrovia has not received immoderate connection from ICE.

Palmira Figueroa, spokesperson for nan National Day Laborer Organizing Network, said 13 workers were detained during nan raid. “It was a violent, fierce bust,” she said. “Some of them were chasing workers successful cars while they were moving away.”

Network organizers are trying to scope family members, arsenic good arsenic nan different men who were detained, Figueroa said.

Videos posted connected societal media look to show agents detaining a personification successful nan parking batch of nan Home Depot, which did not instantly respond to a petition for remark astir nan migration activity.

State Assemblymember John Harabedian, whose territory includes Monrovia, said successful a connection connected his Instagram communicative that 10 group were detained successful nan raid.

"Raids for illustration this do not make our streets safer — they terrorize families, instill fear, and put lives astatine risk," he said.

Immigration officials person concentrated galore of their raids connected Home Depots and different location betterment retailers that time laborers are known to frequent.

On Tuesday, Enforcement Removal Operations agents conducted a “targeted enforcement operation” astatine a Home Depot successful Washington, D.C., arsenic a portion of nan Trump administration’s wider crackdown connected immigrants and bum group successful nan city.

An appeals tribunal this period maintained a Los Angeles federal judge's impermanent restraining order that bars migration agents from utilizing people’s spoken languages aliases jobs, for illustration time laborer, aliases their beingness astatine peculiar locations arsenic nan sole pretext to detain them.