With the largest undocumented population of any US city, much of LA locks in with fundraisers, mutual aid networks and grocery deliveries
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n the days after ramped-up immigration raids began in Los Angeles, 50-year-old Lorena, who has been running a tamale cart in Koreatown for decades, stayed home. So did her husband, who works as a day laborer.
Worried about paying their bills, both of them after a few days went back out to work.
“My son would go around the block and watch out for us,” said Lorena, whom the Guardian is not identifying by her full name for fear of reprisal. He’d text them a warning when he suspected that immigration agents were nearby.
