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Andy Donohue
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investigative editor, CalMatters
… These are not enemy combatants in a war zone, but people living and working in America’s second largest city.”

@sergioolmos.bsky.social @wendyfry.bsky.social Lauren Hepler and Anat Rubin on the LA immigration raids.

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'It's not your country:' Stories from men who were taken in the LA immigration raids
CalMatters spoke with a number of migrants about their arrests and detentions after the first weekend of LA raids. Their accounts raise potential legal questions about the government’s operation.
calmatters.org
June 28, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Their families won’t know what happened to them. They’ll be shackled, whisked away to another state, forced to subsist for days on potato chips, apples, water, and the occasional cold sandwich. They’ll sleep on the floor with mylar blankets, without access to showers or even working bathrooms. …
June 28, 2025 at 5:02 PM
When someone runs, they’re taken. When they don’t answer a question, they’re taken. When they can’t produce papers, they’re taken. …
June 28, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Joshua Dougherty has been convicted of vehicular manslaughter twice, for eerily similar crashes.

In 2009, he killed a 16 yo girl. In 2020, he killed his 25 yo girlfriend.

In July of last year, the DMV issued him a driver’s license.
April 14, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Ervin Wyatt’s history: Fleeing police. Fleeing police again. Running a red light. Causing a traffic collision. Driving without a license, four times. A dozen speeding tickets.

Yet the DMV gave him a license in 2019.

In 2023 he crashed into oncoming traffic, killing three women.
April 14, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Ivan Dimov was convicted of reckless driving after fleeing police while his passenger allegedly dumped heroin out the window.

Before that, he got six DUIs in California over a six-year period.

The DMV gave him his license back in 2017. The next year, he drove drunk + killed a man on Xmas Eve.
April 14, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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evidentmedia.org
April 9, 2025 at 11:26 PM