Members of Los Angeles' AAPI community came out in solidarity with the Latino community in Little Tokyo on Thursday, demanding an end to the ICE raids.
The surge in immigration raids across Southern California has spurred the area's Asian American Pacific Islander community to declare solidarity with the Latino community and denounce the raids.
False evacuation alerts went out to millions of people during the Los Angeles wildfires earlier this year. However, people who speak a language other than English and Spanish may not have understood what was happening.
AAPI Equity Alliance community leader joins the new 13-member Governance Reform Task Force that will promote better transparency, accountability, and public engagement in county government.
As wildfires burned in January, wireless emergency alerts provided critical information. But for many in immigrant communities, language barriers meant they never got the message.
