Periodically, the Latinx Files will feature guest writers. Filling in this week are De Los reporters Carlos De Loera and Andrea Flores.

Last week, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers tried to execute two raids in San Diego. San Diego fought back.

It all started on May 30 when heavily armed ICE agents showed up at the Italian eateries Buona Forchetta and Enoteca Buona Forchetta in the South Park neighborhood of the SoCal border city, as The Times’ Ruben Vives reported .

A spokesperson for Homeland Security Investigations, a branch within ICE, said the agents were executing search warrants related to alleged “violations of hiring and harboring illegal aliens and false statements.”

But as ICE members were making arrests, San Diego community members came out to defend those targ

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