A bell rang as Christian Tonatiuh González Jiménez waved a large Mexican flag on the balcony of California’s Capitol building.

“Viva México! Viva México!” the consul general of Mexico in Sacramento yelled several times, reenacting the cry that ignited the fight for Mexico’s independence in 1810.

Unlike previous years, the ceremony commemorating Mexican Independence Day in the capital of the Golden State was brief, and organizers opted to forgo a festival that previously drew dozens of vendors and large crowds.

The celebration in Sacramento was among several honoring Mexican Independence Day and Hispanic Heritage Month that took place as planned or in scaled-down versions across the United States even as fears of immigration raids loom large in the community.

“It’s smaller but still p

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