More than five months after the nation’s first major federal immigration raid kicked off in Los Angeles, House Democrats from Southern California, led by Rep. Robert Garcia of Long Beach, gathered in downtown L.A. to hear about the impacts of the ongoing immigration enforcement actions, including from people who were personally detained or had loved ones detained.

Similar hearings have been, or will be, held by other congressional committees elsewhere in the country, to document and build a record of what happened, lawmakers said during the Monday, Nov. 24, hearing. • Rep. Robert Garcia holds a hearing to examine the unlawful detention of U.S. citizens and immigrants by federal immigration agents at the LA Metropolitan Water District on Monday, November 24, 2025. (Photo by David Crane,

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