"As soon as we started patrolling, we realized that the Port of LA played an important role in the raids... [CBP is using] a gated federal facility on Terminal Island that holds a penitentiary, a Coast Guard base and an old immigration processing center..."
https://lapublicpress.org/2025/07/what-i-learned-patrolling-for-ice-in-terminal-island/

#TerminalIsland #ICE #PortOfLA #CBP #LosAngeles #port

"Nestled right in the heart of the nation’s busiest port, where stuff was shipped in from all over the world, was the force tasked with shipping people from all over the world out.

It was there that we were headed, call sign “TI”—Terminal Island.

This was the local ICE HQ"
https://slate.com/business/2025/10/donald-trump-immigration-ice-raids-arrests-la.html

#TerminalIsland #LosAngeles #ICE #uspol #port

"Nestled right in the heart of the nation’s busiest port, where stuff was shipped in from all over the world, was the force tasked with shipping people from all over the world out.

It was there that we were headed, call sign “TI”—Terminal Island.

This was the local ICE HQ"
https://slate.com/business/2025/10/donald-trump-immigration-ice-raids-arrests-la.html

#TerminalIsland #LosAngeles #ICE #uspol #port

Reading over a 1985 dissertation by an older Japanese-American person who completed it as a passion project in his early 60s, about his family's and community's experience of maintaining a community after being expelled from where they lives in Terminal Island and incarcerated in Manzanar and it's just so 😭 but also really impressive and touching

#TerminalIsland

"Troops, with jeeps and machine guns, are shown guarding an entrance to Terminal Island on February 3, 1942, to prevent Japanese aliens from leaving the island. Nearly 400 Japanese were seized in the roundup"

(Los Angeles Public Library Herald Examiner Collection, discovered in an open browser tab)

#TerminalIsland #LosAngeles #uspol #immigration

"Descendants of Terminal Island’s Japanese community see parallels between the second world war and ICE raids today"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/17/los-angeles-ice-raids-japan-terminal-islands

#EverydayMilitarism #LosAngeles #TerminalIsland #ICE