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Immigration Laws: Dispersal Order and Angeles

immigration laws: The agency says 88 per cent of those arrested are convicted criminals, according to Metro News. The raids triggered a protest late Thursday in downtown Los Angeles, where a Homeland Security van was blocked from entering the federal Metropolitan Detention Center. Agents also served 122 notices to businesses that they will be audited to determine whether they are employing people who are in the country illegally. Police were called and a dispersal order was given, but there were no arrests. 7 19 a.m. The Los Angeles Times reports that police were called and a dispersal order was issued, but no one was arrested. Stepped-up enforcement of immigration laws at Southern California businesses triggered a protest in downtown Los Angeles.A group of immigrant rights advocates chanting stop the deportations and other slogans blocked a Homeland Security van from entering the federal Metropolitan Detention Center late Thursday. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.