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Community rallies around LA teen detained by Ice while walking dog

Days after his 18th birthday, Benjamin Marcelo Guerrero-Cruz arrested in Van Nuys in what family call kidnapping ...
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Community members to demand release of LAUSD student in federal custody for nearly 2 weeks

LAUSD teachers and community members will come together to demand the release of a high school senior who has spent nearly two weeks in federal custody after he was detained by federal agents in Van ...

High Schooler Detained by ICE Couldn't Shower for a Week, Teacher Says

Lizette Becerra, who works within the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), visited Benjamin Marcelo Guerrero-Cruz, 18 ...

LAUSD teachers, students, rally goers demand release of high school senior from immigration detention

Dozens of demonstrators stood at the steps of LAUSD headquarters Tuesday evening to rally for the release of the teenager, ...
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Rally planned for Reseda student detained by ICE

Days before students at the Los Angeles Unified School District went back to school last week, a student was taken into ICE ...

L.A. student seized by immigration agents alleges they bragged of $1,500 arrest payment

A detained Reseda High student tells visiting teacher that the men who seized him bragged to each other that, by detaining ...
Opinion

Letters to the Editor: A high school student walking his dog is hardly 'the worst of the worst'

Cruz, who had overstayed his visa — hardly fitting Trump's arrest profile,' writes an L.A. Times reader. 'Overstaying a visa is not a criminal offense, it is a civil violation.' ...