Immigration arrests in Los Angeles have been main news and the issue of legal disputes during the last weeks, but Angelen watching the drama takes place on television and in their communities you can confuse about who is exactly putting the wives and transporting them.
After all, some of the federal agents involved in the raids are found in unmarked vehicles, without visible badges, with street clothes and covering their faces. Are agents of the National Security Department, immigration officers and customs compliance with the United States or national security investigations officials? What is the difference?
All these federal agencies are branches of the Department of National Security, which was created to combat terrorism in the United States following the terrorist attacks of September 11.
Their duties include responding to natural disasters, terrorism and national security threats, enforcing commercial laws (reviewing the goods that enter and leave the USA.), In addition to administering the flow of people and products in the US borders. Three branches of national security carry out the application of these missions: the application of immigration and customs of the United States, national security research and customs and border protection of the United States.
Federal agents were recently seen without identifying clothes or badges, facial coatings with guns at the Dodger Stadium entrance doors on Thursday.
When the protesters learned of the presence of the officials and demonstrated outside the stadium, they had signs that said “ice outside the angels”
But the officials outside the stadium were actually customs agents and border protection of the United States who “were in the parking lot of the stadium very briefly, not related to any operation or application,” said the agency.
Confused?
The form of immigration officials to identify themselves when performing operations that is to say verbally that they are ICE or National Security agents, National Security officials said to The Times in a statement. The Federal Agency also said that immigration agents use vests that say “Ice/Ero” or “National Security” in them, and the name of their respective department is on one or both sides of their vehicles.
“When our heroic law agents carry out operations, they clearly identify as the application of the law while using masks to protect themselves from being attacked by highly sophisticated gangs as a train of Aragua and MS-13, criminal rings, murderers and rapists,” said Tricia McLaughlin, head security secretary of the head.
So what immigration officials are in Los Angeles and what is their purpose here?
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Have the Immigration and Customs Compliance officials of the United States. In Los Angeles? At the beginning of the month, the US compliance and compliance officials raided a fashion warehouse in the center of Los Angeles and arrested more than 40 immigrant workers, generating protests against immigration throughout the county.
What is ICE's mission? ICE, together with the agency's application and removal operations officials, identify, arrest, stop and eliminate immigrants without authorization in the United States, according to the Federal Agency's website.
Ero agents point to public security threats, according to the website, such as undocumented immigrants convicted, members of the gangs and those who “illegally restart the country after being eliminated and immigration fugitives ordered by federal immigration judges.”
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Have National Security Investigations officials in Los Angeles been? Two months before immigration officials began aggressive raids in Los Angeles, National Security Investigations officers participated in two separate arrests involving suspicious people of being in the country without authorization.
In May, HSI officials raided a nightclub and arrested 36 Chinese and Taiwanese people there. The club's location was not revealed.
The officials also participated in arresting 12 Mexican citizens, suspected of being illegally in the United States after traveling in a small boat from Mexico to Long Beach.
What is HSI's mission? HSI is an agency within the National Security Department and a branch within the application of immigration and customs. National Security investigations focus on investigating the crime “on a global scale, at home, abroad and online,” according to the National Security website.
This department conducts federal criminal investigations on the illegal movement of people, goods, money, drugs, weapons and exports of illegal technology and crimes of intellectual property inside and outside the United States.
Officials also investigate crimes such as child exploitation, human trafficking, financial fraud and scams.
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8:41 am June 22, 2025An earlier version of this article incorrectly called the US Customs and Border Protection agency. The US Customs and Borders patrol. UU. And incorrectly described some of the duties of the CBP and the border patrol of the United States.
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Have customs and edge of the United States Protection Has officials have been in Los Angeles? On Thursday, McLaughlin confirmed that CBP officials “arrested 30 illegal foreigners in Hollywood, California, and 9 illegal foreigners in San Fernando and Pacoima.”
In Hollywood, officers raided the parking lot of a deposit where workers and food vendors worked.
What is the CBP mission? Customs and border protection agents of the US are typically parked in the entrance ports, such as airports or terrestrial border crossings. Separately, the US border patrol agents focus on illegal border crossings between entry ports.
The border patrol maintains the traffic control points along the roads that lead from the border areas, carrying out municipal patrols, transport controls and non -slip operations, according to their website.
The border patrol also monitors international borders and coasts in areas of the agency's jurisdiction to intercept the illegal entry and smuggling of unauthorized people in the United States.
Border patrol officials carry out traffic controls on the main roads that move away from the border to detect and stop the entry of unauthorized people in the United States and illegal narcotics.
There are two other federal agencies in the streets:
National guard
The officials promised to send at least 2,000 national guard troops to Los Angeles. Until now, they have mainly protected federal buildings.
It is not clear how many are now on the ground.
The 9th Court of Appeals of the United States Circuit decided on Thursday to leave troops in Los Angeles in the hands of the Trump administration, while California objections are litigated in a federal court.
California officials argued that the National Guard was not necessary.
American Marines
The federal government has also deployed some American marines in Los Angeles.
The United States North Command, which supervises the headquarters in the United States, said the Marines will work with the National Guard troops under “Task Force 51”, the military designation of the Los Angeles forces. The Marines, like the guard, they said, “have been trained in a decalado, crowd control and rules for the use of force.”
The general of the Air Force, Gregory Guillot, told The Times earlier this month that the Marines in Los Angeles were limited in their authority, deployed only to defend federal property and federal staff. They have no arrest power, he said.
Local officials have also opposed Marines in Los Angeles
