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Yahoo
3 days ago
- Sport
- Yahoo
High school flag football: Friday and Saturday results
HIGH SCHOOL FLAG FOOTBALL FRIDAY'S RESULTS CITY SECTION Huntington Park 20, Kennedy 7 Sotomayor 21, New Designs University Park 0 Sotomayor 8, New Designs University Park 7 Wilson 37, Huntington Park 6 Wilson 38, Kennedy 0 SOUTHERN SECTION Aliso Niguel 13, Long Beach Poly 6 Classical Academy 53, Mission Viejo 0 Dos Pueblos 12, Aliso Niguel 0 Dos Pueblos 20, Fullerton 6 Esperanza 19, Woodbridge 6 Esperanza 19, Mira Costa 0 Fullerton 20, Long Beach Poly 6 Gahr 34, Cypress 13 Hacienda Heights Wilson 13, Villa Park 12 Lancaster 19, Saugus 12 Long Beach Cabrillo 33, Glenn 22 Long Beach Jordan 42, Mayfair 6 Mater Dei 25, Mission Viejo 0 Mission Hills 30, Santa Monica 0 Norwalk 13, Western 6 Orange Lutheran 32, Warren 6 Orange Lutheran 12, Western Christian 0 Sage Hill 15, Garden Grove Pacifica 0 Segerstrom 33, Garden Grove Santiago 0 St. Anthony 12, St. Paul 7 Vasquez 33, PACS 0 Villa Park 12, Hacienda Heights Wilson 13 Western Christian 20, Warren 6 INTERSECTIONAL LA Marshall 35, Alemany 6 Mission Hills 30, Santa Monica 0 Vincent Memorial 28, Mira Costa 6 Vincent Memorial 21, Woodbridge 19 SATURDAY'S RESULTS SOUTHERN SECTION Agoura 20, Ayala 6 Agoura 48, Oxnard Pacifica 7 Anaheim Canyon 12, Upland 0 Anaheim Canyon 25, Upland 6 Ayala 39, Oxnard Pacifica 6 Beaumont 51, Shadow Hills 16 Bishop Amat 20, Hart 6 Bonita 25, West Covina 12 Bonita 45, San Gabriel 0 Bonita 48, Sierra Vista 0 Buena Park 14, Nogales 7 California 32, Montebello 0 Camarillo 26, Sherman Oaks Notre Dame 8 Camarillo 33, Westlake 22 Canyon Springs 19, Yucaipa 7 Chaparral 33, Ontario Christian 8 Chino 13, Colton 0 Citrus Valley 23, Los Osos 19 Corona Santiago 6, El Dorado 0 Esperanza 20, Aliso Niguel 14 Fillmore 24, Calabasas 7 Fullerton 7, Mission Viejo 6 Keppel 12, Baldwin Park 12 La Sierra 23, California Military Institute 6 Los Osos 50, Victor Valley 2 Mater Dei 20, Esperanza 19 Mission Viejo 14, Long Beach Poly 13 Newbury Park 44, Highland 16 Norco 18, Murrieta Valley 0 Orange Lutheran 26, Aliso Niguel 0 Oxnard 52, Thousand Oaks 6 Oxnard 54, St. Bonaventure 0 Rio Mesa 28, Fillmore 0 Rio Mesa 46, Calabasas 0 Riverside Poly 21, Canyon Springs 0 Riverside Poly 24, Yucaipa 7 San Marcos 52, Highland 6 San Marcos 33, Newbury Park 12 Santa Margarita 13, San Marcos 0 Santa Margarita 44, Newbury Park 12 Sierra Vista 25, San Gabriel 15 Temescal Canyon 2, Norco 0 Temecula Prep 20, Chaparral 12 Temecula Prep 32, Temecula Valley 0 Temple City 28, Arroyo 6 Thousand Oaks 19, St. Bonaventure 14 Upland 19, South Hills 13 Upland 26, Corona Santiago 19 Warren 13, Mira Costa 6 Warren 12, Fullerton 7 Westlake 28, Camarillo 6 Woodbridge 13, Mission Viejo 0 Woodbridge 20, Warren 0 INTERSECTIONAL Castaic 7, San Fernando 0 Bonita Vista 18, Downey 2 North County San Marcos 27, Santa Monica 0 Valencia 26, Kennedy 12 Sign up for the L.A. Times SoCal high school sports newsletter to get scores, stories and a behind-the-scenes look at what makes prep sports so popular. This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
CBS News
12-08-2025
- Politics
- CBS News
Fear of immigration raids turns California community into ghost town
Huntington Park, California, a working-class community of more than 50,000 people, has recently felt like it has a bullseye on its back because of ramped-up raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The town is 95.6% Latino, and as many as 45% of the residents are undocumented, according to the city. City Council member Jonathan Sanabria, who grew up in Huntington Park, says the local community is scared. "We are a target for them because we know that they are stereotyping and they're racially profiling us. And they're targeting folks that look like me," he said. Sanabria took a CBS News crew to Pacific Boulevard, the city's main commercial thoroughfare. The once-vibrant city center was eerily quiet. "I remember Pacific Boulevard was always packed, but since the raids have been going on, it's a ghost town," said longtime resident Jose Lomeli. "I don't even know how these places are surviving." Some business owners are trying to provide a sense of safety to bring customers back to their stores. "There's people inside conducting business, but they now have their doors locked. They're saying, 'Hey, knock, let us know that you're here so we can open the door, provide the service for you,'" Sanabria said of one store. ICE agents would need a warrant to enter. "We see stores that are open, but they remain with the gates locked. So this is another way of the stores protecting themselves and their customers from unwanted interactions with ICE," Sanabria said. A woman who runs a bridal shop, which is keeping its doors locked, told CBS News that business was "very bad." "The reality is that folks are scared of coming in. That folks are scared of being taken," Sanabria said. "Some folks that are coming, they do feel that with it being locked, that the business owner is doing what they can to protect them." Asked what impact this was having on the economy, Sanabria said, "It's very obvious that our sales tax numbers are gonna be a lot lower than they were, which means it's gonna be less money to provide services for our community." According to the latest CBS News poll, fewer people overall approve of the Trump administration's deportation program, compared to earlier this year. But approval among Republicans remains high. Many of them say immigrants who have entered the country illegally should be deported. Sanabria disagrees. "When we look at a lot of different sectors of our economy, the reason we are able to keep it (prices) at a lower rate is because of the undocumented," he said. "I think the community, seeing that we are behind them, that's making them feel safer," Sanabria added.
Yahoo
17-07-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
California mayor on Trump's immigration raids: ‘It is a campaign of domestic terror'
As a United States marine, Arturo Flores served in Afghanistan and Iraq, where he worked as a military police officer and trained dogs to find roadside bombs. It's his experience in the military that has made what he's seen on the streets of southern California in recent weeks all the more disturbing to him, Flores said. Flores is the mayor of Huntington Park, in south LA county. Like in other parts of LA, many Huntington residents have been terrified amid reports of masked federal agents detaining immigrants, or those that look like immigrants, on the street, in parking lots, at swap meets or large stores and soldiers deployed into the city against the wishes of local officials and the governor. 'It is a campaign of domestic terror that is being imposed on our residents on a daily basis,' Flores said. 'It is a level of psychological warfare that I've only seen in theaters of war. It's terrifying seeing it being displayed here in my city.' A third of all LA residents were born outside of the United States, and nearly half of the region's residents are Latino. An estimated 1 million of LA county's 10 million residents are undocumented. About 97% of residents in Huntington Park are Latino, and the city has been the site of numerous raids by US Immigration and Custom Enforcement (Ice) in recent weeks. Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, attended an operation in the city on 12 June. The Trump administration's crackdown has sent fear through immigrant and Latino communities in the city, for citizens and non-citizens alike, Flores said. Video captured of federal operations in the region this week showed apparent immigration agents arresting a US citizen while her family cried for help nearby, and officers surrounding a street vendor as she clung to a tree. In Huntington Park, Flores said, federal officers are not communicating with local agencies and driving through neighborhoods at high speed, jumping curbs and chasing people. Residents report people seemingly being targeted based on their skin color or perceived ethnicity, he said. 'Any claims that individuals have been 'targeted' by law enforcement because of their skin color are disgusting and categorically false,' the DHS assistant secretary Tricia McLaughlin said. 'These types of smears are designed to demonize and villainize our brave Ice law enforcement.' McLaughlin also said 'this kind of garbage has led to a 500% increase in the assaults on Ice officers', though she did not explain the underlying data or what period the rise was documented in. 'DHS enforcement operations are highly targeted, and officers do their due diligence,' she said. 'We know who we are targeting ahead of time. If and when we do encounter individuals subject to arrest, our law enforcement is trained to ask a series of well-determined questions to determine status and removability.' The operations have had a dramatic impact on the community. Businesses have closed, Flores said, as people who would normally be out shopping stay indoors. Only four families came to a recent city-organized movie night in the park. 'It's a very real fear of being physically assaulted when you're just walking on the street, trying to grocery shop or trying to pick up your granddaughter,' Flores said. Flores has said the way federal officials are conducting operations, with agents in masks and unmarked vehicles, is dangerous. This week, Huntington Park police arrested someone they believed was impersonating a federal agent. He has been outspoken about his opposition to the operations in the city, and to the deployment of national guard soldiers and marines to Los Angeles in recent weeks. During a press conference with LA area mayors ahead of the arrival of soldiers in the city earlier this month, Flores urged servicemembers to defend the constitution. 'When we lifted our hands and we swore the oath to defend the constitution and to defend the country, that oath was to the American people,' he said at the time. 'It was not to a dictator. It was not to a tyrant. It was not to a president. It was to the American people.' The events that have unfolded in the area in recent weeks have been surreal, he said. 'You never imagine seeing this domestically in areas and streets that you grew up on … but we're seeing as some of these streets are being transformed into battlegrounds.' Huntington Park is having conversations about joining a class-action lawsuit with other cities against the Trump administration, Flores said, and is looking to start emergency funds for constitutional rights education, legal aid and emergency food delivery. As operations continue to unfold, he is urging residents to stay united. 'It is very dangerous time,' he said. '[But] there's gonna come a time where Donald Trump will not be president and the individuals that were perpetrating these injustices are going to be held accountable.'
Fox News
02-07-2025
- Politics
- Fox News
Cities near LA abandon July 4th celebrations as Trump's immigration crackdown takes hold
Los Angeles and several surrounding cities are canceling — or postponing — Fourth of July celebrations in response to increased activity by federal immigration officials in the area. The County of Los Angeles Department of Parks and Recreation postponed a summer movie and concert series, while canceling this year's East Los Angeles Rock'n 4th of July celebration "out of caution and in response to recent ICE enforcement activity." One of the city's biggest Fourth of July events that drew thousands in 2024, the Gloria Molina Grand Park Summer Block Party, has been indefinitely postponed due to "the ongoing circumstances impacting the region." Other communities surrounding Los Angeles also reportedly decided to cancel their Fourth of July events in light of the ongoing federal immigration enforcement in the area, including the cities of Bell Gardens, Boyle Heights, Cudahy, Huntington Park, Whittier and the town of El Sereno. In Huntington Park, the cancellation goes beyond just the Fourth of July holiday and includes a 30-day pause on "certain public summer events," according to a statement released by the city. "Reports of unmarked vehicles and unidentified federal agents have created widespread anxiety, particularly among immigrant and mixed-status families," according to the Huntington Park statement. "Many residents have expressed fear and uncertainty, leading them to remain indoors, refrain from work, and withdraw from daily public life. Our priority is and will continue to be the safety and peace of mind of our community." Officials from these communities halting their Independence Day events have been outspoken against the Trump administration's decision to ramp up federal immigration enforcement. Huntington Park Mayor Arturo Flores has described the increased prevalence of ICE raids in and around Los Angeles as a "campaign of domestic terror" and "psychological warfare that I've only seen in theaters of war," according to The Guardian. Meanwhile, the vice mayor of the City of Cudahy allegedly called on gang leaders in a now-deleted TikTok post to defend their territory from ICE. A report Monday by The New York Times found that, since June 6, "agents from several federal agencies have arrested about 2,000 immigrants in the Los Angeles region," according to documents obtained by the outlet, which added that the arrests have "been one of the reasons so many are on edge." This week, the Pentagon released 150 California National Guard troops from their federal security mission in Los Angeles to help fight wildfires.
CBS News
01-07-2025
- Politics
- CBS News
Huntington Park postpones Fourth of July celebration amid increased immigration operations
Fear and frustration over immigration raids across Southern California are leading to the cancellation or delay of Independence Day celebrations in several cities across the region. Security video shows federal agents blasting through the front door of a house in Huntington Park. Customs and Border Protection says that last Friday, it was looking for a man wanted for obstructing federal agents. On a different occasion, home security footage of several federal agents with guns drawn wearing tactical and military-style gear inside another Huntington Park home. At the time, agents said they were looking for a man they claimed was in the country illegally. "This is not okay. What's happening in our communities is shameful," said Huntington Park Mayor Arturo Flores. "There is no honor here whatsoever." Seeing federal agents conducting immigration raids across the city for weeks now is why Flores says the city has to put a stop to community events for at least the next month. "Public safety comes first and foremost before anything. So, when that comes into question, it's an easy decision to make, "he said. "We're going to take every step and measure to protect our community." Flores' decision means that a Fourth of July celebration at Salt Lake Park has been postponed indefinitely. "It's sad on one point because we want all the beautiful things this world has to offer, but we have to deal with what's going on right now, and that is our safety," said Nyssa Thies, a Huntington Park neighbor. Huntington Park is not alone; events have been canceled or delayed in Bell Gardens, Cudahy, Boyle Heights, El Sereno, Lincoln Heights, Whittier and downtown Los Angeles. "All communities that have Latinos are suffering a lot," said Jacqueline Lacayo, a Huntington Park neighbor. "I think everyone should come together to support them." In Huntington Park, they actually postponed their event indefinitely because if they canceled it outright, they could lose thousands of dollars because of the deposit for their drone show. There will also be a stop to "Movies in the park" outside of City Hall, for at least part of the summer. It's an event that usually draws out hundreds of neighbors, but the last one only had four families, the mayor says. "To see four families show up and one of them pose the question, are we safe here. It really put in perspective the reality that's being lived," Flores said. "You have to understand, our community – even the ones that are U.S. citizens, U.S.-born – they're also in fear." Lacayo says this is a time when the country should be celebrating its independence, not fearful of federal agents raiding homes or driving down their streets in armored vehicles. "It's Fourth of July, the home of the free... where is it?" Lacayo said. A poignant question heading into Independence Day.
