Deportation Arrest Highlights Tensions in Los Angeles on Immigration<br />Worried that rumors could spread that they had been stopped by immigration officials, Ricardo Mireles,<br />the executive director of the school, urged students to carry school identification at all times.<br />Local leaders in California and other parts of the country are increasingly criticizing federal immigration agents, saying their actions threaten to erode the trust between local law enforcement officials<br />and immigrants, whom they depend on to report crimes.<br />Officers abided by the agency’s sensitive locations policy, which generally restricts arrests in schools, and stopped him about half a mile from the school, not knowing<br />that one of the daughters remained in the car, the officials said.<br />That’s one of the reasons we called immediately." Pablo Alvarado, the executive director of the day labor organization,<br />said the involvement from local officials probably helped keep Mr. Avelica in the country for now.<br />Mr. Avelica’s case is the latest example of the growing tension building in Los Angeles between federal immigration enforcers and local officials.<br />Outraged local officials said that the tactics showed a new kind of aggressiveness from immigration agents.
