Masked ICE Raids at California Churches Involved Threatening a Pastor

Masked alleged ICE agents raided near two Downey, California churches and threatened a pastor after refusing to leave church property.

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Pastor Alfredo Lopez of Downey Memorial Christian Church confronted ICE agents asking for their information after seeing a man outside his church’s parking lot being surrounded by immigration officers.

Not only did the agents refuse to give their identity and refuse to leave the church parking lot, but they threatened the pastor while “pointing weapons at the clergy.”

"When we said that we don’t want this in our property, this gentleman just shouted again, 'whole country is their property,'" Lopez is quoted as saying by NBC4 Los Angeles. "When someone tells that to you with a weapon in their hands and in their body, that was a very clear message. And as a man of faith, that is not allowed and that is not correct and that stands against everything that our country stands for."

A post on Instagram by UdB, an organization that defends Mexican and Latin American communities, that claimed to be of this incident is disturbing, as …