After an immigration arrest in Culver City, cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz created a painting that’s gone viral — and emerged as a flashpoint in the debate over immigration enforcement.

A day after federal officers and National Guard troops descended on MacArthur Park in Los Angeles, immigrant residents of the surrounding neighborhood were coming to grips with the operation that local officials said seemed designed to sow fear.

Community leaders suggested starting a $500,000 emergency relief fund for local businesses that are struggling to staff their stores and restaurants.

The raid resulted in little more than an empty park and increased tensions between the federal government and Los Angeles’s mayor.

Bishop Alberto Rojas, who leads more than 1.5 million Catholics in Southern California, has formally excused parishioners from their weekly obligation to attend Mass following immigration

Perris Mayor Michael Vargas urged his residents to stay indoors and avoid going out unless necessary, as immigration operations continue.

Research shows worksite immigration raids can depress local economies as people stay home and stop spending money. So far, they aren't known to free up jobs for citizens.

U.S. military troops and federal immigration officers made a mighty but brief show of force Monday at MacArthur Park dubbed the “Ellis Island of the West Coast” as the community hub of a largely immigrant neighborhood in Los Angeles.