Pasadena immigrant advocate’s arrest sparks ire, as ICE presence in cities stirs nation

Local leaders and residents voiced outrage this week over the presence of federal immigration agents in Pasadena and Altadena, and the arrest of an immigrant labor advocate — who was on his way to an Eaton fire commemoration — which prompted accusations against local law enforcement of cooperating with federal officials.

Those accusations, denied by the city’s top elected official, come as the nation reels from the fatal shooting on Wednesday by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent of a 37-year-old Minneapolis woman...