She sat hunched on a Grand Park bench, away from the protest. Noemi Ciau had not heard from her husband, Jesus Cruz, in more than 24 hours. Cruz had been arrested on June 8 at a Westchester car wash near Los Angeles airport, where he had worked for 10 years. She still had not told their youngest child, the last of their four. The sign someone handed the mother read that ICE, the immigration police, was not welcome in Los Angeles, a city of nearly four million people, half of whom are Latino, and that "no human being is illegal." She held the sign, upside down, mechanically, her head bowed. "I just want to know where they took him," she said.

Cruz, 51, had lived in Los Angeles for 30 years. It was about 3 pm on Sunday when an unmarked vehicle dropped off immigration agents at the car wash. Seven employees were taken away. Ciau knew that President Donald Trump's administration was targeting undocumented migrants. She had never truly feared for her husband, despite his lack of documents. She thought the police "were after criminals."

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