Federal agents involved in a supposedly widespread immigration crackdown in Los Angeles County were reportedly reluctant to show a warrant to a city traffic officer for a family member they believed to be an undocumented migrant.
The crackdown didn’t amount to much, according to sources who spoke to the Los Angeles Times — only 12 individuals were reportedly picked up and detained at the Metropolitan Detention Center in LA, despite federal officials requesting enough space to house 120.
Because the lockup typically only takes new inmates on weekends, additional staffing had to be called in over the weekend, meaning taxpayers were on the hook to pay for the extra staffing cost.
One of the individuals targeted in the alleged raid was the father-in-law of Flipe Espinoza, 56, who works as a traffic officer in LA. He was in the middle of a workout over the weekend when FBI agents arrived at his house and demanded he open his door.
