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On Santee Street downtown, Jessica Flores cut onions at her food truck while waiting for customers.

“I was left without people, and I still have to pay my bills and rent,” Flores said.

“The president keeps talking about a foreign invasion,” Flores told me Thursday.

This will strike the literal-minded as illogical, but I think Huntington Park Mayor Arturo Flores, a Marine veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, had a righteous point when he declared at a news conference with Southern California mayors that immigrants being rounded up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in communities like his “are Americans, whether they have a document or they don’t.”

Alejandra Flores attended a protest in front of Westin LAX Friday with her daughter and her mother, who had recently become a U.S. citizen.