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Driving around in hopes of witnessing agents jumping out of trucks and detaining immigrants has become a grim pastime and form of protest for some Angelenos.

It was quiet, just folks walking home from work, but Garcia was among several people drawn there in hopes of bearing witness to one of the federal raids that have unfolded across Los Angeles County in recent days.

So off I went to the weeknight dance lessons at Rawhide, where bad dancers try to improve by dancing with other lousy dancers in hopes of becoming mediocre and then, perhaps if you really concentrate, a step up to adequate.

Advocacy groups had been sending lawyers to the immigration courts to offer advice to the families of detainees — most of whom were following a judge’s order in hopes of staying in the United States.

He drove from Bellflower, roughly 10 miles south of Huntington Park, in hopes of helping the “hardworking men” who were being targeted by immigration officials.