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A 20-year-old Walmart employee, Adrian Martinez, was returning from break on Tuesday when he saw Border Patrol agents taking a worker cleaning the shopping center parking lot in Pico Rivera.

“Once again, a false narrative is and was being pushed out on the arrest of a U.S. citizen in Pico Rivera, CA,” he posted on X. “Don’t take our word for it,” he said linking to Essayli’s post.

On Tuesday night, dozens, including Martinez’s friends, gathered in Pico Rivera to protest the immigration actions.

Pico Rivera City Manager Steve Carmona said in a statement Tuesday: “We are increasingly concerned about the nature and tone of these recent actions. Reports of heightened enforcement tactics, warrantless stops, and operations that appear to target specific communities raise serious concerns about proportionality, fairness, and due process.”

Once he realized I wanted to discuss his own political travails as much as of his clients, Robles said the better setting for our chat would’ve been the Albert Robles Center, a water treatment center in Pico Rivera that opened in 2019.