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BY NAOMI CRAINE
LOS ANGELES—Federal immigration officials announced October 3 that they arrested more than 1,300 immigrant workers in raids here and in surrounding counties over the previous two weeks. Some 600 people have already been deported.
As the raids continue, some workers are organizing to defend each other. In the early morning of October 4, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents knocked on the door of an apartment complex manager in Reseda, asking where a tenant lived. When she realized they were from la migra, Angelita Pascacio began phoning residents, telling them not to open the door. Other neighbors did the same.

“They came through, but no one opened the door and in about 10 minutes they left,â€