Late-night noise latest tactic used in LA immigration protests: 'No sleep for ICE'
Source: USA Today
Updated June 30, 2025, 11:13 a.m. ET
The clanging of pots and pans. The steady thud of beating drums. The honking of passing cars with waving flags sticking out of the window. Bands playing traditional Mexican songs. Speakers shouting into megaphones. Chants coming from dozens of people. All unfolding into the middle of the night outside the Home2 Suites by Hilton in Montebello, California, in late June.
The goal of this latest protest? Make as much noise as possible to try and keep U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers from sleeping and force them elsewhere. “They were just making noise, playing music, and some people were dancing,” said Verita Topete, a leader of the immigration committee with Centro CSO, who took part in the protest. “A lot of people were holding signs saying, ‘ICE is not welcome here.’”
She said she arrived by 8:30 p.m. on June 20, and before she knew it, a crowd began to show up on the sidewalk outside the hotel. By 10 p.m., dozens more protesters joined the group, and they didn’t disperse until 3 a.m. Topete said that the next day, they returned with enough people to take over the two-lane street to block people from going into the front of the hotel.
The protests were part of a nightly “No Sleep for ICE” campaign in and around Los Angeles County, where protesters gather outside the hotels where ICE agents are staying and make noise to put pressure on the hotel staff to kick ICE out and prevent agents from sleeping.
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