“On the day in Las Vegas, it was really difficult to obtain fresh coconut, banana leaves, or some fruits and vegetables,” said Vavilla. “Whenever the holidays times, I remember, we would go and store the things that my mother could not get in the regular grocery store.”
Favella said as an adult, that he went to Broadacres at least once a month and was recently there on the night before the announcement of the closure.
Remember that he felt that something was wrong on Friday evening. Vavilla said that the crowds in recent weeks have been significantly thinner, especially after meeting the raid at Santa Fe Springs Swap.
“First of all, it was easy to find parking, and this is never the case,” Vavilla said. “Then when I entered, a quarter of the people who were usually there were usually. There was no live music. I knew something was far away.”
Ocampo said that his family was familiar with ice activity throughout the country, but the decision to close Broadacres is still arrested outside the guard.
No notice was made to the sellers, as it is claimed that employees go to Both on the morning of June 21 to inform people that the market will be closed on that day. The Broadacres Administration did not respond to the suspension requests.
“I received a text message from the family that morning at about 10 am, saying that Broadcress would close,” Ocampo said. “I thought the worst. I was thinking: Is there an ice raid that happens? What is happening?”
Obuso’s parents, who spoke on the condition of anonymity and did not want to publicly reveal immigration conditions for fear of revenge, said that the pictures from the California raid that were struck near the house.
The family has lived in the United States since 1992. Nevertheless, as well as concerns about discrimination and enforcement of aggressive immigration, their financial future is suspended in balance.
Ocampo, who was translating into Spanish his father, said large remains of his parents’ booth in Broadcires, where they for more than two decades sold peanuts, pumpkin seeds and many other dry goods. What started as a small platform of peanuts grown into multiple compartments at the swap meeting, where he presented nearly 50 elements.
