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LAPD once stopped Americans at California border

By Hailey Branson-Potts · Los Angeles Times · May 2026

LAPD once stopped Americans at California border

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"In an extraordinary episode in U.S. migration history, Los Angeles police stopped fellow Americans from crossing state lines into California."

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