Anti-ICE activists helped an illegal migrant escape ICE custody as he was being transferred to a detention center in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday, The Post has learned.
The British migrant was shackled as contract guards walked him and other detainees into the ICE detention center for processing. At one point a masked man helped the illegal migrant escape from custody when the guards weren’t looking, Homeland Security sources said.
The escape-artist detainee was then loaded into a waiting van with the help of other protesters.
Protesters block the garage entrance of the LA Federal Building as law enforcement officers fire pepper spray at them following multiple detentions by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, in downtown Los Angeles on June 6, 2025. REUTERS
A demonstrator kicks a canister of tear gas during a protest Saturday, June 14, 2025, in Los Angeles. AP“This is getting out of control,” one source fumed of the anti-ICE activists dominating the streets around the detention center.
A manhunt is now underway for the illegal immigrant, who has not been publicly identified, but is believed to have a rap sheet, sources said.
A spokesperson for ICE didn’t immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.
The detention center was the center point of anti-ICE riots that broke out in June, when mobs hurled concrete blocks at the feds and shut down major highways in an attempt to stop President Trump’s mass deportation raids.
Protesters confront law enforcement outside an ICE building in LA. Getty Images
A woman waves up to prisoners in the Metropolitan Detention Center in LA. DAVID SWANSON/EPA/ShutterstockThe violent demonstrations prompted President Trump to deploy 4,000 National Guard troops and 700 Marines to the City of Angels to quell the chaos.
California’s lefty Gov. Gavin Newsom subsequently sued the Trump administration over the deployment, arguing that they exceeded his authority and flouted the 10th Amendment by calling up the Guard under a federal law intended to address an “invasion” or “rebellion.”
But the feds have remained undeterred by Newsom and his sanctuary protections and are continuing to nab agitators. On Tuesday, the feds collared LA-based tattoo artist Matthew Munoz after he allegedly spit on a border agent, according to Fox11.
“There’s a lot of people here, in the so-called sanctuary of California, that maybe are used to softer on crime policies,” David Kim, assistant chief of Border Patrol’s El Centro Sector, said of the arrest.
“When you see us out there, you’re not going to be dealing with a soft on crime approach. You’re going to be dealing with the full consequences of your actions.”
