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  "path": "/2026/04/20/caught-in-the-crackdown-as-arrests-at-anti-ice-protests-piled-up-prosecutions-crumbled/",
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  "textContent": "This story was originally published by ProPublica and Frontline. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. The National Guard soldiers in desert camo piled out of unmarked vans in East Los Angeles last June, cordoning off East Sixth Street, a residential street lined with single family houses, and blocking a nearby road leading to an elementary school. A squad of […]",
  "title": "Caught In The Crackdown: As Arrests At Anti-ICE Protests Piled Up, Prosecutions Crumbled"
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