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The 15-mile route encompassed Koreatown, all the way down to the Metropolitan Detention Center, and then with stops along the way to some of the well-known spots where ICE raids have occurred. Finally, it finished at the historic Olvera Street.

Runners expressed a mix of outrage, heartache and defiance as they jogged in the hot sun for 15 miles through neighborhoods where raids have happened or that are important to immigrants, from streets lined with sidewalk vendors in Koreatown and MacArthur Park to Dodger Stadium, Chinatown, the Fashion District and the city’s historic core, a few blocks from the Metropolitan Detention Center where immigration detainees are housed.

Organizers call it a “non-violent journey of resistance through Los Angeles” and said it is part of a 30-day “Summer of Resistance” campaign designed to push for an end to ICE raids and deportations they say have “tore families apart.”

“We are here for [unauthorized immigrants],” said SEIU 721 Organizing Director Martin Manteca. “We stand with them and we will continue to fight for them.”

Upwards of 2,000 people have registered to participate in the run, which will include a stop at downtown’s Metropolitan Detention Center on Alameda Street, which has been the site of multiple clashes between people protesting immigration-related arrests and law enforcement officers.

The event was sponsored by the group 50501 SoCal in conjunction with SEIU Local 721, CARECEN, NDLON and the Community Power Collective.

The LA Tenants Union, SEIU 721, and the Coalition of Labor Union Employees held a press conference and rally Tuesday morning, urging city leaders to pass immediate protections for renters affected by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations.

The L.A. Tenants Union, SEIU 721 and the Coalition of Labor Union Employees joined forces for a press conference and rally on Olvera Street Tuesday morning.

SEIU 721 members and shop stewards, including Sandra Diaz (SEIU steward and executive board member) and Alex Onnam (library employee and shop steward), asked for health insurance for employees and wage increases they said were necessary to keep staff in Oxnard. “We respectfully urge you not to cut our wages, our benefits,” Sandra Diaz told the council. Representatives of Operating Engineers Local 501 pressed similar themes.

Union officials said in a statement that the proposal “locks in historic cash bonuses, Cost of Living adjustments, increases to our annual healthcare contributions, and beats back the county’s efforts to include language allowing management to unilaterally reduce our raises in the future.”