Tucked inside the Port of Los Angeles, an industrial island has become an unexpected flashpoint in the federal immigration crackdown. Terminal Island is best known for housing shipyards, warehouses ...

Community groups and Terminal Islanders — descendants of the Japanese American community that once thrived there — say ICE is using the area for staging.

The island was once home to 3,000 first- and second-generation Japanese Americans before many were taken to internment camps during World War II.

It was February 25, 1942, two and a half months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, and the U.S. Navy had given the island’s ...

Community groups and Terminal Islanders — descendants of the Japanese American community that once thrived there — say ICE is using the area for staging.