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Long Beach’s immigration rights organization and rapid response network ÓRALE (Organizing Rooted in Abolition, Liberation & Empowerment) is once again asking the City to increase funding and protections for Long Beach’s immigrant population amidst raids in Los Angeles and surrounding cities.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) performed immigration raids in the fashion district of downtown Los Angeles, and at a Home Depot in the Westlake District Friday morning. At least 40 people were detained by federal agents, including local labor union president David Huerta, who as of Saturday evening has not been released.

Huerta was arrested for obstructing access from federal agents, U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli told KTLA5.

Over 1,000 Los Angeles residents responded with protests on Friday, which are still ongoing as of 5 p.m. Saturday. On Saturday morning, ICE agents moved into surrounding cities, including Paramount. As of 5 p.m. on Saturday, Paramount residents are still protesting ICE’s presence in front of the Home Depot on Alondra Boulevard in Paramount.

Mayor Rex Richardson posted his response to the Los Angeles raids on social media on Friday evening, writing, “Today, we saw the news that ICE conducted widespread raids across Los Angeles County at court appointments, workplaces, and on the streets. While no activity has yet been reported in Long Beach, this operation is deeply troubling. Officers arrive without warning while masked and without identification, leaving just as quickly. These raids instill fear in residents, communities, and profoundly damage public trust. We are in contact with local immigrant rights organizations and stand ready to support our immigrant communities.”

View the mayor’s full statement here.

ÓRALE, which works to provide immigrants with legal aid and help families in detention centers, have been asking Long Beach for longterm, structural funds for years. The organization’s Justice Fund, which helps to pay for immigrant’s legal services while they fight deportation, is currently funded through one-time dollars.

The Justice Fund was created in 2019, and expanded last year with a $1.4 million allocation. ÓRALE has been asking the City to invest another $2.2 million for legal support for Long Beach’s immigrant population.

The organization posted a message on its social media channels on Friday night, again urging the City to take action, saying, “Mayor Richardson’s response to today’s ICE raids shows he understands the fear ICE is purposely instilling in immigrant communities. But Long Beach needs more than awareness. We need ACTION … The raids happened in LA today. They could happen in Long Beach tomorrow. Every day that goes by, the need grows more urgent.”

Roughly 1/4 of Long Beach residents, or around 111,000 people, are immigrants, according to the U.S. Census. Around 54,000 of these people are undocumented, according to a March 2025 study from the Vera Institute of Justice. That same study estimates that Long Beach immigrants make up 28% of the city’s labor force, and roughly 7,000 immigrants are entrepreneurs in Long Beach.

The Filipino Migrant Center, which serves Filipino immigrants in Long Beach and is part of the Justice Fund Coalition, also posted a message on social media calling for the City to further invest in the Justice Fund.

Along with the Justice Fund, ÓRALE has also enlisted Long Beach residents who are U.S. citizens for its rapid response network. These people respond to reports of ICE in the city to make sure people are aware of their rights.

ÓRALE also has a hotline 562-245-9575 for residents to report possible ICE activity. Members of ÓRALE and rapid response volunteers then travel to the location reported to confirm or deny the activity.

“The question isn’t whether ICE will come to Long Beach. The question is: Will our city be ready to stand up for immigrant families when they do,” ÓRALE’s statement continued.

View ÓRALE’s full statement here.

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The schedule for the annual Moonlight On The Beach at Granada Beach has been released. Here's what to know.

LONG BEACH, CA — The ever-popular Moonlight On The Beach movie nights return to Long Beach starting in June, with six classic films showing on Tuesday nights.

Moonlight On The Beach attracts hundreds of people each year. While the event has experimented with showings in other parts of the city, such as parks, this year it will be held solely at Granada Beach. Here's the full schedule:

The Goonies — The classic story of friendship, mystery and adventure will kick off the Moonlight On The Beach event this year on June 17.

Dirty Dancing — This romantic drama featuring Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Gray is set for June 24.

10 Things I Hate About You — The romantic comedy based on Shakespeares's "The Taming Of The Shrew" will show on July 8.

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Ferris Bueller's Day Off — Twist and shout your way to Granada Beach on July 22 to see Ferris Bueller embark on his great adventure with his friends across Chicago.

Grease: The Sing-A-Long — Join the Pink Lady Sandys or the T-Birds in singing along to 1950s rock and roll tunes on Aug. 5.

Lilo & Stitch — The 2002 movie about family, healing and acceptance featuring the only and only experiment 626 will show on Aug. 12.

All movies begin at around sunset (8 to 8:30 p.m.). Anyone looking to attend can bring their own food, however, food trucks will be on site, along with kettle corn vendors.

LONG BEACH, CA — A plan to establish a water taxi between Long Beach and San Pedro in time for the 2028 Olympics is now one step closer to reality after a committee vote to explore the feasibility of the idea.

The Metro's Ad-Hoc Committee on the Olympic and Paralympic Games on Wednesday unanimously approved the decision to explore the water taxi proposal made by Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn in April. Hahn serves as the chair of the Metro Board of Directors and chair of Metro’s Ad-Hoc Committee.

Hanh's proposal came after Long Beach officials announced the city was selected to host 11 sporting events during the 2028 LA Olympics.

"If we are serious about people taking transit to every Olympic event, we need to get creative," Hahn said in a statement Wednesday. "The water taxi's time has come."

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The idea would be to offer an "innovative" public transportation system for San Pedro and surrounding communities to get to Long Beach without worrying about traffic congestion along city streets, freeways or the Vincent Thomas Bridge, according to Hahn.

"It would offer residents, workers and tourists an alternative to driving and parking at the Games venues that's not only reliable and affordable, but fun as well," Hahn said. "It's time to explore what it would take to get this idea off the ground and into the water.

The idea for a water taxi isn't new or out of the ordinary for the area.

Long Beach Transit currently has an AquaBus and AquaLink that serve as alternative transportation across the city's shoreline.

Before the construction of the Vincent Thomas Bridge, a ferry service between San Pedro and Terminal Island connected the two areas between 1941 and 1963, according to the Los Angeles Maritime Museum. The ferry was operated by private and municipal companies, providing transportation for workers, residents and commuters, Hahn said.

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A Long Beach woman announced her early retirement in February, after she had the surprise of a lifetime when she won a whopping $1 million with a lottery scratcher ticket.

Julie Bass, who was celebrating her 25th work anniversary with a friend, was playing some scratcher tickets and not finding much success.

"I had scratched my five-dollar ones, and I told her,' I'm not winning!' Bass told the California Lottery. "She says, 'Oh Miss Julie, you have two more back there.'"

She scratched one of her tickets, thinking that she won a free ticket. On second look she thought she won $1,000. She didn't realize how much she won until her friend's excitement.

Bass had purchased a Triple Red 777 scratcher from the Golden Moon convenience store on Anaheim Street in Long Beach, which wound up totaling $1 million.

The win changed the entire course of Bass' life. Instead of waiting two more years to retire, she decided to do so immediately.

"I started my job as a clerk, and now that I'm a manager, I felt my reward was my seven promotions," she told lottery officials. "But He showed me that day, 'No, I got something else for you.' And that was a million dollars."

Though she said she doesn't feel like she's a lucky person, she does believe she's "especially blessed"

She plans on purchasing a home near her only daughter, something she had already been planning on.

Dean Fioresi

Dean Fioresi is a web producer for CBS Los Angeles. He covers breaking news throughout Southern California. When he's not writing about local events, he enjoys focusing on sports and entertainment.

It has taken more than a year for current and former residents of the City of Long Beach in California to learn that some of their personally identifiable and protected health information was compromised in a cyberattack. Notifications have been sent to multiple U.S. states confirming that the information of 470,060 individuals was exposed and potentially stolen in the attack. That figure includes 258,191 individuals whose protected health information was compromised. No ransomware group is known to have claimed responsibility for the attack.

The cyberattack was detected on or around November 14, 2023, and the forensic investigation confirmed on March 18, 2024, that sensitive data had been accessed or acquired by the threat actor. It then took a further 13 months before notification letters were mailed to the affected individuals. City officials confirmed that notification letters started to be mailed on April 14, 2025.

City officials explained that most of the affected systems were restored and brought back online within a matter of weeks after the attack was detected, and while confirmation of unauthorized access to data was confirmed in March 2024, in an October 7, 2024, update, the city explained that third party cybersecurity professionals were still trying to determine the nature and scope of the data stolen in the attack. The city explained in the notice that complimentary credit monitoring and identity theft protection services would be offered to individuals whose Social Security numbers were involved. “This process of identifying specific individuals’ sensitive information is incredibly detailed, time-intensive, can be lengthy, and has been ongoing to date,” explained city officials in the October 2024 notice. “Progress is being made, and the process may be close to completion in the upcoming months.”

In the latest notification, city officials explained that between the attack and April 14, 2025, there have been no indications that any of the impacted information has been misused for the purpose of committing identity theft or fraud, and said the notification letters were being issued as required by law and out of an abundance of caution. Long Beach Mayor Rex Richardson said, “This has proven to be an unprecedented event for our organization, and we continue to take this investigation and its findings seriously.” The individual notifications confirm that credit monitoring and identity theft protection services are being provided for 12 months to individuals whose Social Security numbers were compromised.

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