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There are many misconceptions about immigrants in Los Angeles, but none more disorienting than the canard — so popular among Trump administration representatives — that those immigrants who arrived without papers somehow live apart from the rest of the city. The role of these immigrants in the local economy is widely misunderstood and deliberately misrepresented. Above: Closed lanes to the Culver City Express Hand Car Wash and Detail where an ICE raid occurred