ICE arrested her selling tamales at Lowes. Then she suffered a heart attack. 'I told them: I can't breathe'

The 54-year-old woman was splayed on the sidewalk with her shirt half-raised, unconscious. Nearby, federal immigration agents stood guard as people screamed at them.

Arturo Hermosillo, a U.S. citizen, was in his work van, recording it all when an agent ordered him to back up to make room for an ambulance that was en route for the woman.

As he was reversing, he said, another agent started banging on his window and side view mirror, pushing it in. He couldn’t see behind him and felt a bump.

Hermosillo opened his door to tell the agents he couldn’t move. But not long after, they dragged him out of his van.

“I told them I didn’t do anything illegal,” he said.

Hermosillo was arrested and sent to the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown L.A. The woman, who later said she had fainted while an agent bear-hugged her to the point she struggled to breathe, underwent heart surgery at a Providence Holy Cross Medical Center. A doctor told her she had suffered a heart attack.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-07-14/in-pacoima-an-immigration-sweep-and-its-aftermath