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This cross denomination work is inspiring.

“We started out right after the election doing a whole lot of 'know your rights' training, training with congregations on sanctuary, rapid response training," says Jennifer Gutierrez, executive director of the advocacy group Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice. "That's still ongoing."

Gutierrez says things have also evolved since early June, when immigration agents began detaining more and more people in the region.

"We've been spending a lot of time in the streets," she says. "A number of rabbis or other clergy in their collars are out at actions trying to be a peaceful presence, but also just trying to show the community that we stand with them."

Her group also attends court hearings and holds a weekly vigil at the federal building in downtown L.A..

This past week, concerns over immigration arrests became so acute in neighboring San Bernardino County that the Catholic bishop of that diocese gave a special dispensation from attending mass to anyone too afraid to go to church because they feared being detained.