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for papers. Of these 91 incidents, 23 led to arrests; three of the arrestees were found to be illegal immigrants. The other 20 arrestees were a mix of U.S. citizens and legal immigrants, and were eventually released. Romero writes that "all were of
Mexican ancestry or Latino" and that there is no record of any white person being detained in the raid.
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