Three people were arrested in Duarte on Wednesday after blocking an intersection in a protest over local police agencies' collaboration with federal immigration officials.
The arrests were made after a heated a community meeting held by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department about a new Immigration and Customs Enforcement program in local jails.
The Sheriff's Department has been seeking public input about how it should cooperate with ICE's new Priority Enforcement Program, which asks jails to notify federal agents when inmates that it believes are in the county illegally are being released.
The issue has gained national attention in recent weeks after the July 1 shooting death of a woman in San Francisco, allegedly by an immigrant in the country illegally.