Members of the Community Self-Defense Coalition patrol neighborhood streets in an effort to alert people about ICE operations and inform them of their rights.

Given the Trump administration’s stated desire to ratchet up immigration enforcement and deportations, officials say it’s vital for business owners to prepare and know their rights.

Anyone can meet with an immigration expert, by phone or in person, at half a dozen Los Angeles Public Library locations from Wilmington to Pacoima, through a long-running, city-funded program called the New Americans Initiative.

ACLU attorneys filed a lawsuit Wednesday alleging the Border Patrol’s January raid in Kern County indiscriminately targeted Latino laborers and that the immigrants detained were coerced into signing voluntary deportation agreements.

Maksim Zaitsev, 35, of Costa Mesa allegedly bit a deportation officer on the left pinky finger, breaking skin, drawing blood and breaking the finger.