LOS ANGELES — Matilde suffered a heart attack after she was held by immigration agents at a Lowes parking lot and can no longer go to the store without breaking down. Narciso Barranco, a gardener accused of threatening heavily armed agents with a weed whacker, still wakes up with headaches after he was beaten during his arrest. Jaime Alanís Garcia died after falling 30 feet from a rafter as agents stormed his workplace.

The aggressive tactics led by Border Patrol agents hundreds of miles from their posts have left communities jarred, people injured and businesses gutted.

“I can’t erase the masked faces from my mind,” said Matilde, a 54-year-old mother who is still gripped with fear about the raid in the San Fernando Valley neighborhood of Pacoima. In a bystander video posted on social me

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