The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department will honor the employees of a Compton restaurant for helping its community during the anti-ICE demonstrations this summer.

When the protests began during the first weekend of June, La Ceiba Restaurante served as a haven for both deputies and protesters during the demonstrations, with owner Elizabeth Mendoza and her staff helping anyone who came through their doors.

Mendoza, who immigrated from El Salvador, said she sympathized with the protesters, giving them water, food and napkins because the immigration operations affected many of her longtime customers.

"My kids, my husband, we're OK," she said in June. "But, I know a lot of people. They don't have papers. They don't have anything, but they want to work."

As the protests escalated on

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