Kristen Stewart Expresses Support For City’s Immigrants: “LA Doesn’t Exist Without All Of Us”

A lifelong Angeleno, Kristen Stewart is advocating for her neighbors as ICE hits the streets of Los Angeles and other cities across the country.

When asked “what would break your heart if it disappeared from LA,” the Oscar nominee praised “immigrants” as just as detrimental to the city’s identity as filmmaking and fast food.

“I can’t stand the idea that the dismantling of the culture that did have a hand in making me who I am—which is so meaningless in the face of people’s lives being completely unearthed, uprooted, destroyed—this is not who we are,” she told Architectural Digest. “Where I’m from, I don’t identify with that right now.”

Stewart continued, “And so, I definitely am dying every day, thinking, ‘So, do we make movies about this? Do we throw all of our money at it? Do we stop buying burgers in the daytime? What do we do about this?’ I can’t fathom that it’s happening until it doesn’t happen. Los Angeles doesn’t exist without all of us.”

Following the killing of U.S. citizen and LA local Keith Porter Jr.who was shot on New Year’s Eve by an off-duty Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer, protests and public outcries have broken out over the fatal ICE shootings of Minnesota’s Renee Good and Alex Pretti, as well as the death of Savannah, Georgia’s Linda Davis, who was killed this month in a chase involving ICE.

Meanwhile, Stewart has recently invested in her hometown, buying the Highland Theatre with plans to reopen the 100-year old building to the community.