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An ICE raid on a farm in Ventura County, California had an especially brutal outcome. Jaime Alanís Garcia, a Mexican farmworker who spent nearly a decade picking tomatoes in California, is now on life support after falling 30 feet while fleeing an immigration raid.
Vice President JD Vance’s family trip to Disneyland sparked protests and criticism from California Governor Gavin Newsom, who accused him of tearing families apart amid recent ICE raids.
Mistaken reports of ICE raids are stoking fear, troubling law enforcement across Southern California
Societal paranoia’ is prompting people to see immigration enforcement where there is none, an expert says. Even Disneyland is not immune.
The judge said there was "a mountain of evidence" that federal agents had arrested people solely based on characteristics such as race, employment and accent.
San Bernardino Roman Catholic Bishop Alberto Rojas issued a dispensation Tuesday evening, offering members of his diocese’s roughly one million parishioners in danger of being deported the option to stay home Sundays.
According to reporting on the ground, the company’s facilities in Camarillo (Ventura County) and Carpinteria (Santa Barbara County) are the scenes of large-scale ICE raids. Protesters have gathered at both locations, with reports of federal agents using tear gas or pepper spray to push the crowds back.