California, ICE and farmworker
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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 Department of Homeland Security is pushing back amid ongoing raids at California farms, including against Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, while drawing attention to the presence of unaccompanied alien minors and their apparent exploitation as cheap labor in those operations.
The Trump administration is seeking to keep illegal immigrants detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in federal custody by denying them bond hearings, according to multiple reports. Acting ICE director Todd Lyons wrote in an agency memo distributed earlier this month that while migrants without lawful status have historically been allowed to request a bond hearing
"There's never been a time where immigration detention hasn't been deadly, so it's just inevitable that the more people we detain, the more people who are going to die," Anthony Enriquez, the vice president of U.S. advocacy and litigation at RFK Human Rights, told Newsweek.
In an interview, 13 women discussed their experiences during and after a Nebraska immigration raid. Several claimed they were harassed and told they had no rights. ICE says it followed