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Members from California, Illinois and New Jersey have been denied access in recent weeks to immigrant detention facilities in their states. Oversight experts say that’s a substantial departure from past practice.
The White House, unhappy with the number of deportations so far, says operations to apprehend undocumented residents in sanctuary cities will only increase.
Community organizers say at least 35 people were arrested as federal immigration agents swept through Ventura County farms and packinghouses this week.
During a press briefing Wednesday, White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt also said that 157 people have been arrested for assault and obstruction-related charges.
The downtown curfew encircles the downtown Civic Center, including City Hall, the main county criminal courthouse, LAPD headquarters and federal buildings.
Alarm spread through California agricultural centers Tuesday as panicked workers reported that federal immigration authorities were showing up at farm fields and packinghouses from the Central Coast to the San Joaquin Valley.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services granted a Bakersfield family’s application for humanitarian parole, allowing the Mexican girl to remain in the U.S. where she receives lifesaving treatment for short bowel syndrome.
Trump revoked two large-scale Biden policies that extended temporary protection to migrants. ‘The court plainly botched this,’ Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote in a dissent.
The girl’s family received notice last month that their legal status had been terminated, warning them to leave the U.S. on their own. Doing so would put the girl at immediate risk of death, doctors say.
In 2023, a Mexican girl, 4, was allowed U.S. entry for lifesaving medical care. She and her parents, who live in Bakersfield, have been told they must leave.
