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Federal immigration agents seeking to detain a Honduran landscaper chased him into a Southern California surgical center and quickly found themselves in a tense standoff as clinic staff demanded to see identification and a warrant.
“The idea that people who are dressed as if they’re robbing a liquor store are running around grabbing Californians and throwing them into unmarked vehicles and taking them God knows where — it’s like a dystopian nightmare,” Wiener told Playbook. “We need to be aggressive and decisive in trying to put a stop to it.”
As word spread among Catholics that immigration agents were visiting places of worship to carry out deportations, the pews inside the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels Catholic Church in downtown Los Angeles became less and less crowded.
As Trump tries to carry out mass deportation, ICE arrests are up. Compare his record to Obama's, who earned critical reputation as "deporter in chief"
California has six privately operated immigration detention centers. Two of these — Golden State Annex in McFarland and Mesa Verde ICE Processing Center in Bakersfield — are also located in Kern County and run by The Geo Group, another private prison operator.
ICE can put in a civil detainer requesting that departments give them a heads-up when a suspect will be released. A California law allows departments the choice to honor the request or not.
Demonstrators in San Francisco, Calif., attempted to block ICE agents from moving detainees from an immigration courthouse to a waiting van. KNTV's Thom Jensen reports.
A Los Angeles judge will hear arguments on whether to grant restraining orders against ICE over alleged constitutional violations during immigration arrests in California.