California, immigrant and Federal agents
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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.
Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said the worker wasn’t being pursued by federal authorities when he climbed onto the roof of a green house and fell.
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.
A US federal judge ordered the Donald Trump administration to halt broad immigration stops and arrests across seven California counties, including Los.
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.
A Riverside County mayor took to social media Wednesday to urge residents to stay home amid the ongoing ICE raids. This video aired on the KTLA 5 Morning News on.
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.
The bishop says the decision was made ‘in light of the pastoral needs of our diocese’ and concerns of ‘many’ congregants.