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Instead, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents detained the 23-year-old Colombian asylum seeker before she could board the plane, her lawyer, Nikolas De Bremaeker, said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ICE then transported Albornoz Hernandez to ICE’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california-city\">California City Detention Facility\u003c/a>, a remote center in the Mojave Desert that De Bremaeker called “an atrocious place where no human being should be sent.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020826398216-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12070623\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020826398216-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020826398216-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020826398216-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A guard walks to the entrance of an immigration detention center during a visit by California Democrats Sen. 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He was released that afternoon but would not speak to the specifics of the charges against him.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Justice department officials have said these indictments are the tip of the iceberg in what they allege is widespread voter fraud in California. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Every illegal vote cancels out the vote of a lawful American citizen,” Acting Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter said in a news release. “Each of the 28 defendants charged today appears on the list of more than 20,000 likely non-citizen registrants we provided to California election officials last week. California refused to look at that list. Today’s charges show exactly what that refusal puts at risk.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wednesday, a federal judge sided with California by rejecting a bid by the Trump administration to separate out any ballots sent in from people on that list. The decision by U.S. District Judge David Carter is a setback for the federal government in its efforts to exert more control over state-run elections ahead of the Nov. 3 midterm. On Monday, the Supreme Court denied an appeal by the Department of Justice to wade into its fight with California over voter rolls.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Never before in American history has the federal government, on the eve of an election, sought to coerce a state and local government to abandon their own Constitutional elections procedures and bend to the will of the Executive Branch,” Carter wrote in his \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cacd.1043513/gov.uscourts.cacd.1043513.149.0.pdf\">26-page decision\u003c/a>. “In bringing this lawsuit, the Executive would have this Court believe that it reigns as a sole sovereign. But California and its people are sovereign, too.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The California Newsroom tried to speak with many of the defendants and their lawyers, but except for Muñoz, all inquiries were turned down or received no response.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In its case against Jimenez, the government alleges the Fresno County resident submitted a voter registration application to the Fresno County Registrar in 2022, and checked a box indicating he is a U.S. citizen. Jimenez is also accused of voting in recent elections.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1T2p_9EHq-_wT05Kw7CRM4TvYElJM3qvR/view\">The complaint\u003c/a> said Jimenez subsequently told agents that he registered to vote after receiving his green card. Jimenez also said that he had been voting since 2023, according to the complaint, although he denied ever claiming he was a citizen.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Standard of proof \u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To prove its case against Jimenez and the other defendants, the government must show they deliberately broke federal law by voting as noncitizens, according to UCLA law professor Rick Hasen.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The \u003ca href=\"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title18/pdf/USCODE-2024-title18-partI-chap29-sec611.pdf\">federal statute\u003c/a> prohibits anyone who isn’t a U.S. citizen from voting to elect the president or members of Congress. Doing so is punishable by up to one year in prison, a fine or a combination of both.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/11/110226-Essayli-Voting-DOJ-AP-CM-01-6bdc8ebd.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12107822\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/11/110226-Essayli-Voting-DOJ-AP-CM-01-6bdc8ebd.png 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/11/110226-Essayli-Voting-DOJ-AP-CM-01-6bdc8ebd-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/11/110226-Essayli-Voting-DOJ-AP-CM-01-6bdc8ebd-1536x1024.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Bill Essayli, first assistant U.S. attorney for the Central District of California, is joined by Erin Burke, left, special agent in charge of Homeland Security Investigations, and San Luis Obispo County District Attorney Dan Dow during a news conference in Los Angeles on Nov. 2, 2026. 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Hong/AP Photo)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“In order to violate the statute, there has to be proof that the person did so intentionally,” Hasen said. “That is, they knew they were not eligible, and they did it anyway.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example, Hasen said it is not necessarily considered intentional if a government office, like the Department of Motor Vehicles, mistakenly offers someone who is not a citizen the chance to register to vote.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Suppose you are told by a government official you can register to vote, even if you’re not a citizen, and the person registers, then they might be doing so knowing that they registered but not knowing that they were violating the law,” Hasen added.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even a statement that a defendant makes acknowledging that he or she voted would not automatically prove the government’s case, Hasen said. Prosecutors must still show defendants were knowingly and willfully breaking the law.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said successful prosecutions or guilty pleas by noncitizens accused of voter fraud are rare.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“It seems to be a very small problem relative to the number of voters in the country,” Hasen said, adding that it is more about “trying to make an example of some people, rather than showing evidence that there’s a massive problem of election fraud in the United States.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Potential immigration consequences \u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While intentionality is key to a criminal case, it may not matter when it comes to immigration consequences. Regardless of whether someone meant to break the law, unlawful voting and falsely claiming to be a citizen, including by signing a voter registration form, \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/IF12767\">can be grounds for deportation\u003c/a> and for denial of an application for U.S. citizenship. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many of the people charged have lived in the U.S. legally for years and are in the process of applying for citizenship, according to the federal complaints against them. That could now be denied to them, even if the government doesn’t move to deport them.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stanford University Law Professor Jennifer Chacón said that one reason noncitizen voting is rare is that the price to pay is so steep.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“The fact that these individuals can be criminally prosecuted, barred from naturalization, subject to deportation, all demonstrates why, as a general rule, noncitizen voting is not a problem,” she said, “because there are many, many consequences to it, and people are generally aware of that.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Federal prosecutors said that the names they provided in California are only a small fraction of a wider problem. “We are investigating thousands of more similar cases throughout the nation,” Bill Essayli, U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, told reporters. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the Department of Justice has emphasized that the number of noncitizens charged with voting and related offenses has grown to more than 150 in this Trump term from a total of 13 under Biden’s entire term, other analysts point out that it is small compared to the number of registered voters.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">California has 23 million voters, Attorney General Bob Bonta noted, saying those who face charges in the state are “just a drop in the bucket numerically, and it makes the point that there is no widespread voter fraud.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101915782/bracing-for-the-coming-wave-of-legal-challenges-to-midterm-voting\">KQED’s Forum\u003c/a>, the UCLA Law Professor, Rick Hasen, cast doubt on the federal government’s statements. “What I think they’re actually trying to do,” he said, “is to project the image that there’s a widespread voter fraud problem in this country, and to kind of mimic the claims that President Trump has made, that noncitizens are voting in droves and affecting the outcome of elections.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cem>This story was reported by\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.kvpr.org/\">\u003cem>KVPR\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>,\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.kcrw.com/\">\u003cem>KCRW\u003c/em>\u003c/a> \u003cem>and\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/\">\u003cem>KQED\u003c/em>\u003c/a> \u003cem>with\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/californianewsroom\">\u003cem>The California Newsroom\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, a collaboration of public media outlets that includes NPR, CalMatters, KQED (San Francisco), LAist and KCRW (Los Angeles), KPBS (San Diego) and other stations across the state.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n",
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On Monday, the department \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-edca/pr/six-additional-aliens-charged-illegal-voting-counties-fresno-kings-sacramento-solano\">announced charges\u003c/a> against 12 more people in California. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many of the defendants are not charged with illegally voting, but with illegally registering to vote or lying on their naturalization applications. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More court appearances are set for the coming days and weeks. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Legal experts say that to gain convictions for illegal voting, prosecutors must prove that these people willfully committed a crime, which could be difficult. Regardless of any criminal convictions, even legal residents could be deported whether or not they knew they were breaking the law.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The cases and the people\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Twenty-three of those accused are from Southern California, six are from the Bay Area, four are from the Sacramento region, and seven are from Fresno County and the Central Valley. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of those arrested in the mid-October sweep, 72-year-old Omar Muñoz of Commerce, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kcrw.com/shows/kcrw-reports/stories/he-was-arrested-for-noncitizen-voting-but-doesnt-know-why?srsltid=AYCX9vJ7W0oSaW66PdUm7gOZNXvIXCkWqYU2c-Luy-m4G6_GS1Aak_Xc\">told KCRW\u003c/a> that six police vehicles, a helicopter and at least six reporters arrived at his home just after 5 a.m. on Oct. 19. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“It’s a show,” Muñoz told the station. “I said, ‘Wow!’ I said, ‘I’m not a killer.’”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Muñoz was still wearing pajamas when he was shackled around the waist and legs and transported to downtown Los Angeles. He was released that afternoon but would not speak to the specifics of the charges against him.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Justice department officials have said these indictments are the tip of the iceberg in what they allege is widespread voter fraud in California. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Every illegal vote cancels out the vote of a lawful American citizen,” Acting Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter said in a news release. “Each of the 28 defendants charged today appears on the list of more than 20,000 likely non-citizen registrants we provided to California election officials last week. California refused to look at that list. Today’s charges show exactly what that refusal puts at risk.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wednesday, a federal judge sided with California by rejecting a bid by the Trump administration to separate out any ballots sent in from people on that list. The decision by U.S. District Judge David Carter is a setback for the federal government in its efforts to exert more control over state-run elections ahead of the Nov. 3 midterm. On Monday, the Supreme Court denied an appeal by the Department of Justice to wade into its fight with California over voter rolls.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Never before in American history has the federal government, on the eve of an election, sought to coerce a state and local government to abandon their own Constitutional elections procedures and bend to the will of the Executive Branch,” Carter wrote in his \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cacd.1043513/gov.uscourts.cacd.1043513.149.0.pdf\">26-page decision\u003c/a>. “In bringing this lawsuit, the Executive would have this Court believe that it reigns as a sole sovereign. But California and its people are sovereign, too.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The California Newsroom tried to speak with many of the defendants and their lawyers, but except for Muñoz, all inquiries were turned down or received no response.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In its case against Jimenez, the government alleges the Fresno County resident submitted a voter registration application to the Fresno County Registrar in 2022, and checked a box indicating he is a U.S. citizen. Jimenez is also accused of voting in recent elections.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1T2p_9EHq-_wT05Kw7CRM4TvYElJM3qvR/view\">The complaint\u003c/a> said Jimenez subsequently told agents that he registered to vote after receiving his green card. Jimenez also said that he had been voting since 2023, according to the complaint, although he denied ever claiming he was a citizen.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Standard of proof \u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To prove its case against Jimenez and the other defendants, the government must show they deliberately broke federal law by voting as noncitizens, according to UCLA law professor Rick Hasen.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The \u003ca href=\"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title18/pdf/USCODE-2024-title18-partI-chap29-sec611.pdf\">federal statute\u003c/a> prohibits anyone who isn’t a U.S. citizen from voting to elect the president or members of Congress. Doing so is punishable by up to one year in prison, a fine or a combination of both.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/11/110226-Essayli-Voting-DOJ-AP-CM-01-6bdc8ebd.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12107822\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/11/110226-Essayli-Voting-DOJ-AP-CM-01-6bdc8ebd.png 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/11/110226-Essayli-Voting-DOJ-AP-CM-01-6bdc8ebd-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/11/110226-Essayli-Voting-DOJ-AP-CM-01-6bdc8ebd-1536x1024.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Bill Essayli, first assistant U.S. attorney for the Central District of California, is joined by Erin Burke, left, special agent in charge of Homeland Security Investigations, and San Luis Obispo County District Attorney Dan Dow during a news conference in Los Angeles on Nov. 2, 2026. (Jae C. Hong/AP Photo)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“In order to violate the statute, there has to be proof that the person did so intentionally,” Hasen said. “That is, they knew they were not eligible, and they did it anyway.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example, Hasen said it is not necessarily considered intentional if a government office, like the Department of Motor Vehicles, mistakenly offers someone who is not a citizen the chance to register to vote.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Suppose you are told by a government official you can register to vote, even if you’re not a citizen, and the person registers, then they might be doing so knowing that they registered but not knowing that they were violating the law,” Hasen added.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even a statement that a defendant makes acknowledging that he or she voted would not automatically prove the government’s case, Hasen said. Prosecutors must still show defendants were knowingly and willfully breaking the law.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said successful prosecutions or guilty pleas by noncitizens accused of voter fraud are rare.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“It seems to be a very small problem relative to the number of voters in the country,” Hasen said, adding that it is more about “trying to make an example of some people, rather than showing evidence that there’s a massive problem of election fraud in the United States.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Potential immigration consequences \u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While intentionality is key to a criminal case, it may not matter when it comes to immigration consequences. Regardless of whether someone meant to break the law, unlawful voting and falsely claiming to be a citizen, including by signing a voter registration form, \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/IF12767\">can be grounds for deportation\u003c/a> and for denial of an application for U.S. citizenship. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many of the people charged have lived in the U.S. legally for years and are in the process of applying for citizenship, according to the federal complaints against them. That could now be denied to them, even if the government doesn’t move to deport them.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stanford University Law Professor Jennifer Chacón said that one reason noncitizen voting is rare is that the price to pay is so steep.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“The fact that these individuals can be criminally prosecuted, barred from naturalization, subject to deportation, all demonstrates why, as a general rule, noncitizen voting is not a problem,” she said, “because there are many, many consequences to it, and people are generally aware of that.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Federal prosecutors said that the names they provided in California are only a small fraction of a wider problem. “We are investigating thousands of more similar cases throughout the nation,” Bill Essayli, U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, told reporters. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the Department of Justice has emphasized that the number of noncitizens charged with voting and related offenses has grown to more than 150 in this Trump term from a total of 13 under Biden’s entire term, other analysts point out that it is small compared to the number of registered voters.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">California has 23 million voters, Attorney General Bob Bonta noted, saying those who face charges in the state are “just a drop in the bucket numerically, and it makes the point that there is no widespread voter fraud.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101915782/bracing-for-the-coming-wave-of-legal-challenges-to-midterm-voting\">KQED’s Forum\u003c/a>, the UCLA Law Professor, Rick Hasen, cast doubt on the federal government’s statements. “What I think they’re actually trying to do,” he said, “is to project the image that there’s a widespread voter fraud problem in this country, and to kind of mimic the claims that President Trump has made, that noncitizens are voting in droves and affecting the outcome of elections.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cem>This story was reported by\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.kvpr.org/\">\u003cem>KVPR\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>,\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.kcrw.com/\">\u003cem>KCRW\u003c/em>\u003c/a> \u003cem>and\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/\">\u003cem>KQED\u003c/em>\u003c/a> \u003cem>with\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/californianewsroom\">\u003cem>The California Newsroom\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, a collaboration of public media outlets that includes NPR, CalMatters, KQED (San Francisco), LAist and KCRW (Los Angeles), KPBS (San Diego) and other stations across the state.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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Supervisor Elisa Marquez told KQED that it’s time the county reviews its 2025 policy as an ICE-free zone to see “if there are any gaps” or misunderstandings on how to implement it. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/Elisa-Marquez-Getty.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12094035\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/Elisa-Marquez-Getty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/Elisa-Marquez-Getty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/Elisa-Marquez-Getty-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Alameda County Supervisor Elisa Marquez speaks during a press conference announcing new funding for communities across the state to address homelessness and mental health and stronger accountability measures for counties administering CARE Court during a press conference at BACS REGIS Center in Hayward on March 2, 2026. (Jessica Christian/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The “ICE-free zone” policy covers Alameda County-owned properties, including Highland Hospital, and limits interactions with immigration authorities. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“We have an opportunity to reassess and evaluate what occurred so that way we can do our best to minimize any undue harm to anyone within our community,” Marquez said in an interview. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The scrutiny stems from an Oct. 16 incident in which ICE brought a man arrested in Emeryville into Highland for care. Nikolas De Bremaeker, an attorney for the patient with Centro Legal de la Raza, previously told KQED that an ICE agent tackled his client, sat on his chest and fractured six ribs. ICE said in a statement that agents “relied on their training to control the situation,” and that the man had disclosed a preexisting injury – that he fell off a ladder\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once at Highland, De Bremaeker and hospital staff told KQED that ICE tried to obstruct access to counsel and direct medical treatment.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The agent was “sitting on his bed, grinning at him,” De Bremaeker said of his client.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ICE said it’s standard practice for agents to accompany patients in their care to receive health services. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alameda Health System officials said at the Tuesday joint meeting that hospital staff didn’t receive a warrant for the patient from ICE. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nikki Fortunato Bas, a member of the Board of Supervisors, said at Tuesday’s meeting AHS had told her that the arrest was done with a warrant. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“That is extremely upsetting,” Fortunato Bas said. “Alameda Health System should’ve been clear that ICE wasn’t providing that information. ACILEP [the Alameda County Immigration Legal and Education Partnership] should’ve been clear that ICE wasn’t providing that information.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fortunato Bas said that officials have to think through what remedies the county and health system have in place, and how they can do more. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“There are a number of protocols at AHS — as I understand it, we have some protocols here at the county for the ICE-free zone — but we also have to do more,” Fortunato Bas said. “And, clearly, more training needs to be done.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A new state law, Senate Bill 81, requires health facilities to teach staff how to respond to federal immigration authorities’ request to use facilities. SB 81 also restricts the sharing of immigration information. While De Bremaeker’s client was hospitalized at Highland, several staff members wrote a letter obtained by KQED that AHS was not following state law as it relates to training. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">De Bremaeker, who previously called on federal lawmakers to investigate ICE’s actions at hospitals, told county supervisors at the meeting that he wanted more collaboration between Highland and his organization. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261023-Highland-Hospital-SK-01-e718d960.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12105983\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261023-Highland-Hospital-SK-01-e718d960.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261023-Highland-Hospital-SK-01-e718d960-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261023-Highland-Hospital-SK-01-e718d960-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Wilma Chan Highland Hospital Campus, part of the Alameda Health System, on Oct. 22, 2026, in Oakland. A sign that reads “Faithful Public Witness,” placed by protesters, hangs in front. (Samantha Kennedy/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Marquez said officials need to clarify who has the ability to verify legal documents in these situations, and “if ICE needs to be there, even if they have a legal warrant.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since Oct. 26, Marquez said there have been six ICE arrests in her district, which doesn’t include Highland. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“It is really concerning and disappointing to see the increase in enforcement, and it’s concerning leading up to Election Day as well,” Marquez said. “It does feel like it’s a threat to instill fear, and I think their intent is to dissuade people from exercising the right to vote.”\u003c/p>\n",
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Supervisor Elisa Marquez told KQED that it’s time the county reviews its 2025 policy as an ICE-free zone to see “if there are any gaps” or misunderstandings on how to implement it. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/Elisa-Marquez-Getty.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12094035\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/Elisa-Marquez-Getty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/Elisa-Marquez-Getty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/Elisa-Marquez-Getty-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Alameda County Supervisor Elisa Marquez speaks during a press conference announcing new funding for communities across the state to address homelessness and mental health and stronger accountability measures for counties administering CARE Court during a press conference at BACS REGIS Center in Hayward on March 2, 2026. 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While De Bremaeker’s client was hospitalized at Highland, several staff members wrote a letter obtained by KQED that AHS was not following state law as it relates to training. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">De Bremaeker, who previously called on federal lawmakers to investigate ICE’s actions at hospitals, told county supervisors at the meeting that he wanted more collaboration between Highland and his organization. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261023-Highland-Hospital-SK-01-e718d960.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12105983\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261023-Highland-Hospital-SK-01-e718d960.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261023-Highland-Hospital-SK-01-e718d960-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261023-Highland-Hospital-SK-01-e718d960-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Wilma Chan Highland Hospital Campus, part of the Alameda Health System, on Oct. 22, 2026, in Oakland. 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He told KQED that deportation journeys by ship could take many days, as opposed to hours on an airplane, and would be costly and inhumane.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/John-Garamendi-Getty.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12076926\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/John-Garamendi-Getty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/John-Garamendi-Getty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/John-Garamendi-Getty-1536x1023.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Rep. John Garamendi, D-California, at the U.S. Capitol after the last votes of the week on June 16, 2022. 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(Courtesy of Iman Khalil)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">About two dozen community members were on the lookout for agents on Thursday morning for hours, being directed by others to make noise if immigration authorities exited or entered the facility. They’d been showing up since Monday, an organizer said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Alameda Health System, which Highland is a part of, declined to comment on allegations specific to De Bremaeker’s client’s care, citing patient confidentiality. But said, generally, law enforcement does not direct treatment and the system is complying with all laws and requirements concerning immigration enforcement in its facilities. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an earlier statement to KQED about the ICE activity, AHS said that it activated an Incident Command Center and that security personnel were on site monitoring developments. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shortly after a planned demonstration against ICE’s presence got underway on Friday, the health system told KQED that no patients at Highland Hospital were in ICE custody, and ICE personnel were not present on the property. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Alameda Health System’s training falls short, staff says\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some staff members told AHS in the letter that they “at all levels, remain confused and consistently express a lack of clarity on policy when patients are brought in civil detention.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“This is out of step with current best practices in the state of California,” the staff members wrote. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb81\">Senate Bill 81\u003c/a>, which took effect in September 2025, requires medical health care providers to restrict certain immigration information from being shared and, as part of new restrictions to nonpublic areas, facilities must inform staff on how to respond to requests to access sites and establish procedures for receiving visitors.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/022426_ALAMEDA-COUNTY-HEALTH-CUTS-_GH_010-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12074474\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/022426_ALAMEDA-COUNTY-HEALTH-CUTS-_GH_010-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/022426_ALAMEDA-COUNTY-HEALTH-CUTS-_GH_010-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/022426_ALAMEDA-COUNTY-HEALTH-CUTS-_GH_010-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Wilma Chan Highland Hospital Campus is seen through flowering branches in Oakland on Feb. 24, 2026. The hospital is part of Alameda Health System. (Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But staff told administrators the hospital system isn’t in compliance with that law. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ansel Schmidt, a physical therapist at the Highland Hospital, isn’t on the patient’s care team, but helped draft the letter. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“I’m not sure that I’ve received anything that I would call training,” Schmidt told KQED. What Schmidt has received is a “badge buddy,” or a reference guide, that he said implies staff can cooperate with ICE. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A badge buddy reviewed by KQED shows that staff are instructed to notify an administrator when a patient in ICE custody shows up for care. Providers request agents leave during evaluation, inform patients of their rights and, if they don’t meet admission criteria, can be handed off to the ICE control office. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Schmidt said that emails about responding to immigration activity have left him and others feeling “really confused and isolated,” because that “isn’t a training.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In response to staff concerns over training and what training is already in place, AHS said staff are told to “promptly escalate” situations through the appropriate channels where immigration authorities are present at any facility.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“We reinforce these procedures through staff communications, training, scenario-based exercises, desktop training, and quick-reference ‘badge buddies’ that staff can keep with their identification badges,” AHS said. “The protocol has also been reviewed in staff webinar forums, including this week, and recordings are available to staff on our intranet.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Iman Khalil, a respiratory therapist at San Leandro Hospital, part of the Alameda Health System, said staff members receive minimal training about what to do when immigration authorities show up. Khalil received the same badge and emails Schmidt did.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Allowing the agents in the hospital … undoes all that training,” Khalil said. “You really don’t think they’ll even allow the agents in the hospital. But here we are.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AHS CEO James Jackson told staff that AHS believed the man in ICE’s custody at the hospital for the last week was part of the agency’s civil immigration enforcement authority and called on personnel to review established immigration response protocols, according to an Oct. 19 email obtained and reviewed by KQED. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alameda County Supervisor Nikki Fortunato Bas said a scheduled Oct. 27 joint meeting between county supervisors and the Alameda Health System Board of Trustees is an opportunity “to push for doing everything possible to enforce our policies that protect immigrant communities.” Fortunato Bas said officials will discuss budget, governance and compliance with local and state policies.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">ICE-free zone?\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Highland Hospital, which sits on county property, also falls under Alameda County’s “ICE-free zone” ordinance that limits cooperation with federal immigration authorities. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">County supervisors and advocates touted the policy, of which similar ones have been adopted across the Bay Area, as a way to push back against violent and sometimes deadly actions by immigration agents during the second Trump administration. In January, agents fatally shot Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minnesota during a surge of immigration enforcement. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But Alameda County Sheriff Yesenia Sanchez and other officials have also noted the limits of just how far the ICE-free zone can go. It doesn’t prevent immigration officials from actually being on county property, Sanchez \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2026/01/28/ice-free-zones-are-coming-to-alameda-county/\">said previously\u003c/a>. Officials in other jurisdictions with these “zones” have even referred to them as symbolic — or \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2026/02/04/ice-free-zones-community-wide-warning-system-weighed-in-richmond-amid-trump-crackdowns/\">a way to create\u003c/a> “false expectations.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1577\" height=\"1560\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261023-Highland-Hospital-SK-02-0b437edd.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12105984\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261023-Highland-Hospital-SK-02-0b437edd.jpg 1577w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261023-Highland-Hospital-SK-02-0b437edd-160x158.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261023-Highland-Hospital-SK-02-0b437edd-1536x1519.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1577px) 100vw, 1577px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">One side of an Alameda Health System employee’s “badge buddy” that outlines how to respond to immigration authorities when they show up to one of the facilities. (Courtesy of Iman Khalil)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">De Bremaeker said his client is still in ICE custody as of Thursday afternoon. Another man he represents was detained by ICE in the San Antonio neighborhood in Oakland on the same day, before being taken to another hospital for injuries that De Bremaeker said were sustained because of the officers’ actions. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The two cases are part of an “unprecedented escalation” of violence from ICE, De Bremaeker said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oakland City Council member Charlene Wang said in a social media video Friday afternoon that she was outraged by the arrests. She said she had been in touch with AHS administration to see if there were any legal grounds to remove immigration authorities from the property, which Wang said they “[didn’t] know the answer to yet.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The attorney called on federal lawmakers to launch a congressional inquiry into ICE’s actions and, in particular, the agency’s activity in hospitals. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“They have been occupying these hospitals for days, creating an incredible threat to community members, terrifying folks who need medical care from going to the hospital,” De Bremaeker said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ICE said that De Bremaeker’s client — who the agency characterized as an “illegal alien” — was arrested as part of a targeted enforcement operation. During which, the agency said the detainee tried to assault officers and refused lawful commands. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Officers relied on their training to control the situation,” an ICE spokesperson said, adding that De Bremaeker’s client disclosed a preexisting injury of falling off a ladder two days prior. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The agency said, like other law enforcement agencies, it is standard procedure for ICE to accompany detainees for the safety of staff and public. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Renee Coe, with the Party for Socialism and Liberation, is among the community members who came out to keep watch for ICE at the hospital. She said some community members are scared to show up to the hospital because of federal agents’ presence, but urged them not to put off medical care. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AHS said its property is not being used as a staging area, operations base or processing location for immigration enforcement activities, and the immigration vehicles currently on Highland property are present “only in connection with a patient who is in immigration enforcement custody.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fortunato Bas told community members outside the hospital on Friday that her understanding of the ICE presence on the property was the same as the health system’s.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“At any given time, I understand they only had two agents … maintaining legal custody of the patient at any given time,” Fortunato Bas said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">About 100 Oakland residents held an emergency press conference at 6 p.m. on Friday in front of Highland to demand accountability for local authorities, security contracting with the facility and AHS for “continuously” assisting ICE operations at the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cem>KQED’s\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/bkrans\">\u003cem>Brian Krans\u003c/em>\u003c/a> \u003cem>contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After immigration authorities detained a man in Emeryville last week and brought him to an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/highland-hospital\">Alameda County hospital\u003c/a>, some medical staff said they didn’t receive legally required training that would have helped them respond to enforcement activity. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Several staff members at Wilma Chan Highland Hospital Campus in Oakland told administrators in a letter that the Oct. 16 arrival of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and a detainee “highlighted major hazards to the rights and safety of our patients.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Immigration agents brought a man to Highland for treatment after an agent allegedly tackled him and fractured six of his ribs, said Nikolas De Bremaeker, an attorney at Centro Legal De La Raza who represents the man. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">De Bremaeker and some employees said agents allegedly tried to obstruct access to counsel, to direct medical treatment and asked staff for medical information. The agent who tackled the patient, the attorney said, had been “sitting on his bed, grinning at him.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“It’s incredibly scary,” De Bremaeker told KQED. “It’s just unacceptable for ICE agents to be terrorizing folks inside a hospital.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1505\" height=\"1432\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261023-Highland-Hospital-SK-03-5314ee6d.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12105985\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261023-Highland-Hospital-SK-03-5314ee6d.jpg 1505w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261023-Highland-Hospital-SK-03-5314ee6d-160x152.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1505px) 100vw, 1505px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">One side of an Alameda Health System employee’s “badge buddy” that outlines how to respond to immigration authorities when they show up to one of the facilities. (Courtesy of Iman Khalil)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">About two dozen community members were on the lookout for agents on Thursday morning for hours, being directed by others to make noise if immigration authorities exited or entered the facility. They’d been showing up since Monday, an organizer said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Alameda Health System, which Highland is a part of, declined to comment on allegations specific to De Bremaeker’s client’s care, citing patient confidentiality. But said, generally, law enforcement does not direct treatment and the system is complying with all laws and requirements concerning immigration enforcement in its facilities. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an earlier statement to KQED about the ICE activity, AHS said that it activated an Incident Command Center and that security personnel were on site monitoring developments. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shortly after a planned demonstration against ICE’s presence got underway on Friday, the health system told KQED that no patients at Highland Hospital were in ICE custody, and ICE personnel were not present on the property. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Alameda Health System’s training falls short, staff says\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some staff members told AHS in the letter that they “at all levels, remain confused and consistently express a lack of clarity on policy when patients are brought in civil detention.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“This is out of step with current best practices in the state of California,” the staff members wrote. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb81\">Senate Bill 81\u003c/a>, which took effect in September 2025, requires medical health care providers to restrict certain immigration information from being shared and, as part of new restrictions to nonpublic areas, facilities must inform staff on how to respond to requests to access sites and establish procedures for receiving visitors.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/022426_ALAMEDA-COUNTY-HEALTH-CUTS-_GH_010-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12074474\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/022426_ALAMEDA-COUNTY-HEALTH-CUTS-_GH_010-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/022426_ALAMEDA-COUNTY-HEALTH-CUTS-_GH_010-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/022426_ALAMEDA-COUNTY-HEALTH-CUTS-_GH_010-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Wilma Chan Highland Hospital Campus is seen through flowering branches in Oakland on Feb. 24, 2026. The hospital is part of Alameda Health System. (Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But staff told administrators the hospital system isn’t in compliance with that law. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ansel Schmidt, a physical therapist at the Highland Hospital, isn’t on the patient’s care team, but helped draft the letter. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“I’m not sure that I’ve received anything that I would call training,” Schmidt told KQED. What Schmidt has received is a “badge buddy,” or a reference guide, that he said implies staff can cooperate with ICE. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A badge buddy reviewed by KQED shows that staff are instructed to notify an administrator when a patient in ICE custody shows up for care. Providers request agents leave during evaluation, inform patients of their rights and, if they don’t meet admission criteria, can be handed off to the ICE control office. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Schmidt said that emails about responding to immigration activity have left him and others feeling “really confused and isolated,” because that “isn’t a training.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In response to staff concerns over training and what training is already in place, AHS said staff are told to “promptly escalate” situations through the appropriate channels where immigration authorities are present at any facility.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“We reinforce these procedures through staff communications, training, scenario-based exercises, desktop training, and quick-reference ‘badge buddies’ that staff can keep with their identification badges,” AHS said. “The protocol has also been reviewed in staff webinar forums, including this week, and recordings are available to staff on our intranet.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Iman Khalil, a respiratory therapist at San Leandro Hospital, part of the Alameda Health System, said staff members receive minimal training about what to do when immigration authorities show up. Khalil received the same badge and emails Schmidt did.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Allowing the agents in the hospital … undoes all that training,” Khalil said. “You really don’t think they’ll even allow the agents in the hospital. But here we are.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AHS CEO James Jackson told staff that AHS believed the man in ICE’s custody at the hospital for the last week was part of the agency’s civil immigration enforcement authority and called on personnel to review established immigration response protocols, according to an Oct. 19 email obtained and reviewed by KQED. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alameda County Supervisor Nikki Fortunato Bas said a scheduled Oct. 27 joint meeting between county supervisors and the Alameda Health System Board of Trustees is an opportunity “to push for doing everything possible to enforce our policies that protect immigrant communities.” Fortunato Bas said officials will discuss budget, governance and compliance with local and state policies.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">ICE-free zone?\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Highland Hospital, which sits on county property, also falls under Alameda County’s “ICE-free zone” ordinance that limits cooperation with federal immigration authorities. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">County supervisors and advocates touted the policy, of which similar ones have been adopted across the Bay Area, as a way to push back against violent and sometimes deadly actions by immigration agents during the second Trump administration. In January, agents fatally shot Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minnesota during a surge of immigration enforcement. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But Alameda County Sheriff Yesenia Sanchez and other officials have also noted the limits of just how far the ICE-free zone can go. It doesn’t prevent immigration officials from actually being on county property, Sanchez \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2026/01/28/ice-free-zones-are-coming-to-alameda-county/\">said previously\u003c/a>. Officials in other jurisdictions with these “zones” have even referred to them as symbolic — or \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2026/02/04/ice-free-zones-community-wide-warning-system-weighed-in-richmond-amid-trump-crackdowns/\">a way to create\u003c/a> “false expectations.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1577\" height=\"1560\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261023-Highland-Hospital-SK-02-0b437edd.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12105984\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261023-Highland-Hospital-SK-02-0b437edd.jpg 1577w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261023-Highland-Hospital-SK-02-0b437edd-160x158.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261023-Highland-Hospital-SK-02-0b437edd-1536x1519.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1577px) 100vw, 1577px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">One side of an Alameda Health System employee’s “badge buddy” that outlines how to respond to immigration authorities when they show up to one of the facilities. (Courtesy of Iman Khalil)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">De Bremaeker said his client is still in ICE custody as of Thursday afternoon. Another man he represents was detained by ICE in the San Antonio neighborhood in Oakland on the same day, before being taken to another hospital for injuries that De Bremaeker said were sustained because of the officers’ actions. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The two cases are part of an “unprecedented escalation” of violence from ICE, De Bremaeker said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oakland City Council member Charlene Wang said in a social media video Friday afternoon that she was outraged by the arrests. She said she had been in touch with AHS administration to see if there were any legal grounds to remove immigration authorities from the property, which Wang said they “[didn’t] know the answer to yet.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The attorney called on federal lawmakers to launch a congressional inquiry into ICE’s actions and, in particular, the agency’s activity in hospitals. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“They have been occupying these hospitals for days, creating an incredible threat to community members, terrifying folks who need medical care from going to the hospital,” De Bremaeker said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ICE said that De Bremaeker’s client — who the agency characterized as an “illegal alien” — was arrested as part of a targeted enforcement operation. During which, the agency said the detainee tried to assault officers and refused lawful commands. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Officers relied on their training to control the situation,” an ICE spokesperson said, adding that De Bremaeker’s client disclosed a preexisting injury of falling off a ladder two days prior. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The agency said, like other law enforcement agencies, it is standard procedure for ICE to accompany detainees for the safety of staff and public. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Renee Coe, with the Party for Socialism and Liberation, is among the community members who came out to keep watch for ICE at the hospital. She said some community members are scared to show up to the hospital because of federal agents’ presence, but urged them not to put off medical care. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AHS said its property is not being used as a staging area, operations base or processing location for immigration enforcement activities, and the immigration vehicles currently on Highland property are present “only in connection with a patient who is in immigration enforcement custody.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fortunato Bas told community members outside the hospital on Friday that her understanding of the ICE presence on the property was the same as the health system’s.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“At any given time, I understand they only had two agents … maintaining legal custody of the patient at any given time,” Fortunato Bas said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">About 100 Oakland residents held an emergency press conference at 6 p.m. on Friday in front of Highland to demand accountability for local authorities, security contracting with the facility and AHS for “continuously” assisting ICE operations at the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cem>KQED’s\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/bkrans\">\u003cem>Brian Krans\u003c/em>\u003c/a> \u003cem>contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty-eight \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/immigration\">immigrants\u003c/a> from across California are \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/11-foreign-nationals-arrested-california-federal-charges-alleging-they-illegally\">facing federal charges\u003c/a> alleging they illegally registered to vote or vote in California elections, federal prosecutors announced Monday in the Trump administration’s latest effort to imply California election rolls are riddled with fraudulent voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The charges come days after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12104425/california-officials-denounce-trump-dojs-demands-to-prove-voters-citizenship\">federal authorities filed\u003c/a> a lawsuit against state and Los Angeles County election officials that seeks to force elections officials not to count up to 20,000 registered voters’ ballots because federal prosecutors suspect those voters could be non-citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today’s charges demonstrate why that lawsuit is so important,” Acting U.S. Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter told reporters. “It’s about preventing voter fraud that cancels out the votes of U.S. citizens. Enforcing federal law increases the integrity of elections.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCotter said federal prosecutors filed a motion urging the judge overseeing the lawsuit in federal court in Los Angeles to order state officials to segregate the ballots that prosecutors suspect may have already been mailed to noncitizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12105147\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/AP26292634447502-20ffab03-scaled-e1792439822914.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12105147\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/AP26292634447502-20ffab03-scaled-e1792439822914.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" />\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Acting U.S. Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter, right, arrives for a news conference in Los Angeles on Oct. 19, 2026. \u003ccite>(AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California Attorney General Rob Bonta told reporters at an event Monday that voter fraud is wrong. If the suspects are guilty, they should be held accountable, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Bonta noted that the charges are hardly proof that California’s elections are filled with fraudulent voters as President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Twenty-eight out of 23 million registered voters in California is just … a drop in the bucket numerically,” Bonta said. “It’s 0.0001% of all the registered voters, and it makes the point that there is no widespread voter fraud.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The announcement comes just 15 days before the Nov. 3 election in which Californians are already deciding on a new governor, 14 statewide ballot measures and several competitive races that will be key to which party controls Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12104940 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20250903_FarmLaborCrisis_GC-15_qed.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s part of a national push by the Trump administration to find examples of noncitizens voting illegally in elections. Independent experts and state election officials say that voter fraud is exceedingly rare, despite claims from Trump and his allies that it happens on such a massive scale as to sway elections in Democrats’ favor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal prosecutors said all of the 28 foreign nationals who face charges are lawful permanent residents, otherwise known as green card holders. That means they are legally allowed to stay in the country but they are not citizens and are not allowed to vote in elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The defendants live in cities around the state from Los Angeles County to Sacramento. Of them, 22 are accused of voting in at least one election including as recently as the June primary; five only registered to vote and one submitted a provisional ballot in 2020, prosecutors say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Essayli said that in the last two months, federal prosecutors have charged around 113 noncitizens in 20 states with illegal voting and registration offenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The arrests represent just a miniscule fraction of registered voters. For example, more than 9.4 million Californians cast ballots in the June primary election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli, who oversees prosecutors in Los Angeles, said the federal government may charge state election officials with crimes if they allowed noncitizens to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are being complicit in noncitizens voting in our elections,” Essayli said. “And as they were warned last week, not only is it a civil violation, but they could also face criminal consequences for that conduct if they knowingly process ballots from noncitizens once we’ve informed them who the noncitizens are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12087182\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/251030-BayAreaVoters-25-BL_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12087182\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/251030-BayAreaVoters-25-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/251030-BayAreaVoters-25-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/251030-BayAreaVoters-25-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/251030-BayAreaVoters-25-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ballots sit in crates before being counted at the City Hall Voting Center in San Francisco on Oct. 30, 2025, ahead of the statewide special election. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The charges come weeks after federal investigators issued grand jury \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2026-09-29/subpoena-records-trump-administration-probe-la-county-voters\">subpoenas\u003c/a> to Los Angeles elections officials seeking information on registered voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal prosecutors also sought information on registered voters in San Diego County, \u003ca href=\"https://inewsource.org/2026/10/01/san-diego-county-doj-voter-information-subpoenas/\">the news outlet inewsource\u003c/a> reported, as well as Orange County, according to records obtained last week by CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Homeland Security recently claimed that Nevada had nearly 16,000 noncitizens on its voter rolls; they sent the state the names of only 185 voters. Nevada officials \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/us/politics/nevada-voters-homeland-security-trump.html\">confirmed they were all U.S. citizens\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. 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Of them, 22 are accused of voting in at least one election including as recently as the June primary; five only registered to vote and one submitted a provisional ballot in 2020, prosecutors say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Essayli said that in the last two months, federal prosecutors have charged around 113 noncitizens in 20 states with illegal voting and registration offenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The arrests represent just a miniscule fraction of registered voters. For example, more than 9.4 million Californians cast ballots in the June primary election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli, who oversees prosecutors in Los Angeles, said the federal government may charge state election officials with crimes if they allowed noncitizens to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are being complicit in noncitizens voting in our elections,” Essayli said. “And as they were warned last week, not only is it a civil violation, but they could also face criminal consequences for that conduct if they knowingly process ballots from noncitizens once we’ve informed them who the noncitizens are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12087182\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/251030-BayAreaVoters-25-BL_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12087182\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/251030-BayAreaVoters-25-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/251030-BayAreaVoters-25-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/251030-BayAreaVoters-25-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/251030-BayAreaVoters-25-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ballots sit in crates before being counted at the City Hall Voting Center in San Francisco on Oct. 30, 2025, ahead of the statewide special election. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The charges come weeks after federal investigators issued grand jury \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2026-09-29/subpoena-records-trump-administration-probe-la-county-voters\">subpoenas\u003c/a> to Los Angeles elections officials seeking information on registered voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal prosecutors also sought information on registered voters in San Diego County, \u003ca href=\"https://inewsource.org/2026/10/01/san-diego-county-doj-voter-information-subpoenas/\">the news outlet inewsource\u003c/a> reported, as well as Orange County, according to records obtained last week by CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Homeland Security recently claimed that Nevada had nearly 16,000 noncitizens on its voter rolls; they sent the state the names of only 185 voters. Nevada officials \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/us/politics/nevada-voters-homeland-security-trump.html\">confirmed they were all U.S. citizens\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom last week called the Trump administration’s voter fraud hunt “a sad, desperate attempt by Trump to use his politicized Justice Department to try to suppress California voters just three weeks before Election Day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the prosecutors’ request to throw out ballots “should scare the hell out of every American.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will continue to carry out free and fair elections in the Golden State — and call out this authoritarian as he tries every play in the dictator’s playbook,” Newsom said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/calam\">Christopher Alam \u003c/a>contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/10/california-federal-arrests-voter-fraud/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n\u003cp>With just a few weeks until the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/\">Nov. 3 midterm elections\u003c/a>, concerns — and rumors — about operations by U.S. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/immigration\">Immigration and Customs Enforcement\u003c/a> are once again spreading among immigrant communities in California.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Advocates have confirmed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12103799/bay-area-officials-immigration-advocates-brace-for-ice-surge-after-central-valley-arrests\">a wave\u003c/a> of immigration arrests across the Central Valley this month, with more than 100 farmworkers and other people detained since Monday. And while Bay Area groups that monitor ICE activity have not seen a similar surge in the region, elected officials and community groups have expressed concern that the fear of immigration raids could discourage even eligible citizens from voting on Election Day.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We know what Republicans are trying to do — intimidate Latino citizens so they stay at home and don’t exercise their right to vote,” East Bay Rep. Lateefah Simon told KQED in an emailed statement.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/241202-NewBayAreaCongressmembers-05-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12068706\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/241202-NewBayAreaCongressmembers-05-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/241202-NewBayAreaCongressmembers-05-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/241202-NewBayAreaCongressmembers-05-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Lateefah Simon, Congresswoman-elect for California’s 12th congressional district, speaks with KQED politics reporter Scott Shafer at KQED’s offices in San Francisco on Dec. 2, 2024. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Whenever there’s been a confirmed, major ICE operation in California, local businesses in majority Latino neighborhoods \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12050993/a-day-in-the-life-of-san-joses-rapid-response-network-built-to-resist-ice-fear\">struggle\u003c/a>, schools \u003ca href=\"https://siepr.stanford.edu/news/student-absences-increased-under-threat-deportation-efforts-study-finds\">see more absences\u003c/a>, and immigrant families even postpone \u003ca href=\"https://cssp.org/resource/through-their-eyes-immigration-enforcement-health-wellbeing-children-families/\">going to the doctor\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“If people hear the rumors that ICE is present, then right away the community lets itself know: ‘We need to stay home’,” said Jacob Sandoval, director of the California chapter of the League of United Latin American Citizens.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump to: \u003ca href=\"#ice-agents\">What does the law say about law enforcement at polling booths?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In a statement released solely in Spanish on Oct. 9, Gov. Gavin Newsom acknowledged an increase in reports of federal immigration enforcement in California. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But he urged state residents to know their rights, adding that “Donald Trump uses fear as a weapon — putting families in danger, weakening trust and terrifying communities.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Here’s what we know so far about immigration enforcement in California in the run-up to the midterm election.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How reports and rumors are fueling anxieties ahead of the midterms\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>An article published earlier this month by the \u003cem>Washington Examiner\u003c/em> stated that ICE had launched a 45-day operation across California to arrest all immigrants without legal status. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Several \u003ca href=\"https://newrepublic.com/post/216405/ice-terrifying-marching-orders-california\">other publications\u003c/a> picked up the story and within days, dozens of posts warning about what ICE was allegedly calling “Operation Safe California” circulated on social media.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The original reporting only quotes two unnamed sources and pointed to San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego as the three main targets of ICE’s apparent surge. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>This move, the story suggested, was part of a strategy by the White House to focus immigration enforcement on California ahead of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide\">Nov. 3 elections\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Noting the proximity to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide\">midterm elections\u003c/a>, the story said: “the decision to focus ICE resources throughout the sanctuary state is the latest effort by the Trump administration to unleash ICE in a blue state following surges to Minnesota, Illinois, New York, and Oregon.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In a statement to KQED, the Department of Homeland Security said that “for operational security and the safety of our officers, ICE will not disclose or discuss law enforcement operations.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Every day, DHS enforces the laws of the nation across the country including in California,” a spokesperson wrote via email. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Back in January, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12071704/ice-super-bowl-immigration-enforcement-santa-clara-san-francisco-bay-area-2026\">similar rumors\u003c/a> about possible ICE activity at Super Bowl LX in Santa Clara spread across the Bay Area in the run-up to the event — rumors which DHS similarly refused to confirm or deny following KQED’s queries. (Ultimately, no mass immigration enforcement materialized at the event.)\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Voting fears among even citizens\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A recent investigation \u003ca href=\"https://projects.propublica.org/american-citizens-detained-dhs-civil-rights/\">by ProPublica\u003c/a> found that immigration enforcement agents have detained more than 500 U.S. citizens during the second Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>And LULAC’s Sandoval emphasized that fears about increased ICE activity can also impact mixed-status families — where some relatives are U.S. citizens or permanent residents, while others have no legal status. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Families might not feel comfortable with their loved ones going to the polls, even if they’re U.S. citizens,” Sandoval said. “We don’t want law enforcement or ICE around polling places where people might feel intimidated.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/GettyImages-2285787606-scaled-e1791586238561.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12091600\"/>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">U.S. President Donald Trump addresses the nation from the East Room of the White House on July 16, 2026, in Washington, D.C. (Saul Loeb/Pool via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>When it comes to citizenship and voter eligibility, California is already fighting a separate legal battle with the federal government ahead of the midterms. On Thursday, the Department of Justice \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12104425/california-officials-denounce-trump-dojs-demands-to-prove-voters-citizenship\">filed a lawsuit\u003c/a> in order to force state officials to set aside the ballots already mailed to over 20,000 registered voters — individuals that the Trump administration claimed are not actually eligible citizens.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>California Secretary of State Shirley Weber, the state’s top elections official, said in a letter that she will review any evidence from the federal government that proves certain voters are not citizens.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“However, I will not disenfranchise thousands of Californians — or order any county elections official to do so — based solely upon an unsupported and likely inaccurate ‘belie[f]’ that certain voters are ‘likely’ noncitizens,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Has there been an immigration enforcement surge in the Bay Area?\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>KQED \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12103799/bay-area-officials-immigration-advocates-brace-for-ice-surge-after-central-valley-arrests\">reached out\u003c/a> to immigration advocates and rapid response networks across the state to confirm if they were seeing a surge in ICE operations in the wake of the Central Valley arrests and the \u003cem>Washington Examiner\u003c/em>’s claims.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We are definitely on the alert and preparing in case of increased ICE activity or large-scale raids in our region,” said Lourdes Martínez, co-director of the Alameda County Immigration Legal and Education Partnership, the county’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12050971/meet-the-community-members-behind-santa-clara-countys-ice-rapid-response-network\">rapid response network\u003c/a>. “We have not been able to verify any specifics, so we are monitoring the situation.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She added that lawyers are preparing in case large-scale raids do materialize. Outreach workers are also sharing an \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/ACILEP-Safety-Planning-Checklist-for-Families-2026-9a7f4962.pdf\">“Emergency Planning Checklist for Families”\u003c/a> to help immigrants prepare, said Martínez, in case a family member is arrested.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/ICE-Arrests-CA-Getty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12098459\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/ICE-Arrests-CA-Getty2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/ICE-Arrests-CA-Getty2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/ICE-Arrests-CA-Getty2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents walk a detainee out of the Ventura County Government Center in Ventura, California, on July 27, 2026. (Blake Fagan/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Other groups in the Bay Area that monitor ICE activity have told KQED they haven’t yet seen a major surge, but confirmed that rumors about “Operation California” \u003cem>have \u003c/em>circulated widely in their communities.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Meanwhile in the Central Valley, state Sen. Anna Caballero — who represents parts of Fresno and Merced — said she had heard of an estimated 60 arrests last week within the communities she represents.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The facility in downtown Fresno is having trouble processing” this amount of detainees, Caballero’s spokesperson Elisa Rivera told KQED in an email. “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12084687/like-an-angel-meet-the-helpers-working-at-bay-area-immigration-court\">Legal observers\u003c/a> are having little success gaining access.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"ice-agents\">What does the law say about ICE agents at polling locations?\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, California lawmakers \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb884\">approved stronger restrictions\u003c/a> on how law enforcement officers can conduct arrests during an election.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>SB 884 prohibits law enforcement — a category which includes federal agents like ICE but also state and local officers — from making arrests within 200 feet of a polling place on Election Day. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The law does specify an exception: Arrests can still be made within the 200 feet “buffer zone” for crimes “related to disrupting the operation of the polling place, a crime against a person, or a crime against property.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/251104-SCCVOTE-JG-05_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12088632\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/251104-SCCVOTE-JG-05_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/251104-SCCVOTE-JG-05_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/251104-SCCVOTE-JG-05_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Edgardo Domingo fills out a ballot at a voting booth at the Vietnamese American Cultural Center in San José on Nov. 4, 2025. (Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We know that it can be a form of intimidation if folks are going to vote in person and see law enforcement there,” said Angélica Salceda, with the ACLU of Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We all have a right to be able to cast our ballot free from coercion or intimidation,” she added. “We have the right for that vote to be secret. We don’t have to answer any questions about who we voted for if we don’t want to.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>If county officials determine that voting was disrupted at a polling place because law enforcement violated this law, they can extend the time voters have to turn in their ballots beyond the usual poll closing time of 8 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>However, SB 884 specifies that the buffer zone only applies on Election Day — Nov. 3 of this year. There is no mention of these restrictions being effective on the weeks leading up to Election Day, when many voters go to their county election office or early voting center to turn in their ballots.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Salceda points out that there are also other ways to vote, including mailing in your ballot by Nov. 3 or placing it in an official county drop box. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Trump administration has tried to change the rules around voting by mail, but these efforts were \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/u-s-supreme-court-blocks-postal-service-from-restricting-mail-ballots\">blocked earlier\u003c/a> this year by the Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Armed law enforcement aren’t the only ones capable of voter intimidation, added Salceda. “We’re talking about situations where someone would want to drop their ballot at the dropbox and someone is there harassing or intimidating people,” she said. “Those are unlawful actions that should be reported.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>California’s secretary of state has \u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/contact\">a hotline available\u003c/a> in multiple languages where residents can report incidents that may violate electoral law.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>English: 800-345-VOTE (8683) \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Spanish: 800-232-VOTA (8682)\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Chinese: 800-339-2857 \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Hindi: 888-345-2692\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Tagalog: 800-339-2957\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/tychehendricks\">\u003cem>Tyche Hendricks \u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>and \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/lfitzgerald\">\u003cem>Laura Fitzgerald\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n",
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(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Whenever there’s been a confirmed, major ICE operation in California, local businesses in majority Latino neighborhoods \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12050993/a-day-in-the-life-of-san-joses-rapid-response-network-built-to-resist-ice-fear\">struggle\u003c/a>, schools \u003ca href=\"https://siepr.stanford.edu/news/student-absences-increased-under-threat-deportation-efforts-study-finds\">see more absences\u003c/a>, and immigrant families even postpone \u003ca href=\"https://cssp.org/resource/through-their-eyes-immigration-enforcement-health-wellbeing-children-families/\">going to the doctor\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“If people hear the rumors that ICE is present, then right away the community lets itself know: ‘We need to stay home’,” said Jacob Sandoval, director of the California chapter of the League of United Latin American Citizens.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump to: \u003ca href=\"#ice-agents\">What does the law say about law enforcement at polling booths?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In a statement released solely in Spanish on Oct. 9, Gov. Gavin Newsom acknowledged an increase in reports of federal immigration enforcement in California. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But he urged state residents to know their rights, adding that “Donald Trump uses fear as a weapon — putting families in danger, weakening trust and terrifying communities.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Here’s what we know so far about immigration enforcement in California in the run-up to the midterm election.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How reports and rumors are fueling anxieties ahead of the midterms\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>An article published earlier this month by the \u003cem>Washington Examiner\u003c/em> stated that ICE had launched a 45-day operation across California to arrest all immigrants without legal status. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Several \u003ca href=\"https://newrepublic.com/post/216405/ice-terrifying-marching-orders-california\">other publications\u003c/a> picked up the story and within days, dozens of posts warning about what ICE was allegedly calling “Operation Safe California” circulated on social media.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The original reporting only quotes two unnamed sources and pointed to San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego as the three main targets of ICE’s apparent surge. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>This move, the story suggested, was part of a strategy by the White House to focus immigration enforcement on California ahead of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide\">Nov. 3 elections\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Noting the proximity to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide\">midterm elections\u003c/a>, the story said: “the decision to focus ICE resources throughout the sanctuary state is the latest effort by the Trump administration to unleash ICE in a blue state following surges to Minnesota, Illinois, New York, and Oregon.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In a statement to KQED, the Department of Homeland Security said that “for operational security and the safety of our officers, ICE will not disclose or discuss law enforcement operations.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Every day, DHS enforces the laws of the nation across the country including in California,” a spokesperson wrote via email. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Back in January, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12071704/ice-super-bowl-immigration-enforcement-santa-clara-san-francisco-bay-area-2026\">similar rumors\u003c/a> about possible ICE activity at Super Bowl LX in Santa Clara spread across the Bay Area in the run-up to the event — rumors which DHS similarly refused to confirm or deny following KQED’s queries. (Ultimately, no mass immigration enforcement materialized at the event.)\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Voting fears among even citizens\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A recent investigation \u003ca href=\"https://projects.propublica.org/american-citizens-detained-dhs-civil-rights/\">by ProPublica\u003c/a> found that immigration enforcement agents have detained more than 500 U.S. citizens during the second Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>And LULAC’s Sandoval emphasized that fears about increased ICE activity can also impact mixed-status families — where some relatives are U.S. citizens or permanent residents, while others have no legal status. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Families might not feel comfortable with their loved ones going to the polls, even if they’re U.S. citizens,” Sandoval said. “We don’t want law enforcement or ICE around polling places where people might feel intimidated.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/GettyImages-2285787606-scaled-e1791586238561.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12091600\"/>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">U.S. President Donald Trump addresses the nation from the East Room of the White House on July 16, 2026, in Washington, D.C. (Saul Loeb/Pool via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>When it comes to citizenship and voter eligibility, California is already fighting a separate legal battle with the federal government ahead of the midterms. On Thursday, the Department of Justice \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12104425/california-officials-denounce-trump-dojs-demands-to-prove-voters-citizenship\">filed a lawsuit\u003c/a> in order to force state officials to set aside the ballots already mailed to over 20,000 registered voters — individuals that the Trump administration claimed are not actually eligible citizens.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>California Secretary of State Shirley Weber, the state’s top elections official, said in a letter that she will review any evidence from the federal government that proves certain voters are not citizens.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“However, I will not disenfranchise thousands of Californians — or order any county elections official to do so — based solely upon an unsupported and likely inaccurate ‘belie[f]’ that certain voters are ‘likely’ noncitizens,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Has there been an immigration enforcement surge in the Bay Area?\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>KQED \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12103799/bay-area-officials-immigration-advocates-brace-for-ice-surge-after-central-valley-arrests\">reached out\u003c/a> to immigration advocates and rapid response networks across the state to confirm if they were seeing a surge in ICE operations in the wake of the Central Valley arrests and the \u003cem>Washington Examiner\u003c/em>’s claims.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We are definitely on the alert and preparing in case of increased ICE activity or large-scale raids in our region,” said Lourdes Martínez, co-director of the Alameda County Immigration Legal and Education Partnership, the county’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12050971/meet-the-community-members-behind-santa-clara-countys-ice-rapid-response-network\">rapid response network\u003c/a>. “We have not been able to verify any specifics, so we are monitoring the situation.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She added that lawyers are preparing in case large-scale raids do materialize. Outreach workers are also sharing an \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/ACILEP-Safety-Planning-Checklist-for-Families-2026-9a7f4962.pdf\">“Emergency Planning Checklist for Families”\u003c/a> to help immigrants prepare, said Martínez, in case a family member is arrested.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/ICE-Arrests-CA-Getty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12098459\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/ICE-Arrests-CA-Getty2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/ICE-Arrests-CA-Getty2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/ICE-Arrests-CA-Getty2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents walk a detainee out of the Ventura County Government Center in Ventura, California, on July 27, 2026. (Blake Fagan/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Other groups in the Bay Area that monitor ICE activity have told KQED they haven’t yet seen a major surge, but confirmed that rumors about “Operation California” \u003cem>have \u003c/em>circulated widely in their communities.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Meanwhile in the Central Valley, state Sen. Anna Caballero — who represents parts of Fresno and Merced — said she had heard of an estimated 60 arrests last week within the communities she represents.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The facility in downtown Fresno is having trouble processing” this amount of detainees, Caballero’s spokesperson Elisa Rivera told KQED in an email. “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12084687/like-an-angel-meet-the-helpers-working-at-bay-area-immigration-court\">Legal observers\u003c/a> are having little success gaining access.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"ice-agents\">What does the law say about ICE agents at polling locations?\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, California lawmakers \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb884\">approved stronger restrictions\u003c/a> on how law enforcement officers can conduct arrests during an election.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>SB 884 prohibits law enforcement — a category which includes federal agents like ICE but also state and local officers — from making arrests within 200 feet of a polling place on Election Day. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The law does specify an exception: Arrests can still be made within the 200 feet “buffer zone” for crimes “related to disrupting the operation of the polling place, a crime against a person, or a crime against property.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/251104-SCCVOTE-JG-05_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12088632\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/251104-SCCVOTE-JG-05_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/251104-SCCVOTE-JG-05_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/251104-SCCVOTE-JG-05_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Edgardo Domingo fills out a ballot at a voting booth at the Vietnamese American Cultural Center in San José on Nov. 4, 2025. (Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We know that it can be a form of intimidation if folks are going to vote in person and see law enforcement there,” said Angélica Salceda, with the ACLU of Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We all have a right to be able to cast our ballot free from coercion or intimidation,” she added. “We have the right for that vote to be secret. We don’t have to answer any questions about who we voted for if we don’t want to.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>If county officials determine that voting was disrupted at a polling place because law enforcement violated this law, they can extend the time voters have to turn in their ballots beyond the usual poll closing time of 8 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>However, SB 884 specifies that the buffer zone only applies on Election Day — Nov. 3 of this year. There is no mention of these restrictions being effective on the weeks leading up to Election Day, when many voters go to their county election office or early voting center to turn in their ballots.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Salceda points out that there are also other ways to vote, including mailing in your ballot by Nov. 3 or placing it in an official county drop box. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Trump administration has tried to change the rules around voting by mail, but these efforts were \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/u-s-supreme-court-blocks-postal-service-from-restricting-mail-ballots\">blocked earlier\u003c/a> this year by the Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Armed law enforcement aren’t the only ones capable of voter intimidation, added Salceda. “We’re talking about situations where someone would want to drop their ballot at the dropbox and someone is there harassing or intimidating people,” she said. “Those are unlawful actions that should be reported.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>California’s secretary of state has \u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/contact\">a hotline available\u003c/a> in multiple languages where residents can report incidents that may violate electoral law.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>English: 800-345-VOTE (8683) \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Spanish: 800-232-VOTA (8682)\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Chinese: 800-339-2857 \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Hindi: 888-345-2692\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Tagalog: 800-339-2957\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/tychehendricks\">\u003cem>Tyche Hendricks \u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>and \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/lfitzgerald\">\u003cem>Laura Fitzgerald\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/trump-administration\">Trump administration\u003c/a> sued California and state elections officials on Thursday, two days after demanding that they prove U.S. citizenship for tens of thousands of registered voters — or set aside their ballots.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The unusual lawsuit, filed weeks before Election Day, immediately drew criticism from Gov. Gavin Newsom and state officials, who have accused President Donald Trump and the federal government of stoking unfounded concerns about voter fraud and trying to intimidate voters.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In letters sent Tuesday to California Secretary of State Shirley Weber and Los Angeles County Registrar of Voters Dean Logan, who are also named as defendants in the lawsuit, the U.S. Department of Justice gave officials two days to confirm the voters’ citizenship status, ramping up its pressure on the state to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/election-integrity\">root out alleged voter fraud\u003c/a> ahead of the Nov. 3 midterm election.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The letters sent by acting U.S. Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter were accompanied by a password-protected thumb drive that the DOJ said contained the names of over 20,000 voters who the federal government “believes are likely noncitizens.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In its complaint filed Thursday, the Justice Department asked a federal court to order California to set aside the vote-by-mail ballots sent to those people and to block the state from counting those ballots until the voters’ citizenship status can be confirmed.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/DOJAPPhoto-196de4d3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12104428\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/DOJAPPhoto-196de4d3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/DOJAPPhoto-196de4d3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/DOJAPPhoto-196de4d3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The U.S. Department of Justice logo is seen on a podium before a press conference, May 6, 2025, at the Justice Department in Washington. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Photo)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This is a sad, desperate attempt by Trump to use his politicized Justice Department to try to suppress California voters just three weeks before Election Day,” Newsom said in a statement. “Courts have made clear the federal government has no role in running state elections. We will defend free and fair elections in the Golden State and call out every authoritarian attempt to undermine our democracy.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Legal experts say the lawsuit faces an uphill battle. Similar suits by the Trump administration over California’s voter rolls have been unsuccessful since the start of Trump’s second term.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We are nineteen days away from the last day of voting. Six million ballots have already been cast. This is not a good faith effort based on the timing,” said David Becker, who heads the nonpartisan Center for Election Innovation and Research.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Attorney General Todd Blanche said the 20,000 individuals were flagged as likely noncitizens by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and the investigative arm of the Department of Homeland Security.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We provided California an opportunity to self-correct its records, and we requested that it segregate the suspected illegal ballots for the upcoming election,” Blanche said in a statement. “California has refused to comply and intends to facilitate noncitizens in voting, which is a violation of federal law.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In a statement, Logan said Los Angeles County election officials did not try accessing the thumb drive because it didn’t meet the registrar’s security standards.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>After McCotter sent the letters to Weber and Logan, California Attorney General Rob Bonta denounced the Trump administration for taking such a step while voters across the state are already filling out \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12103647/dropbox-near-me-san-francisco-bay-area-find-my-polling-place-election-day-voter-guide-california-midterm-elections-2026-vote-for-governor\">vote-by-mail ballots\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Every count, recount, hand count, lawsuit, and audit has found that there’s no widespread voter fraud in the U.S.,” Bonta wrote in a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/AGRobBonta/status/2110834245312839757\">post\u003c/a> on X, responding to the lawsuit. “The Trump Admin’s last-minute demands are meritless, and we look forward to making our case in court.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>On Thursday, Weber’s office released a response to McCotter’s letter in which the state’s top elections official said she aimed “to set the record straight.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She noted “serious doubts” about the accuracy of the list as well as an earlier claim from DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin that over 190,000 registered California voters “may be” noncitizens. California has yet to receive any response to a request for the data and methodology behind those claims, Weber said, noting that courts have found the federal government’s citizenship records to be unreliable.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“If the federal government possesses proof that certain registered voters in California are ineligible, we will welcome the opportunity to review that evidence and any supporting data or methodology,” Weber wrote in her letter to McCotter. “However, I will not disenfranchise thousands of Californians—or order any county elections official to do so—based solely upon an unsupported and likely inaccurate ‘belie[f]’ that certain voters are ‘likely’ noncitizens.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Democratic Sen. Alex Padilla joined other California officials in labeling the lawsuit an attempt at election interference.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We’ve seen this coming: Donald Trump’s Department of Justice with no authority is now actively trying to interfere in the 2026 elections and strong-arm California into purging names from our voter rolls and blocking mail ballots based purely on vague allegations less than three weeks before Election Day,” Padilla said in a statement Thursday. “This lawsuit has no legal basis or evidence behind it and is nothing more than a blatant abuse of power designed to sow distrust in our elections and threaten Americans’ right to vote.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/GettyImages-2285787606-scaled-e1791586238561.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12091600\"/>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">U.S. President Donald Trump addresses the nation from the East Room of the White House on July 16, 2026, in Washington, D.C. (Saul Loeb/Pool via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Department of Justice’s demands come after most California counties already began mailing ballots to voters last week. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“California’s voter lists are public, and this administration has had 21 months with total control of the federal government to review those public lists. … One must question why the DOJ would violate its own rules about investigating elections close to Election Day, and over a week after they knew the state had already mailed ballots out, particularly when their past claims have been full of errors,” Becker said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>It wasn’t immediately clear whether any other county elections offices received similar letters from the Trump administration, though several Northern California counties contacted by KQED had not as of Wednesday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Unless we hear otherwise from the California Secretary of State, there will be no changes to Vote-by-Mail procedures in Sonoma County for the Nov. 3, 2026, General Election,” Wendy Hudson, deputy chief registrar of voters for Sonoma County, said in a statement to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Officials in Marin, Sonoma, Contra Costa, Solano and Yolo counties also said they hadn’t received any communication from the federal government demanding proof of citizenship for the voters on their rolls.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Registration data is cross-checked at the state level, with other state and federal agencies to ensure that only eligible people are registered,” Hudson said. “If someone does not confirm on a voter registration application that they are a U.S. citizen, we would not process their voter registration application.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/mlagos\">Marisa Lagos\u003c/a>\u003c/em> \u003cem>and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ibloom\">Izzy Bloom\u003c/a> contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n",
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(Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Photo)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This is a sad, desperate attempt by Trump to use his politicized Justice Department to try to suppress California voters just three weeks before Election Day,” Newsom said in a statement. “Courts have made clear the federal government has no role in running state elections. We will defend free and fair elections in the Golden State and call out every authoritarian attempt to undermine our democracy.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Legal experts say the lawsuit faces an uphill battle. Similar suits by the Trump administration over California’s voter rolls have been unsuccessful since the start of Trump’s second term.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We are nineteen days away from the last day of voting. Six million ballots have already been cast. This is not a good faith effort based on the timing,” said David Becker, who heads the nonpartisan Center for Election Innovation and Research.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Attorney General Todd Blanche said the 20,000 individuals were flagged as likely noncitizens by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and the investigative arm of the Department of Homeland Security.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We provided California an opportunity to self-correct its records, and we requested that it segregate the suspected illegal ballots for the upcoming election,” Blanche said in a statement. “California has refused to comply and intends to facilitate noncitizens in voting, which is a violation of federal law.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In a statement, Logan said Los Angeles County election officials did not try accessing the thumb drive because it didn’t meet the registrar’s security standards.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>After McCotter sent the letters to Weber and Logan, California Attorney General Rob Bonta denounced the Trump administration for taking such a step while voters across the state are already filling out \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12103647/dropbox-near-me-san-francisco-bay-area-find-my-polling-place-election-day-voter-guide-california-midterm-elections-2026-vote-for-governor\">vote-by-mail ballots\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Every count, recount, hand count, lawsuit, and audit has found that there’s no widespread voter fraud in the U.S.,” Bonta wrote in a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/AGRobBonta/status/2110834245312839757\">post\u003c/a> on X, responding to the lawsuit. “The Trump Admin’s last-minute demands are meritless, and we look forward to making our case in court.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>On Thursday, Weber’s office released a response to McCotter’s letter in which the state’s top elections official said she aimed “to set the record straight.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She noted “serious doubts” about the accuracy of the list as well as an earlier claim from DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin that over 190,000 registered California voters “may be” noncitizens. California has yet to receive any response to a request for the data and methodology behind those claims, Weber said, noting that courts have found the federal government’s citizenship records to be unreliable.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“If the federal government possesses proof that certain registered voters in California are ineligible, we will welcome the opportunity to review that evidence and any supporting data or methodology,” Weber wrote in her letter to McCotter. “However, I will not disenfranchise thousands of Californians—or order any county elections official to do so—based solely upon an unsupported and likely inaccurate ‘belie[f]’ that certain voters are ‘likely’ noncitizens.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Democratic Sen. Alex Padilla joined other California officials in labeling the lawsuit an attempt at election interference.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We’ve seen this coming: Donald Trump’s Department of Justice with no authority is now actively trying to interfere in the 2026 elections and strong-arm California into purging names from our voter rolls and blocking mail ballots based purely on vague allegations less than three weeks before Election Day,” Padilla said in a statement Thursday. “This lawsuit has no legal basis or evidence behind it and is nothing more than a blatant abuse of power designed to sow distrust in our elections and threaten Americans’ right to vote.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/GettyImages-2285787606-scaled-e1791586238561.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12091600\"/>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">U.S. President Donald Trump addresses the nation from the East Room of the White House on July 16, 2026, in Washington, D.C. (Saul Loeb/Pool via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Department of Justice’s demands come after most California counties already began mailing ballots to voters last week. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“California’s voter lists are public, and this administration has had 21 months with total control of the federal government to review those public lists. … One must question why the DOJ would violate its own rules about investigating elections close to Election Day, and over a week after they knew the state had already mailed ballots out, particularly when their past claims have been full of errors,” Becker said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>It wasn’t immediately clear whether any other county elections offices received similar letters from the Trump administration, though several Northern California counties contacted by KQED had not as of Wednesday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Unless we hear otherwise from the California Secretary of State, there will be no changes to Vote-by-Mail procedures in Sonoma County for the Nov. 3, 2026, General Election,” Wendy Hudson, deputy chief registrar of voters for Sonoma County, said in a statement to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Officials in Marin, Sonoma, Contra Costa, Solano and Yolo counties also said they hadn’t received any communication from the federal government demanding proof of citizenship for the voters on their rolls.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Registration data is cross-checked at the state level, with other state and federal agencies to ensure that only eligible people are registered,” Hudson said. “If someone does not confirm on a voter registration application that they are a U.S. citizen, we would not process their voter registration application.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/mlagos\">Marisa Lagos\u003c/a>\u003c/em> \u003cem>and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ibloom\">Izzy Bloom\u003c/a> contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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Those charges carried a maximum of two years in prison.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Central to the weeklong trial was video evidence of the confrontation taken from multiple angles, shown numerous times in court. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>It shows around nine to 10 protesters outside the field office garage as two vans are escorted out by around 20 federal agents, mainly with ICE and Federal Protective Services. After the vans depart, the agents return to the garage. Protesters are seen banging on the garage door as it closes, knocking it off its track, before an agent fires several pepper balls outside through the door. 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One officer picks up a backpack left by a protester, at which point Ranney runs back and pushes another nearby ICE officer. 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Those charges carried a maximum of two years in prison.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Central to the weeklong trial was video evidence of the confrontation taken from multiple angles, shown numerous times in court. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>It shows around nine to 10 protesters outside the field office garage as two vans are escorted out by around 20 federal agents, mainly with ICE and Federal Protective Services. After the vans depart, the agents return to the garage. Protesters are seen banging on the garage door as it closes, knocking it off its track, before an agent fires several pepper balls outside through the door. 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