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That is unacceptable in our city,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ortiz, with the support of other council members, is pushing to enact a local law that would require federal agents to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12054798/san-jose-joins-the-growing-call-to-unmask-ice-agents\">clearly identify\u003c/a> themselves and ban them from wearing masks or face coverings in most instances, similar to a state bill that was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12056972/newsom-signs-laws-to-resist-trumps-immigration-crackdown-including-ban-on-masks-for-ice-agents\">signed into law\u003c/a> by Gov. Newsom just days ago. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>A spokesperson for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement did not respond to a request for comment on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amador said that in her 43 years at the nonprofit, she has never heard of an immigration arrest being made on the property, and said it was shocking to everyone there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was startling. It was devastating to our staff to have one of our clients taken like that,” Amador told KQED. “We’re a big family with all of our clients and our programs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amador said the center has served as a deeply trusted community resource for decades, offering help to people in need of work, along with other programs for people seeking food assistance, classes and job training, laundry services, showers and other necessities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ortiz called the arrest a “disturbing event” for the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When federal officers conceal their identity or impersonate local law enforcement, it spreads fear, it spreads confusion and it spreads distrust across our neighborhoods. That is unacceptable in our city,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ortiz, with the support of other council members, is pushing to enact a local law that would require federal agents to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12054798/san-jose-joins-the-growing-call-to-unmask-ice-agents\">clearly identify\u003c/a> themselves and ban them from wearing masks or face coverings in most instances, similar to a state bill that was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12056972/newsom-signs-laws-to-resist-trumps-immigration-crackdown-including-ban-on-masks-for-ice-agents\">signed into law\u003c/a> by Gov. Newsom just days ago. It’s unclear whether immigration agents would abide by the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057530\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057530\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250924-SJICE-JG-2_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250924-SJICE-JG-2_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250924-SJICE-JG-2_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250924-SJICE-JG-2_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rose Amador, the retiring president and CEO of nonprofit ConXión to Community, speaks during a Sept. 24, 2025, press conference about an immigration arrest at the organization’s building. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ortiz and other local leaders hope to ensure residents don’t recede further from public life out of concern about immigration enforcement, noting the arrest appeared to be a targeted one, and that the day laborer center was not raided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Socorro Montaño, a co-director of the nonprofit Latinos United for New America, and a lead dispatcher with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12050993/a-day-in-the-life-of-san-joses-rapid-response-network-built-to-resist-ice-fear\">Rapid Response Network\u003c/a> of Santa Clara County — a coalition that works to verify reports of ICE in cities and provide legal support to people who are arrested — said the community is better protected when it’s organized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a critical moment for all local businesses and organizations to review their safety protocol. Employees should be trained to identify ICE agents, know when to call the Rapid Response Network, demand warrants and exercise their rights,” Montaño said during the press conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man who was arrested and his family are being assisted by an attorney and the staff of the Rapid Response Network, Montaño said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ortiz said he hopes the latest memo he and his colleagues are working on for immigrant support plans, in addition to past efforts to allocate \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043787/as-ice-fears-grow-san-jose-approves-1-5-million-to-support-immigrants\">more city money\u003c/a> for legal aid and other services, along with the de-masking law, will help residents see their local officials are working to protect them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San José has always been a city of immigrants. Our immigrant neighbors built this city, they keep our economy moving…and they enrich every part of our culture,” Ortiz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If our residents are not safe, our entire city suffers. We cannot allow this fear to define our city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Officials are raising dire concerns after federal \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/immigration\">immigration\u003c/a> officers detained a man inside an Alameda County courthouse for the first time last week, according to the public defender’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The arrest would appear to be illegal under a California law passed during President Trump’s first term. It marks the latest in a series of escalations by an emboldened Immigration and Customs Enforcement as the agency aims to carry out Trump’s mass deportation agenda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ICE raids at our courthouses must stop immediately,” Public Defender Brendon Woods said in a statement. “People who follow a judge’s orders to attend court should not have to fear federal agents kidnapping them and dragging them away to detention centers. Our democracy cannot function if this continues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A client of the public defender’s office was detained in the hallways of Wiley Manuel Courthouse in Oakland on Sept. 15, Woods said Monday. Two plainclothes agents who said they worked for ICE reportedly ushered him into an unmarked vehicle and took him to a detention center, where he remains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The public defender’s office did not disclose any details of the client’s pending case or say whether or not the man had legal status in the U.S. He does not appear to have any criminal convictions, according to the office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11357784\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11357784\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24598_GettyImages-492659324-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24598_GettyImages-492659324-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24598_GettyImages-492659324-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24598_GettyImages-492659324-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24598_GettyImages-492659324-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24598_GettyImages-492659324-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24598_GettyImages-492659324-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24598_GettyImages-492659324-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24598_GettyImages-492659324-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24598_GettyImages-492659324-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man is detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents early on Oct. 14, 2015, in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(John Moore/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>ICE has been making \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041473/unprecedented-ice-officers-operating-inside-bay-area-immigration-courts-lawyers-say\">previously unprecedented arrests\u003c/a> at California’s immigration courthouses — controlled by the federal government — since the spring, but arrests in state courts are still much more rare and, in most cases, illegal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California legislators barred immigration enforcement officers from conducting arrests inside state courthouses in most cases in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12057278/california-law-forbids-ice-from-making-arrests-at-courthouses-officers-are-showing-up-anyway\">\u003cem>CalMatters\u003c/em> report\u003c/a> found that in some jurisdictions, ICE has been skirting these rules in recent months by waiting just outside the buildings, where the legality of conducting an arrest is more hazy. But Tuesday’s arrest inside the Alameda County Superior Court building is a clearer violation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a judge called the man’s case and issued him a new court date, he reportedly stepped into the hall while his public defender remained inside the courtroom. He was arrested in the hallway, according to the public defender’s office.[aside postID=news_12057278 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/calmatters_091825_Fresno-Courthouse_LV_10.jpg']There’s only been one other known instance of an arrest inside a courthouse in California this year, according to the \u003cem>CalMatters \u003c/em>report. ICE agents arrested a person inside the Oroville courthouse in Butte County on July 28.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both actions appear to directly violate the 2019 law, which says that if people fear they will be arrested while attending judicial proceedings, they will be less likely to show up, threatening the function of California’s government and Californians’ rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the immigration crackdown of Trump’s first term, the state prohibited law enforcement agencies from making civil arrests, including immigration arrests, in courthouses when people are attending a court proceeding or conducting other legal business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one should be punished for obeying a court’s request for a personal appearance,” said Alameda County deputy public defender Raha Jorjani, who supervises the office’s immigration unit. “By appearing before the criminal court, our client was obeying the rules. This is about more than one arrest. It’s about whether we are building a system rooted in justice — or one rooted in fear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t immediately clear what legal action the state or county could take over the apparent violation of California law, but Woods said he would work with the sheriff, district attorney and local judges to protect the county’s courts from future ICE action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He called on the agencies to commit to not cooperating with ICE and notifying each other if they learn of planned enforcement near a courthouse or jail in the county — policies included in many local sanctuary ordinances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Alameda County does not have a countywide ordinance, it adheres to California’s sanctuary state law, and multiple cities, including Oakland, have their own sanctuary ordinances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Woods also asked that the county post signage requiring ICE and law enforcement officers to identify themselves upon entering courthouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We cannot allow a racist, authoritarian regime to interfere with our local courts like this,” he said. “It’s time to pick a side. 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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>Jennifer isn’t saying her brother is a saint. Far from it. He was convicted of domestic violence last year and entered a one-year intervention program. He graduated on July 23 in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/fresno\">Fresno\u003c/a> County courtroom, where a judge told him he had done a good job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minutes later, while leaving the courthouse, five men and one woman in plain clothes approached him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Someone came up to him, got in his face and said his name,” said Jennifer, who did not want CalMatters to use her last name because she was concerned about immigration enforcement agents targeting other relatives. “And they grabbed him, and I tried to get between them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her brother, who is undocumented, didn’t provide them with an identification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They shoved him in this car, which was a plain, beat-up van,” Jennifer said. “Then one of them asked if they should wait for ‘the other guy,’ and a different person said ‘we’re good with this one,’ like he was just part of their quota that day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her brother is already back in Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11658200\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11658200 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A man is detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), agents early on October 14, 2015 in Los Angeles, California.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man is detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents early on Oct. 14, 2015, in Los Angeles, California. \u003ccite>(John Moore/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Social media is awash with videos of federal agents making arrests at immigration court hearings, which are on federal property, inside federal courthouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s different about the detention of Jennifer’s brother is that it took place on the grounds of a state courthouse. Local media have reported the detention of at least two dozen other people on the grounds of California court buildings in \u003ca href=\"https://www.modbee.com/news/local/article311886762.html\">Stanislaus\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article311556058.html\">Glenn\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/la-county-judge-denounces-ice-arrest-outside-downtown-courthouse/\">Los Angeles\u003c/a> and Fresno counties, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/08/08/nx-s1-5496530/legal-experts-ice-criminal-courts-a-slower-path-to-justice\">NPR reports\u003c/a> federal immigration detentions in state courthouses across the country, from the Chicago suburbs to a county south of Boston.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the last Trump administration, California Democrats were so concerned about ICE making arrests at superior court buildings and potentially discouraging witnesses from testifying that they \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB668\">passed a law to forbid that kind of enforcement\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_12055651 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/TravisAirForceBaseGetty3-1020x603.jpg']Picking people up at a courthouse can have a “potential chilling effect” on witnesses, victims and even suspects who are afraid to show up for court, California Supreme Court Chief Justice Patricia Guerrero \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.courts.ca.gov/news/california-chief-justice-issues-statement-immigration-enforcement-california-courthouses\">said earlier this summer.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Making courthouses a focus of immigration enforcement hinders, rather than helps, the administration of justice by deterring witnesses and victims from coming forward and discouraging individuals from asserting their rights,” Guerrero said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By waiting outside the courthouse, immigration agents appear to be complying with California law, though it’s unclear whether the word “courthouse” in the law includes the grounds outside the courthouse. Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office wouldn’t provide what it a spokesperson called “legal analysis” of those actions when CalMatters asked about them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at least one immigration enforcement action was a clear violation of state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Butte County, immigration enforcement agents conducted an operation inside the county’s Oroville courthouse on July 28. State law forbids civil arrests “in a courthouse while attending a court proceeding or having legal business in the courthouse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12056765\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12056765 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250715-ImmigrationCourtProtests-16-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250715-ImmigrationCourtProtests-16-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250715-ImmigrationCourtProtests-16-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250715-ImmigrationCourtProtests-16-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supporters rally outside the U.S. District Court in San Francisco on July 15, 2025, calling on ICE to release a person ahead of a preliminary injunction hearing. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“As far as the court is aware, ICE had not conducted enforcement actions inside one of its courthouses prior to Monday, July 28th,” Butte County Superior Court executive officer Sharif Elmallah said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The court is concerned by the potential chilling effect and other potential adverse impacts on participation in the legal system that may occur due to these enforcement actions being conducted in and around courthouses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As with the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/09/newsom-new-immigration-laws/\">package of bills\u003c/a> Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Saturday meant to keep immigration enforcement agents out of schools and hospitals, it’s unclear what California law enforcement can actually do to enforce the law forbidding immigration agents from making arrests inside courthouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Justice Department’s \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/immigrant#resources\">guidance to state courthouses\u003c/a> provides some latitude to immigration enforcement agents. They may make arrests inside a courthouse if the case involves a national security threat, someone’s life is in danger, evidence is in danger or agents are in “hot pursuit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Failing all of that, under California law, immigration agents can enter a courthouse to detain someone whom they believe poses a danger to public safety if they can’t find an alternate location and they have the approval of a federal immigration enforcement supervisor.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>ICE defends courthouse arrests\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jennifer believes immigration agents ran her brother’s name through their own database when it was posted on the Fresno County Superior Court’s public online court docket, then waited for him to appear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to questions from CalMatters, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement responded with a July quote from a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson, which asserted the agency’s right to make arrests of “a lawbreaker where you find them.” The spokesperson also said the arrests are safer for immigration agents, since the people they’re arresting have been through security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046907\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12046907 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/IMG_1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/IMG_1067.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/IMG_1067-2000x1500.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/IMG_1067-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/IMG_1067-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/IMG_1067-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">ICE presence in immigration courts. \u003ccite>(Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Policies on courthouse arrests have seesawed through Democratic and Republican administrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Obama administration in 2011 \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/doclib/ero-outreach/pdf/10029.2-policy.pdf\">designated schools, hospitals and religious buildings\u003c/a> as “sensitive locations” where immigration agents need permission to operate. ICE at the time said the list of sensitive locations was longer than those three types of places and urged agents to get permission from higher-ups before making arrests at any organization assisting “victims of crime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump undid that policy in 2018 with a directive instructing ICE agents to make arrests at state and local courthouses. They proceeded to do so, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/56303dd4fea7b23d9375c1400d997364\">even in California\u003c/a>. In 2021, the Biden administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/archive/news/2021/04/27/dhs-announces-new-guidance-limit-ice-and-cbp-civil-enforcement-actions-or-near\">reversed that guidance\u003c/a>, putting courthouses mostly off-limits. In May, Wired reported that the new Trump administration went even further than its 2018 directive, \u003ca href=\"https://www.wired.com/story/ice-quietly-scales-back-rules-for-courthouse-raids/\">explicitly removing instructions\u003c/a> to agents that they should respect local laws that would prevent them from arresting people.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Are immigrants avoiding court?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jennifer said word has already gotten out among the immigrant community in Fresno to stop attending court. Family members even tried to discourage her brother from appearing on the day he was detained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In general, people are just avoiding going to the courthouse, even after meeting with groups who inform them that there’s consequences to not showing up,” said Nora Zaragoza-Yáñez, a program manager for the Valley Watch Network, an immigrant rights group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043437\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12043437 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SEIUPROTESTS-22-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SEIUPROTESTS-22-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SEIUPROTESTS-22-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SEIUPROTESTS-22-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators rally outside the California State Building in San Francisco on June 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A Fresno County Superior Court spokesperson said the court hasn’t seen a change in the number of people appearing, but noted that in a county of 1 million people, such shifts among a relatively small population would be hard to notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Department of Justice said it’s aware of the courthouse arrests. As a former member of the Assembly, Bonta, now the state attorney general, was a co-author of the law that was meant to deter immigration enforcement at California courthouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are very concerned with the Trump administration’s actions, which make our communities less safe by deterring victims or witnesses of crimes from coming forward out of fear of getting caught up in the President’s mass deportation dragnet,” the California Department of Justice said in an unsigned statement to CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/09/ice-courthouse-arrests/\">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\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her brother, who is undocumented, didn’t provide them with an identification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They shoved him in this car, which was a plain, beat-up van,” Jennifer said. “Then one of them asked if they should wait for ‘the other guy,’ and a different person said ‘we’re good with this one,’ like he was just part of their quota that day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her brother is already back in Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11658200\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11658200 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A man is detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), agents early on October 14, 2015 in Los Angeles, California.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man is detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents early on Oct. 14, 2015, in Los Angeles, California. \u003ccite>(John Moore/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Social media is awash with videos of federal agents making arrests at immigration court hearings, which are on federal property, inside federal courthouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s different about the detention of Jennifer’s brother is that it took place on the grounds of a state courthouse. Local media have reported the detention of at least two dozen other people on the grounds of California court buildings in \u003ca href=\"https://www.modbee.com/news/local/article311886762.html\">Stanislaus\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article311556058.html\">Glenn\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/la-county-judge-denounces-ice-arrest-outside-downtown-courthouse/\">Los Angeles\u003c/a> and Fresno counties, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/08/08/nx-s1-5496530/legal-experts-ice-criminal-courts-a-slower-path-to-justice\">NPR reports\u003c/a> federal immigration detentions in state courthouses across the country, from the Chicago suburbs to a county south of Boston.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the last Trump administration, California Democrats were so concerned about ICE making arrests at superior court buildings and potentially discouraging witnesses from testifying that they \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB668\">passed a law to forbid that kind of enforcement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Picking people up at a courthouse can have a “potential chilling effect” on witnesses, victims and even suspects who are afraid to show up for court, California Supreme Court Chief Justice Patricia Guerrero \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.courts.ca.gov/news/california-chief-justice-issues-statement-immigration-enforcement-california-courthouses\">said earlier this summer.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Making courthouses a focus of immigration enforcement hinders, rather than helps, the administration of justice by deterring witnesses and victims from coming forward and discouraging individuals from asserting their rights,” Guerrero said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By waiting outside the courthouse, immigration agents appear to be complying with California law, though it’s unclear whether the word “courthouse” in the law includes the grounds outside the courthouse. Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office wouldn’t provide what it a spokesperson called “legal analysis” of those actions when CalMatters asked about them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at least one immigration enforcement action was a clear violation of state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Butte County, immigration enforcement agents conducted an operation inside the county’s Oroville courthouse on July 28. State law forbids civil arrests “in a courthouse while attending a court proceeding or having legal business in the courthouse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12056765\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12056765 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250715-ImmigrationCourtProtests-16-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250715-ImmigrationCourtProtests-16-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250715-ImmigrationCourtProtests-16-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250715-ImmigrationCourtProtests-16-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supporters rally outside the U.S. District Court in San Francisco on July 15, 2025, calling on ICE to release a person ahead of a preliminary injunction hearing. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“As far as the court is aware, ICE had not conducted enforcement actions inside one of its courthouses prior to Monday, July 28th,” Butte County Superior Court executive officer Sharif Elmallah said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The court is concerned by the potential chilling effect and other potential adverse impacts on participation in the legal system that may occur due to these enforcement actions being conducted in and around courthouses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As with the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/09/newsom-new-immigration-laws/\">package of bills\u003c/a> Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Saturday meant to keep immigration enforcement agents out of schools and hospitals, it’s unclear what California law enforcement can actually do to enforce the law forbidding immigration agents from making arrests inside courthouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Justice Department’s \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/immigrant#resources\">guidance to state courthouses\u003c/a> provides some latitude to immigration enforcement agents. They may make arrests inside a courthouse if the case involves a national security threat, someone’s life is in danger, evidence is in danger or agents are in “hot pursuit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Failing all of that, under California law, immigration agents can enter a courthouse to detain someone whom they believe poses a danger to public safety if they can’t find an alternate location and they have the approval of a federal immigration enforcement supervisor.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>ICE defends courthouse arrests\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jennifer believes immigration agents ran her brother’s name through their own database when it was posted on the Fresno County Superior Court’s public online court docket, then waited for him to appear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to questions from CalMatters, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement responded with a July quote from a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson, which asserted the agency’s right to make arrests of “a lawbreaker where you find them.” The spokesperson also said the arrests are safer for immigration agents, since the people they’re arresting have been through security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046907\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12046907 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/IMG_1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/IMG_1067.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/IMG_1067-2000x1500.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/IMG_1067-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/IMG_1067-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/IMG_1067-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">ICE presence in immigration courts. \u003ccite>(Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Policies on courthouse arrests have seesawed through Democratic and Republican administrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Obama administration in 2011 \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/doclib/ero-outreach/pdf/10029.2-policy.pdf\">designated schools, hospitals and religious buildings\u003c/a> as “sensitive locations” where immigration agents need permission to operate. ICE at the time said the list of sensitive locations was longer than those three types of places and urged agents to get permission from higher-ups before making arrests at any organization assisting “victims of crime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump undid that policy in 2018 with a directive instructing ICE agents to make arrests at state and local courthouses. They proceeded to do so, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/56303dd4fea7b23d9375c1400d997364\">even in California\u003c/a>. In 2021, the Biden administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/archive/news/2021/04/27/dhs-announces-new-guidance-limit-ice-and-cbp-civil-enforcement-actions-or-near\">reversed that guidance\u003c/a>, putting courthouses mostly off-limits. In May, Wired reported that the new Trump administration went even further than its 2018 directive, \u003ca href=\"https://www.wired.com/story/ice-quietly-scales-back-rules-for-courthouse-raids/\">explicitly removing instructions\u003c/a> to agents that they should respect local laws that would prevent them from arresting people.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Are immigrants avoiding court?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jennifer said word has already gotten out among the immigrant community in Fresno to stop attending court. Family members even tried to discourage her brother from appearing on the day he was detained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In general, people are just avoiding going to the courthouse, even after meeting with groups who inform them that there’s consequences to not showing up,” said Nora Zaragoza-Yáñez, a program manager for the Valley Watch Network, an immigrant rights group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043437\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12043437 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SEIUPROTESTS-22-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SEIUPROTESTS-22-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SEIUPROTESTS-22-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SEIUPROTESTS-22-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators rally outside the California State Building in San Francisco on June 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A Fresno County Superior Court spokesperson said the court hasn’t seen a change in the number of people appearing, but noted that in a county of 1 million people, such shifts among a relatively small population would be hard to notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Department of Justice said it’s aware of the courthouse arrests. As a former member of the Assembly, Bonta, now the state attorney general, was a co-author of the law that was meant to deter immigration enforcement at California courthouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are very concerned with the Trump administration’s actions, which make our communities less safe by deterring victims or witnesses of crimes from coming forward out of fear of getting caught up in the President’s mass deportation dragnet,” the California Department of Justice said in an unsigned statement to CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/09/ice-courthouse-arrests/\">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\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003c!-- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ -->\u003c/p>\n\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>Federal immigration agents are more routinely showing up at California medical facilities as the Trump administration ramps up deportations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They may come to the emergency room, bringing in someone who’s suffering a medical crisis while being detained. They may wait in the lobby, as agents did for two weeks\u003ca href=\"https://lapublicpress.org/2025/07/ice-agents-glendale-hospital-waiting-to-arrest-a-patient/\"> at an L.A.-area hospital \u003c/a>waiting for a woman to be discharged. Or they may even chase people inside, as federal agents did at a Southern California surgical center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sight of these agents — often armed and with covered faces — makes many wary and may keep people from seeking care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Existing hospital policies guide operations when law enforcement brings in a person under arrest, hospital officials say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is nothing new to hospitals,” said Lois Richardson, vice president and counsel at the California Hospital Association. “We get inmates, detainees, arrestees all the time, whether it’s police, sheriff, highway patrol, ICE, whatever it is.” The job for hospital workers remains to provide care, she added, and not to get involved in disputes over why a person is in custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031986\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031986\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/082420_healthcareworkers_AW_sized_04-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/082420_healthcareworkers_AW_sized_04-copy.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/082420_healthcareworkers_AW_sized_04-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/082420_healthcareworkers_AW_sized_04-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/082420_healthcareworkers_AW_sized_04-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/082420_healthcareworkers_AW_sized_04-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/082420_healthcareworkers_AW_sized_04-copy-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A hospital employee enters Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Oakland on Aug. 24, 2020. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yet immigration attorneys, advocates and health workers have expressed concerns over the handling of some of these cases, both by immigration officers and by some administrators at medical facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Specifically, they’re worried about the application of protocols like visitation rules, about threats to patients’ legal and privacy rights, and about risks to hospital workers themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a level of privacy that we owe to patients and their families, and that has just been completely demolished with all of the involvement of ICE coming into hospitals,” said Kate Mobeen, an ICU nurse at John Muir Medical Center in Concord. “It creates just a huge sense of fear, not only in our patient population, but in our employee population and our nurses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Patients’ rights, policies face new tests\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Sometimes, when ICE has shown up at medical facilities with a detained patient, the result has been conflicting messaging about the rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On July 29, ICE agents took a man to John Muir Medical Center in Concord because he suffered an unspecified medical emergency while being detained outside the Concord immigration court, according to Ali Saidi, an attorney and the director of Stand Together Contra Costa, a local rapid response and legal services organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043496\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043496\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SF-IMMIGRATION-PROTESTS-MD-12-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SF-IMMIGRATION-PROTESTS-MD-12-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SF-IMMIGRATION-PROTESTS-MD-12-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SF-IMMIGRATION-PROTESTS-MD-12-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protestors rally in the Mission District in San Francisco in opposition to the Trump Administration’s immigration policy and enforcement on June 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Saidi arrived at the hospital as part of the response network, he said hospital staff told him that he was not allowed to see the detained patient, but that the man’s family would be allowed. Then, when the man’s wife arrived, “The rules had somehow changed, and they said no family visit,” Saidi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement shared by the Contra Costa Immigrants Rights Alliance, the detained man’s wife, who asked to be identified only by her middle name, Maria, said that when she later talked to her husband, he told her that he was so terrified that he passed out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My family and I went to the emergency room and we asked to see him and talk to him to make sure he was OK,” Maria said in the statement. “The hospital staff would not let us see him, and they would not give us any information about what was happening to him. They wouldn’t even answer my questions.”[aside postID=news_12053380 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/75ACE4D9-068E-4167-9BD3-CFF3A0BE597B-2000x1335.jpg']John Muir officials would not comment on the incident, citing privacy laws. But in an email, Ben Drew, a spokesperson for the hospital, said general policy is that “If a law enforcement agency indicates that visitation presents a safety or security concern, [the hospital] may limit or deny visitation to protect our patients, staff, and visitors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saidi said that when the wife insisted on getting information about the man’s condition, hospital security called the police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We understand that emotions are high whenever a family member or friend is in the emergency department or hospital,” said Drew. “The hospital only involves local police in circumstances when a patient or visitor’s behavior becomes abusive, disruptive, or threatening, and cannot be resolved through our own security team.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saidi denied that the family was being disruptive, saying that conversations with hospital staff and administration were respectful and no voices were raised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The atmosphere in that emergency bay was something like I’ve never seen before in my career,” Saidi said. “There was a chilling effect. Everyone was averting their eyes. You could tell the staff felt bad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple emergency department nurses told Mobeen, a local California Nurses Association leader at John Muir, that ICE officers were “very aggressive with staff” and staff were afterwards “emotionally and physically upset” by what happened, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s horrifying to not be able to tell patients’ family members how they are, what their status is,” Mobeen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the issue, Mobeen added, is training. Staff were not given adequate training on how to respond to any kind of immigration enforcement action that may occur at the hospital, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drew, the spokesman for John Muir, countered that the hospital has given guidance on its longstanding law enforcement policy and answered multiple questions since January about what to do if ICE agents show up at their facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Limits for ICE access, sometimes murky\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Last month, immigration agents occupied the lobby of Dignity Health’s Glendale Memorial Hospital, even standing behind reception desks, \u003ca href=\"https://lapublicpress.org/2025/07/ice-agents-glendale-hospital-waiting-to-arrest-a-patient/\">as photos that circulated online showed.\u003c/a> Protestors gathered outside the hospital, hosting rallies and press conferences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They were all there because agents had previously brought in \u003ca href=\"https://abc7.com/post/immigrant-rights-activists-rally-presence-ice-contractors-glendale-hospital/17038487/\">Milagro Solis-Portillo\u003c/a>, an immigrant from El Salvador, for medical care following her detention. They spent 15 days in the hospital waiting for Solis-Portillo’s discharge before transferring her to another hospital and then taking her into custody, \u003ca href=\"https://lapublicpress.org/2025/07/woman-ice-stalked-at-two-socal-hospitals-is-now-in-federal-custody/\">according to local news reports\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053903\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053903\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/HealthCareICECalMatters2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/HealthCareICECalMatters2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/HealthCareICECalMatters2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/HealthCareICECalMatters2-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People stand on the stairs at an entrance of Dignity Health-Glendale Memorial Hospital in Glendale, on July 17, 2025. Activists have condemned the ongoing presence of ICE agents or contractors in the hospital lobby where a woman was recovering from a medical emergency while detained. \u003ccite>(Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.dignityhealth.org/socal/locations/glendalememorial/about-us/press-center/statement-from-glendale-memorial-hospital-regarding-ice-july-7-2025\">statement\u003c/a>, officials from Dignity Memorial Hospital said they could not legally prohibit law enforcement from being in public areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s true, say legal experts: Waiting rooms and lobbies are considered public spaces in hospitals. But agents cannot move through hospitals without limits. Law enforcement officials are not allowed to search for people in exam rooms or other private spaces without a federal court warrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When agents bring in someone who is in their custody and needs medical care, the application of the law can be more murky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Richardson at the hospital association, how far an agent can go into treatment areas with a detained patient may be decided on a case-by-case basis. In cases where a detained patient is struggling or resisting, that patient may need guarding, she explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if law enforcement officers do go inside exam rooms, they may hear medical information while on guard. But that isn’t necessarily a privacy violation, according to federal rules. The HIPAA Privacy Rule, the law that sets privacy standards for medical information, \u003ca href=\"https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/guidance/incidental-uses-and-disclosures/index.html\">has a provision\u003c/a> that allows for “incidental disclosures” of information as long as “reasonable safeguards” are applied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The hospital will, and the doctor will make reasonable attempts to protect the patient’s privacy.” “What is reasonable is going to depend, again, on what’s wrong with the patient, how the patient is behaving, the nature of the circumstances,” Richardson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HIPAA protects the disclosure of medical records, which include names, addresses and social security numbers along with health conditions. State law also requires health facilities to protect this information. According to \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/sites/all/files/agweb/pdfs/immigration/healthcare-guidance.pdf\">guidance from the attorney general’s office\u003c/a>, health facilities should consider a patient’s immigration status confidential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, some disclosures are required if law enforcement can prove lawful custody or show an appropriate warrant. A federal court warrant signed by a judge grants law enforcement immediate access to information or to search a particular area, while an ICE administrative warrant does not require immediate compliance.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Health workers in ‘precarious’ \u003cstrong>situations \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Health facilities generally direct frontline workers not to engage with immigration agents, but rather to immediately contact security or management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One particular incident at a Southern California surgery center stands out, in conversation with health workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On July 8, federal agents targeted three landscapers who had parked outside of the Ontario Advanced Surgical Center. They chased one of the men inside on foot, according to a felony criminal complaint filed against two health care workers in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In videos of the incident posted online, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PW6Bysinn0\">masked agent wearing a vest labeled “POLICE ICE” \u003c/a>on the back holds a weeping man by the shoulder inside the center while several workers in scrubs stand by. At multiple points in the video workers ask the officer for identification; one worker says, “this is a private business.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two workers, Danielle Davila and Jose Ortega, tell the officer to leave. Davila moves between the officer and the man, saying “Get your hands off of him. You don’t even have a warrant.”[aside postID=news_12052815 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/gettyimages-91547950_slide-4d6100270cc91128d1beb27eca778a6dcd952acd-1020x680.jpg']Ortega puts an arm between Davila and the officer and says “You have no proper identification.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officer says to both workers “You touched a federal agent.” Then Davila responds, “I’m not touching you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davila and Ortega were later charged with two felony counts of assaulting a federal officer and conspiring to prevent a federal officer from performing their duties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week the felony charges were dismissed and both Davila and Ortega pleaded not guilty to a subsequent misdemeanor assault charge. A spokesperson for the U.S. attorney’s office declined to comment on the charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davila’s defense attorney Oliver Cleary said his client believed she was doing the right thing by asking for credentials and a warrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can’t just come in where people are getting medical care and whisk them away,” Cleary said. “She didn’t know who these people were. They didn’t tell her who they were, and as far as she knew this was a patient of the clinic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carlos Juárez, Ortega’s defense attorney, said arresting and charging health workers with crimes for asking to see a warrant and identification puts them in a “precarious” and “dangerous situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They did what they needed to do and what they had a right to do,” Juárez said. “What I hope is it doesn’t have a chilling effect on other health care workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Workers say additional training can help\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Around the state, health workers say they’d like to see management provide additional guidance on how to respond to such scenarios if they were to play out in their workplace. Some workers are providing training themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adriana Rugeles-Ortiz, a licensed vocational nurse at Kaiser Permanente Modesto Medical Center, has been leading “Know Your Rights” sessions at her hospital and in her community as part of her union, SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West. She said some of her coworkers have expressed anxiety over some of the situations they’ve seen play out in other hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because of my involvement with all the training that we have done to the workers and to the community, personally, I do feel prepared. I am not that confident that we have been able to reach the entire workforce within Kaiser to get them to the level of confidence to deal with it,” Rugeles-Ortiz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Douglas Yoshida, an emergency room physician at Stanford Health Tri-Valley in Alameda County, said additional guidance and training for workers at medical facilities could be of great value.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think as health care providers, we need to deliver good health care to these patients, just like any other patient, and we need to protect their rights,” Yoshida said. “I mean, personally, if someone comes in in ICE custody, within the limits of the law, I want to do everything I can to help [patients.]”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hospital in Pleasanton that Yoshida works in is located near the county’s Santa Rita Jail; staff, he said, have been used to a law enforcement presence. But the recent incident at John Muir Medical Center, about 30 miles north, as well as the criminal charges filed against the southern California surgery center workers have set people on edge, Yoshida said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Normally, health care workers have no reason to fear law enforcement,” he added, “but we’re in uncharted territory.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Supported by the California Health Care Foundation (CHCF), which works to ensure that people have access to the care they need, when they need it, at a price they can afford. Visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.chcf.org/\">www.chcf.org\u003c/a> to learn more.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2025/08/immigration-hospitals-workers-fear/\">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\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Existing hospital policies guide operations when law enforcement brings in a person under arrest, hospital officials say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is nothing new to hospitals,” said Lois Richardson, vice president and counsel at the California Hospital Association. “We get inmates, detainees, arrestees all the time, whether it’s police, sheriff, highway patrol, ICE, whatever it is.” The job for hospital workers remains to provide care, she added, and not to get involved in disputes over why a person is in custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031986\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031986\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/082420_healthcareworkers_AW_sized_04-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/082420_healthcareworkers_AW_sized_04-copy.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/082420_healthcareworkers_AW_sized_04-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/082420_healthcareworkers_AW_sized_04-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/082420_healthcareworkers_AW_sized_04-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/082420_healthcareworkers_AW_sized_04-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/082420_healthcareworkers_AW_sized_04-copy-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A hospital employee enters Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Oakland on Aug. 24, 2020. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yet immigration attorneys, advocates and health workers have expressed concerns over the handling of some of these cases, both by immigration officers and by some administrators at medical facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Specifically, they’re worried about the application of protocols like visitation rules, about threats to patients’ legal and privacy rights, and about risks to hospital workers themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a level of privacy that we owe to patients and their families, and that has just been completely demolished with all of the involvement of ICE coming into hospitals,” said Kate Mobeen, an ICU nurse at John Muir Medical Center in Concord. “It creates just a huge sense of fear, not only in our patient population, but in our employee population and our nurses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Patients’ rights, policies face new tests\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Sometimes, when ICE has shown up at medical facilities with a detained patient, the result has been conflicting messaging about the rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On July 29, ICE agents took a man to John Muir Medical Center in Concord because he suffered an unspecified medical emergency while being detained outside the Concord immigration court, according to Ali Saidi, an attorney and the director of Stand Together Contra Costa, a local rapid response and legal services organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043496\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043496\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SF-IMMIGRATION-PROTESTS-MD-12-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SF-IMMIGRATION-PROTESTS-MD-12-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SF-IMMIGRATION-PROTESTS-MD-12-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SF-IMMIGRATION-PROTESTS-MD-12-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protestors rally in the Mission District in San Francisco in opposition to the Trump Administration’s immigration policy and enforcement on June 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Saidi arrived at the hospital as part of the response network, he said hospital staff told him that he was not allowed to see the detained patient, but that the man’s family would be allowed. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>John Muir officials would not comment on the incident, citing privacy laws. But in an email, Ben Drew, a spokesperson for the hospital, said general policy is that “If a law enforcement agency indicates that visitation presents a safety or security concern, [the hospital] may limit or deny visitation to protect our patients, staff, and visitors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saidi said that when the wife insisted on getting information about the man’s condition, hospital security called the police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We understand that emotions are high whenever a family member or friend is in the emergency department or hospital,” said Drew. “The hospital only involves local police in circumstances when a patient or visitor’s behavior becomes abusive, disruptive, or threatening, and cannot be resolved through our own security team.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saidi denied that the family was being disruptive, saying that conversations with hospital staff and administration were respectful and no voices were raised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The atmosphere in that emergency bay was something like I’ve never seen before in my career,” Saidi said. “There was a chilling effect. Everyone was averting their eyes. You could tell the staff felt bad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple emergency department nurses told Mobeen, a local California Nurses Association leader at John Muir, that ICE officers were “very aggressive with staff” and staff were afterwards “emotionally and physically upset” by what happened, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s horrifying to not be able to tell patients’ family members how they are, what their status is,” Mobeen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the issue, Mobeen added, is training. Staff were not given adequate training on how to respond to any kind of immigration enforcement action that may occur at the hospital, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drew, the spokesman for John Muir, countered that the hospital has given guidance on its longstanding law enforcement policy and answered multiple questions since January about what to do if ICE agents show up at their facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Limits for ICE access, sometimes murky\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Last month, immigration agents occupied the lobby of Dignity Health’s Glendale Memorial Hospital, even standing behind reception desks, \u003ca href=\"https://lapublicpress.org/2025/07/ice-agents-glendale-hospital-waiting-to-arrest-a-patient/\">as photos that circulated online showed.\u003c/a> Protestors gathered outside the hospital, hosting rallies and press conferences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They were all there because agents had previously brought in \u003ca href=\"https://abc7.com/post/immigrant-rights-activists-rally-presence-ice-contractors-glendale-hospital/17038487/\">Milagro Solis-Portillo\u003c/a>, an immigrant from El Salvador, for medical care following her detention. They spent 15 days in the hospital waiting for Solis-Portillo’s discharge before transferring her to another hospital and then taking her into custody, \u003ca href=\"https://lapublicpress.org/2025/07/woman-ice-stalked-at-two-socal-hospitals-is-now-in-federal-custody/\">according to local news reports\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053903\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053903\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/HealthCareICECalMatters2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/HealthCareICECalMatters2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/HealthCareICECalMatters2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/HealthCareICECalMatters2-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People stand on the stairs at an entrance of Dignity Health-Glendale Memorial Hospital in Glendale, on July 17, 2025. Activists have condemned the ongoing presence of ICE agents or contractors in the hospital lobby where a woman was recovering from a medical emergency while detained. \u003ccite>(Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.dignityhealth.org/socal/locations/glendalememorial/about-us/press-center/statement-from-glendale-memorial-hospital-regarding-ice-july-7-2025\">statement\u003c/a>, officials from Dignity Memorial Hospital said they could not legally prohibit law enforcement from being in public areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s true, say legal experts: Waiting rooms and lobbies are considered public spaces in hospitals. But agents cannot move through hospitals without limits. Law enforcement officials are not allowed to search for people in exam rooms or other private spaces without a federal court warrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When agents bring in someone who is in their custody and needs medical care, the application of the law can be more murky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Richardson at the hospital association, how far an agent can go into treatment areas with a detained patient may be decided on a case-by-case basis. In cases where a detained patient is struggling or resisting, that patient may need guarding, she explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if law enforcement officers do go inside exam rooms, they may hear medical information while on guard. But that isn’t necessarily a privacy violation, according to federal rules. The HIPAA Privacy Rule, the law that sets privacy standards for medical information, \u003ca href=\"https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/guidance/incidental-uses-and-disclosures/index.html\">has a provision\u003c/a> that allows for “incidental disclosures” of information as long as “reasonable safeguards” are applied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The hospital will, and the doctor will make reasonable attempts to protect the patient’s privacy.” “What is reasonable is going to depend, again, on what’s wrong with the patient, how the patient is behaving, the nature of the circumstances,” Richardson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HIPAA protects the disclosure of medical records, which include names, addresses and social security numbers along with health conditions. State law also requires health facilities to protect this information. According to \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/sites/all/files/agweb/pdfs/immigration/healthcare-guidance.pdf\">guidance from the attorney general’s office\u003c/a>, health facilities should consider a patient’s immigration status confidential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, some disclosures are required if law enforcement can prove lawful custody or show an appropriate warrant. 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"content": "\u003cp>Earlier this summer, 17-year-old Kevin Robles was in his friend’s car, driving through their neighborhood in the San Diego County city of Oceanside, when he looked out the window and saw masked men taking someone out of a red vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robles asked his friend to pull over, and started live streaming what was happening on Instagram. His video went viral, getting more than 70,000 views.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A little over a week later, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement and other federal agents showed up at the Robles family’s door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was 5:55 to 6 a.m. Me and my little sister were woken up by loud bangs. HSI [Homeland Security Investigations] and ICE [agents] yelling and banging on our doors and windows,” Robles recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We heard a flash grenade being launched in my living room and another one launched in my hallway right next to my bedroom door. They were flying a drone inside.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053394\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/DSC02261-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053394\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/DSC02261-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/DSC02261-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/DSC02261-2000x1333.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/DSC02261-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/DSC02261-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/DSC02261-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seventeen-year-old Kevin Robles at his home in Oceanside on June 24, 2025. \u003ccite>(Aisha Wallace-Palomares/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Federal agents had a search warrant for Robles’s dad, who along with his mom, was taken into ICE custody. But Kevin, a U.S. citizen, and his 14-year-old sister were also handcuffed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a crazy thing that happened,” Robles recalled. “I opened my bedroom door and I’m received with 10 or 15 officers, agents pointing rifles at my face.[aside postID=news_12046431 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250612-NICARAGUAN-JOURNALIST-MD-01-KQED-1.jpg']Aisha Wallace-Palomares was one of the first journalists to interview Robles about what happened to him and his parents. After graduating from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism in May, she moved back to her hometown of Escondido to cover ICE raids in the North County area of San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her reporting on her \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/chularadio/profilecard/?igsh=dWM4ZXptNmdiZTB5\">Instagram\u003c/a> has been picked up by outlets like \u003ca href=\"https://www.marieclaire.co.uk/life/politics/los-angeles-protests-la-donald-trump-ice-california-real-life-frontline-stories\">Marie Claire \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://lataco.com/author/aisha-wallace-palomares\">L.A. Taco\u003c/a>, where she broke a major story about Adrian Martinez, a \u003ca href=\"https://lataco.com/us-citizen-arrested-walmart\">U.S. citizen arrested\u003c/a> and held in ICE detention. She’ll be starting a California Local News fellowship at L.A. Taco next month, and her work on this topic will be featured in an upcoming episode of Reveal, from the Center for Investigative Reporting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wallace-Palomares spoke with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/californiareportmagazine\">The California Report Magazine\u003c/a>’s host, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/sasha-khokha\">Sasha Khokha\u003c/a>, about her work to produce bilingual coverage about increased immigration enforcement in Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What follows are excerpts from their conversation, edited for brevity and clarity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the need for bilingual, culturally-relevant coverage of ICE activity in her hometown:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During my time in journalism school, I learned how important hyper-local news is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m from Escondido, which is a majority Latino community in North County San Diego, and there’s not a bilingual news source that covers local news. In fact, the local newspaper here recently featured an \u003ca href=\"https://www.times-advocate.com/articles/good-and-hard/\">editorial\u003c/a> encouraging the federal government to “Raid away!” saying that that’s “what the people voted for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053416\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/DSC01766-scaled-e1755897025233.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053416\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/DSC01766-scaled-e1755897025233.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protests against ICE in Oceanside on June 11, 2025 organized by @oside.uprise on Instagram, following the detention of man from the neighborhood. \u003ccite>(Aisha Wallace-Palomares/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I really wanted to \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNgnN5mSdNv/\">cover ICE arrests\u003c/a> happening in my community and make that accessible to a bilingual audience. I’ve been finding stories on community forums, Facebook groups. People DM me when they’re seeing federal immigration agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On verifying reports of ICE activity with federal agencies:\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nIn Kevin Robles’ case, I was able to verify that ICE had a warrant for his father, who ICE said had a criminal record. Both of Kevin’s parents [were] taken into custody [and are still there].\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the violence captured in a video a neighbor filmed of that raid, an ICE spokesperson emailed me that the agency “followed their training to use the minimum amount of force necessary to resolve the situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053415\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/DSC02155-scaled-e1755898165502.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053415\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/DSC02155-scaled-e1755898165502.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Robles family’s apartment on June 19, 2025, the day after federal agents broke multiple windows during an early morning raid. Family members said agents deployed flash grenades and flew a drone through the residence. \u003ccite>(Aisha Wallace-Palomares/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When I get a tip, one of the things I can do is \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLTfxT1PS2p/?igsh=bGd6dGRpaXI1M3F6\">go to the scene\u003c/a> and see if I can talk to any of the agents there. [Sometimes] there are no agency identifiers on any of the vehicles, or on the agents except for vests that say ‘Police.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, I’ve noticed that on a lot of community forums, people are sharing possible ICE sightings to warn community members that federal agents are doing roving patrols. But a lot of times people think it’s ICE and it’s not. That could spread misinformation and more fear. So it’s important to confirm these tips.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On reporting on community patrols, grassroots groups monitoring for ICE presence:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve done a few ride-alongs with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049134/immigration-enforcement-leads-to-political-activism-among-california-latinos\">Union del Barrio here in Escondido\u003c/a>, and with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/hrcoside/\">Human Rights Council\u003c/a> based out of Oceanside. They drive through the streets looking for ICE so that they can alert community members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The volunteers really know their city and really care about their community. 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"content": "\u003cp>After a third \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12052975/federal-officers-detain-protester-after-clash-outside-san-francisco-ice-office\">U.S. citizen protesting federal immigration enforcement\u003c/a> was detained in San Francisco this month, a coalition of labor unions is warning that the recent actions mark yet another escalation in Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representatives of more than five local unions rallied outside the federal courthouse where Angélica Guerrero was arraigned Thursday. Federal law enforcement agents arrested Guerrero on Wednesday amid an altercation outside the city’s ICE field office following the detention of an immigrant attending an asylum hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a union household. These are not the damn criminals this administration is talking about that they’re trying to clean the country of,” said Olga Miranda, who heads the Service Employees International Union chapter that represents janitors in downtown San Francisco. “These are hard-working people, taxpayers, Americans. This means that we all have a target on our backs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Family and friends gathered Thursday said Guerrero has been an integral presence at protests in San Francisco opposing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041473/unprecedented-ice-officers-operating-inside-bay-area-immigration-courts-lawyers-say\">unprecedented ICE detentions\u003c/a> at local \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047397/ice-officers-drive-through-protesters-trying-to-stop-arrest-at-sf-immigration-court\">immigration courts and field offices\u003c/a>, where officers have taken to arresting people attending mandatory status hearings and check-in appointments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was among a group of a few dozen protesters who faced off with federal officers on Wednesday, first at the immigration court on Montgomery Street, where they attempted to block ICE’s path to transfer the detained man the half-mile to their office on Sansome Street. Protesters initially blocked the court’s door, and later stood in the surrounding streets, urging drivers to stall their cars to halt their vans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053231\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053231\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250821-UNIONICE-JCL-01-KQED-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250821-UNIONICE-JCL-01-KQED-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250821-UNIONICE-JCL-01-KQED-KQED-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250821-UNIONICE-JCL-01-KQED-KQED-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angélica Guerrero reunites with her parents after her arraignment in federal court on Aug. 21, 2025, more than 24 hours after being arrested by federal agents. \u003ccite>(Juan Carlos Lara/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A few minutes later, after federal officers and about a dozen protesters traveled on foot to the immigration office, Guerrero was tackled, pepper-sprayed, zip-tied and taken inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates say they gathered at the Sansome Street office late into the night Wednesday, but did not hear about Guerrero’s whereabouts until about midnight, when they found out that she had been taken to Santa Rita Jail in the East Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those holding cells in Santa Rita Jail are barbaric,” Guerrero said after her release. “The walls where I was meant to sleep were covered in feces and blood.”[aside postID=news_12052975 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250820-ICE-ACTIVITY-JCL-03-KQED.jpg']This morning, their first contact with her was at her arraignment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was taken back and forth to different agencies over the last 24 hours,” Guerrero said. “Without a phone call, without being able to contact a lawyer. They could have shipped me to Louisiana; nobody would have even known about it until charges were filed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just moments before Guerrero exited the courthouse to cheers and sighs of relief, her father, Ernesto, spoke about immigrating to the U.S. more than four decades ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am the good story of America,” he said through tears. “This is not the America I met 40 years ago. And I believe that this is not a perfect place, but a place where you still have a chance to raise up a good family, have a decent life. But I am shocked at what has happened these last six months.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guerrero’s mother said that her fight was not over, but said she was overwhelmed with gratitude for the people who worked for her daughter’s release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether arrests like Guerrero’s are legal under federal law is murky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053226\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053226\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250821-UNIONICE-10-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250821-UNIONICE-10-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250821-UNIONICE-10-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250821-UNIONICE-10-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maria Guerrero, the mother of Angélica Guerrero, speaks during a rally outside the Phillip Burton Federal Building in San Francisco on Aug. 21, 2025, where labor leaders and family members condemned recent ICE raids and awaited the release of Guerrero. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While ICE is \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/sites/default/files/documents/Document/2017/16001.2.pdf\">barred from arresting\u003c/a> U.S. citizens, it has a \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1357\">directive\u003c/a> that allows officers to arrest any person who they believe is committing a felony “if the officer or employee is performing duties relating to the enforcement of the immigration laws at the time of the arrest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE did not answer inquiries for more information about the arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent months, federal officers have \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-07-23/protester-charges-essayli\">arrested citizens amid similar protests in Los Angeles\u003c/a>, and two weeks ago, two citizens were detained and held for hours after a separate protest at San Francisco’s immigration court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During Wednesday’s protest, officers also pepper-sprayed two people, including a reporter, who said it was unprovoked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don’t care about your citizenship status, they don’t care about whether or not you break the law,” Guerrero said after her release, referring to federal immigration officers. “At the end of the day, those with power do what they want, and the rest of us have to deal with it unless we organize and fight back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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Can Imperial County Keep The Industry Alive?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Some of the sweetest, largest sugar beets in the world are grown in the Imperial Valley. The region has nutrient-rich soil, an abundance of sunlight and \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/california-farm-families-gained-control-colorado-river\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">\u003cu>century-old claims to water\u003c/u>\u003c/a> from the Colorado River. Most importantly, the valley has the Spreckels Sugar factory in Brawley, which processes beets into sugar by the truckload.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the valley likely won’t be able to grow sugar beets for much longer. 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By the numbers, sugar beet and sugar cane farming together account for roughly 2% of the total crop value produced by the region’s powerful agriculture industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some elected leaders are holding onto hopes that they can keep the industry alive. 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