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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california\">California\u003c/a> lawmakers are seeking to target the deep pockets of for-profit contractors key to the Trump administration’s growing deportation campaign, amid outrage over the killing of U.S. citizens by federal \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/immigration\">immigration\u003c/a> agents in Minneapolis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new state bill would raise taxes on companies that contract with the federal government to run immigration detention facilities, which hold thousands of men and women in California. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1633\">AB-1633\u003c/a>, introduced by Assemblymember Matt Haney, D-San Francisco, on Tuesday, would tax operators’ detention contract revenue by 50% annually and reinvest those funds into services supporting immigrant communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first-in-the-nation bill aims to mitigate economic, emotional and social harms caused to the state as immigration authorities detain more residents, businesses lose workers and students skip school due to deportation fears, Haney said during a press conference on the bill on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will not allow these for-profit corporations to make hundreds of millions of dollars off of human suffering and family separation,” Haney said, flanked by Democratic lawmakers, gubernatorial candidate Tony Thurmond and immigrant advocates. “If you are going to impose this kind of terror on our state and on our people, we are going to tax you for the pain and harm that you’re causing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This comes as the fatal shootings of protesters Alex Pretti, an intensive care unit nurse, and Renee Macklin Good, a mother of three, have\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12071018/california-governor-candidates-denounce-ice-at-san-francisco-forum\"> generated intense backlash\u003c/a> in spaces as varied as professional basketball games, social media influencers’ baking feeds and Trump\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/transcripts/nx-s1-5688870\"> voter\u003c/a> surveys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement contracts with three private prison companies — Geo Group, CoreCivic and Management & Training Corporation — for about $560 million per year to run detention centers in the state, according to the California Immigrant Policy Center, a bill sponsor. The seven facilities currently jail more than 6,200 immigrants, ICE’s most recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/detain/detention-management#stats\">figures\u003c/a> show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12065169\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12065169\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/GettyImages-2240148392-scaled-e1769712035624.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fences and barbed wire surround the CoreCivic Otay Mesa Detention Center on Oct. 4, 2025, in San Diego, California. \u003ccite>(Kevin Carter/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For years, detainees and immigrant advocates, as well as the \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-warns-dangerous-conditions-california-city-detention\">California Attorney General,\u003c/a> have reported that the facilities have failed to meet ICE’s own detention standards, with substandard medical care, unsanitary living spaces, inadequate access to food and other serious problems. 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So far this year, six more detainees have died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexandra Wilkes, a spokeswoman for the Day 1 Alliance — a trade organization representing Geo Group, CoreCivic and MTC — declined to comment on the new proposed tax, but defended the companies’ records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For more than 30 years, contractors have partnered with both Democratic and Republican administrations to provide vital services at their request, including safe, humane housing, quality medical and mental health care, and respectful, dignified care for individuals navigating the U.S. immigration system,” Wilkes said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without the contractors’ critical services, she added, more immigrants would likely be held in overcrowded local jails, alongside potentially dangerous individuals.[aside postID=news_12069688 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/KernCountyICEDetentionGetty.jpg']“Contractors do not make arrests, do not decide the length of detention, and play no role in determining the legal status of individuals in their care,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under President Donald Trump, the federal government approved last summer an unprecedented \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069220/south-bay-rep-ro-khanna-horrified-after-visit-to-california-city-ice-detention-center\">$170 billion\u003c/a> over four years for the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, Border Patrol and other agencies. Those funds include $45 billion for building new immigration detention centers and $30 billion to boost enforcement and deportation operations. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12070519/california-senators-visit-immigration-jail-ahead-of-looming-ice-funding-bill-deadline\">Senate is now considering\u003c/a> a House-approved package that would send additional funding to DHS. The measure is largely opposed by Democrats, who are demanding more guardrails for ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kimberly Woo, a Bay Area community organizer, said her elderly family members were apprehended by ICE during their final interview to apply for permanent residency, after 20 years of living in the U.S. They were locked up in the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062774/conditions-at-massive-new-california-immigration-facility-are-alarming-report-finds\">largest and newest detention center\u003c/a> in the Mojave Desert, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Words cannot describe what visceral pain of seeing your elder relative who immigrated to this country to build a better life for our family, break down crying behind a glass screen window where it’s impossible to hug them and hold their hand,” said Woo, who works at the nonprofit Services, Immigrant Rights and Education Network. “No one deserves to experience the same inhumane pain, suffering, and loneliness that my loved one felt every day in that prison.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California legislation previously tried to phase out all for-profit prisons and private detention facilities, but was blocked by the courts. Still, the state has broad authority to tax businesses as it sees fit, including contractors enabling detentions, Haney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027566\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12027566 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-14-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-14-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-14-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-14-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-14-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-14-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-14-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assemblymember Matt Haney speaks during a press conference in Union Square, San Francisco, on Feb. 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He acknowledged the proposed 50% tax on the gross receipts from detention contracts (before operating expenses) would be much larger than most state taxes, and could threaten the companies’ ability to operate in the state. California’s corporate income tax is 8.84% on profits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they look at this tax and they say, ‘That’s too high for us to pay,’ then they can leave,” Haney said. “And certainly, we’re not going to shed any tears if that’s the outcome.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>States may not impose taxes directly on the federal government, but can tax the income of federal employees and contractors. In addition, taxes are often targeted to activities perceived as causing social harm to discourage the taxpayer from creating additional harm or to mitigate it, said UC Davis law professor Darien Shanske, who teaches tax law.[aside postID=news_12071374 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-1.jpg']“You can use the tax system to express values. And so, if you tax alcohol or tobacco or cannabis, maybe you accept that they’re going to be legal, but you have concerns about them,” said Shanske, who specializes in state and local taxation. “To the extent that California wants to express strong disapprobation … using the tax system to do that is not unprecedented or inappropriate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If AB-1633 is signed into law, the impacted companies would likely challenge it in court, as the tax would represent a significant blow to their business, Shanske said. The contractors may argue that the tax is in effect targeting federal agencies to curb the administration’s immigration crackdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Liz Ortega, D-San Leandro, said that while the killings of Pretti and Good were caught on widely circulated bystander cellphone videos, detention centers have continued to operate in relative obscurity, largely away from the public’s gaze. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/immigration\">Immigration\u003c/a> arrests and deportations quadrupled in the first nine months of the Trump administration as it sent thousands of federal agents and officers into cities across the country, according to a new report from the Deportation Data Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project, whose directors include a pair of University of California professors, found that federal immigration officers are now arresting vastly more people on the streets and are far more likely to arrest people who have not been convicted of any crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From January to October, arrests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement increased by a factor of four and the number of subsequent deportations grew 4.6 times due to expanded detention space and fewer releases, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The increase appears to be driven by a sharp rise in arrests like those happening in cities such as Los Angeles, where President Trump sent \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043314/california-to-sue-trump-for-sending-national-guard-troops-into-la-after-ice-protests\">a surge of immigration officials last June\u003c/a>, and more recently, Minneapolis, where federal officers have spurred massive protests and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12071172/after-second-minneapolis-killing-is-trumps-deportation-strategy-at-a-turning-point\">killed two citizens\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The scale of arrests that is documented in these data does rise and fall with the obvious expansion across cities that is taking place,” said Graeme Blair, co-director of the Deportation Data Project and a professor of political science at UCLA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071076\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071076\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012426-LA-ICE-Protest-TS-CM-01.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012426-LA-ICE-Protest-TS-CM-01.jpeg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012426-LA-ICE-Protest-TS-CM-01-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012426-LA-ICE-Protest-TS-CM-01-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators, gathering in support of Minneapolis residents following recent ICE actions, hold a vigil and rally in Los Angeles on Jan. 24, 2026. \u003ccite>(Photo by Ted Soqui for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Street arrests,” or the arrests of immigrants within cities and towns at places like grocery stores and schools or in worksite raids, are up by a factor of 11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blair said the rapid expansion of that practice is relatively new; traditionally, the majority of ICE arrests involved transfers of noncitizens from jails or prisons into immigration custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two biggest spikes in street arrests were recorded in June and October, when ICE launched its surge into Southern California and another in Portland, Ore., respectively.[aside postID=news_12071198 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251216-ICEPROTEST-33-BL-KQED.jpg']The data, which the Deportation Data Project gathered through public records requests, does not cover the administration’s latest surge in Minneapolis and St. Paul.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Homeland Security has framed its escalations into urban areas as an effort to “\u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2026/01/19/ice-continues-remove-worst-worst-minneapolis-streets-dhs-law-enforcement-marks-3000\">remove the worst of the worst\u003c/a>,” calling the immigrants it is focused on detaining “dangerous criminal illegal aliens.” But Blair said the data on detainees’ criminal records — and lack thereof — shows a different pattern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of arrests of immigrants who have convictions for violent crimes has increased by about 30% from levels under the Biden administration, while arrests of people with nonviolent convictions rose 100% and arrests of those without any criminal records are up 600%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The administration is saying that it is targeting what it calls the ‘worst of the worst,’ and this is another data point showing that just simply doesn’t appear to be the case,” Blair told reporters on Tuesday. Meanwhile, the data shows that those who are arrested are far less likely to be released, while deportation rates are increasing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055063\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055063\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250903-ICETRAINING_01023_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250903-ICETRAINING_01023_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250903-ICETRAINING_01023_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250903-ICETRAINING_01023_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Signs identify Taqueria La Gran Chiquita as a safe space for those at risk of deportation in Oakland on Sept. 3, 2025. Members of the Community of Fruitvale and East Bay Sanctuary Covenant gather to prepare for how to fight back against ICE. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Release within 60 days, which was already somewhat rare at 16%, has dropped to 3%, while deportation within that time period rose from 55% to 69%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The most likely reason for this is because the Trump administration has put in place new rules that have been challenged in court, often successfully, to bar release,” said David Hausman, another co-director of the Data Deportation Project and a UC Berkeley law professor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report said that the number of detention beds available has expanded as the administration opens new centers, like one in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12054544/californias-newest-immigration-facility-is-also-its-biggest-is-it-operating-legally\">California City\u003c/a> in the Mojave Desert, and the number of people arrested at the border actually decreases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This decline — which began under the Biden administration — is driven both by fewer people attempting to cross into the U.S. and “because the new administration began expelling nearly everyone who did,” the report reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, ICE also issued new guidance stating that immigrants who cross the border illegally and are taken into custody aren’t eligible for a bond hearing. In September, the Board of Immigration Appeals issued a policy backing up that change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070623\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070623\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020826398216-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" 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-caption-text\">A guard walks to the entrance of an immigration detention center during a visit by California Democrats Sen. Adam Schiff and Sen. Alex Padilla, on Jan. 20, 2026, in California City, California. \u003ccite>(Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It has been challenged in court, and in November, a federal judge in California vacated the policy, but Blair said he doesn’t believe the administration has been abiding by that decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some cases, immigration attorneys have been able to help clients get bond hearings and release by filing individual habeas petitions, but not all asylum seekers have access to representation, and the backlog of cases makes it difficult for attorneys to keep up.[aside postID=news_12070474 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260120-SFPROTEST00401_TV-KQED.jpg']Hausman said these changes are likely responsible for another major shift: a 21-fold increase in voluntary departures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We think there’s some pretty good evidence that these no-release policies are causing people who might have won their cases instead to give up and accept deportation,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also been increasing concern about the conditions within detention centers. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/immigration\">Immigration\u003c/a> arrests and deportations quadrupled in the first nine months of the Trump administration as it sent thousands of federal agents and officers into cities across the country, according to a new report from the Deportation Data Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project, whose directors include a pair of University of California professors, found that federal immigration officers are now arresting vastly more people on the streets and are far more likely to arrest people who have not been convicted of any crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From January to October, arrests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement increased by a factor of four and the number of subsequent deportations grew 4.6 times due to expanded detention space and fewer releases, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The increase appears to be driven by a sharp rise in arrests like those happening in cities such as Los Angeles, where President Trump sent \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043314/california-to-sue-trump-for-sending-national-guard-troops-into-la-after-ice-protests\">a surge of immigration officials last June\u003c/a>, and more recently, Minneapolis, where federal officers have spurred massive protests and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12071172/after-second-minneapolis-killing-is-trumps-deportation-strategy-at-a-turning-point\">killed two citizens\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The scale of arrests that is documented in these data does rise and fall with the obvious expansion across cities that is taking place,” said Graeme Blair, co-director of the Deportation Data Project and a professor of political science at UCLA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071076\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071076\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012426-LA-ICE-Protest-TS-CM-01.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012426-LA-ICE-Protest-TS-CM-01.jpeg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012426-LA-ICE-Protest-TS-CM-01-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012426-LA-ICE-Protest-TS-CM-01-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators, gathering in support of Minneapolis residents following recent ICE actions, hold a vigil and rally in Los Angeles on Jan. 24, 2026. \u003ccite>(Photo by Ted Soqui for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Street arrests,” or the arrests of immigrants within cities and towns at places like grocery stores and schools or in worksite raids, are up by a factor of 11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blair said the rapid expansion of that practice is relatively new; traditionally, the majority of ICE arrests involved transfers of noncitizens from jails or prisons into immigration custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two biggest spikes in street arrests were recorded in June and October, when ICE launched its surge into Southern California and another in Portland, Ore., respectively.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The data, which the Deportation Data Project gathered through public records requests, does not cover the administration’s latest surge in Minneapolis and St. Paul.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Homeland Security has framed its escalations into urban areas as an effort to “\u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2026/01/19/ice-continues-remove-worst-worst-minneapolis-streets-dhs-law-enforcement-marks-3000\">remove the worst of the worst\u003c/a>,” calling the immigrants it is focused on detaining “dangerous criminal illegal aliens.” But Blair said the data on detainees’ criminal records — and lack thereof — shows a different pattern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of arrests of immigrants who have convictions for violent crimes has increased by about 30% from levels under the Biden administration, while arrests of people with nonviolent convictions rose 100% and arrests of those without any criminal records are up 600%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The administration is saying that it is targeting what it calls the ‘worst of the worst,’ and this is another data point showing that just simply doesn’t appear to be the case,” Blair told reporters on Tuesday. Meanwhile, the data shows that those who are arrested are far less likely to be released, while deportation rates are increasing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055063\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055063\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250903-ICETRAINING_01023_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250903-ICETRAINING_01023_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250903-ICETRAINING_01023_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250903-ICETRAINING_01023_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Signs identify Taqueria La Gran Chiquita as a safe space for those at risk of deportation in Oakland on Sept. 3, 2025. Members of the Community of Fruitvale and East Bay Sanctuary Covenant gather to prepare for how to fight back against ICE. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Release within 60 days, which was already somewhat rare at 16%, has dropped to 3%, while deportation within that time period rose from 55% to 69%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The most likely reason for this is because the Trump administration has put in place new rules that have been challenged in court, often successfully, to bar release,” said David Hausman, another co-director of the Data Deportation Project and a UC Berkeley law professor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report said that the number of detention beds available has expanded as the administration opens new centers, like one in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12054544/californias-newest-immigration-facility-is-also-its-biggest-is-it-operating-legally\">California City\u003c/a> in the Mojave Desert, and the number of people arrested at the border actually decreases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This decline — which began under the Biden administration — is driven both by fewer people attempting to cross into the U.S. and “because the new administration began expelling nearly everyone who did,” the report reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, ICE also issued new guidance stating that immigrants who cross the border illegally and are taken into custody aren’t eligible for a bond hearing. In September, the Board of Immigration Appeals issued a policy backing up that change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070623\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070623\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020826398216-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" 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-caption-text\">A guard walks to the entrance of an immigration detention center during a visit by California Democrats Sen. Adam Schiff and Sen. Alex Padilla, on Jan. 20, 2026, in California City, California. \u003ccite>(Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It has been challenged in court, and in November, a federal judge in California vacated the policy, but Blair said he doesn’t believe the administration has been abiding by that decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some cases, immigration attorneys have been able to help clients get bond hearings and release by filing individual habeas petitions, but not all asylum seekers have access to representation, and the backlog of cases makes it difficult for attorneys to keep up.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Hausman said these changes are likely responsible for another major shift: a 21-fold increase in voluntary departures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We think there’s some pretty good evidence that these no-release policies are causing people who might have won their cases instead to give up and accept deportation,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also been increasing concern about the conditions within detention centers. Last year was the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/10/23/nx-s1-5538090/ice-detention-custody-immigration-arrest-enforcement-dhs-trump\">deadliest on record\u003c/a> for people in ICE custody, and reports have detailed \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/05/nx-s1-5413364/concerns-over-conditions-in-u-s-immigration-detention-were-hearing-the-word-starving\">overcrowding and a lack of food\u003c/a> at some sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration has also moved to expand capacity by opening new detention centers at former prison sites, many of which previously closed because of issues like \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/12/15/nx-s1-5591459/former-prison-ice-detention-centers-conditions\">inadequate staffing or abuse allegations\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California representatives have repeatedly raised alarms about one of those new centers, which opened in California City in August, owned and operated by the private prison company CoreCivic under an ICE contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046564\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046564\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/CORECIVICCALCITY1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/CORECIVICCALCITY1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/CORECIVICCALCITY1-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/CORECIVICCALCITY1-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Core Civic detention facility in California City on June 28, 2025. \u003ccite>(Saul Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>South Bay Rep. Ro Khanna said he saw \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069220/south-bay-rep-ro-khanna-horrified-after-visit-to-california-city-ice-detention-center\">“systemic neglect”\u003c/a> inside the facility when he toured earlier this month, and he has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12071297/bay-area-congressman-ramps-up-push-to-bring-ice-detention-conditions-to-light\">demanded a list of records\u003c/a> from DHS on health and safety conditions there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Adam Schiff said \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12070519/california-senators-visit-immigration-jail-ahead-of-looming-ice-funding-bill-deadline\">during a tour last week\u003c/a> that he heard from detainees who had been struggling to access health care for serious conditions, while Sen. Alex Padilla said he was walking away from the visit more concerned than when he arrived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These indiscriminate immigration raids — the heartbreak, the families separated from one another, the loss of life, as we saw in Minneapolis — that’s one trauma,” Schiff said after the visit. “When you walk inside these walls, you experience a different trauma. I am most particularly concerned about the medical issue, because that can be life or death.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>South Bay Rep. Ro Khanna is ramping up congressional Democrats’ push for accountability at the California City immigration detention facility in the Mojave Desert after making \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069220/south-bay-rep-ro-khanna-horrified-after-visit-to-california-city-ice-detention-center\">an oversight visit\u003c/a> this month that he described as “alarming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a recent letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and acting Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Todd Lyons, Khanna demanded that the Trump administration turn over records on health and safety conditions at the former prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with KQED, Khanna echoed the widespread condemnation of the administration’s violent immigration enforcement escalation, which has swelled after the shooting of Alex Pretti, the second Minneapolis resident to be killed by DHS agents this month. Khanna said the behavior of immigration agents in Minneapolis and inside ICE detention centers — where a record 70,000 people are now detained — is two facets of the same problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s lawlessness,” he said. “They’re mistreating immigrants on our streets, and they’re mistreating immigrants in detention. It’s violating the Constitution of the United States, and it’s violating our values.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six people have died in custody this month alone, according to ICE. That comes on top of 32 deaths in 2025, the highest number in two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049483\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049483\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-19-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-19-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-19-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-19-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Ro Khanna holds a town hall meeting at the MLK Community Center in Bakersfield on March 23, 2025, the first of three town hall events Khanna was set to hold in Republican-held congressional districts across the state. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the \u003ca href=\"https://khanna.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/khanna.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/ice-detention-letter-jan-22-2026-8.pdf\">letter\u003c/a> to Noem and Lyons, sent Jan. 22, Khanna demanded a list of records from DHS about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12054544/californias-newest-immigration-facility-is-also-its-biggest-is-it-operating-legally\">operations of the California City facility\u003c/a>, which is owned and run by the private prison company CoreCivic and began housing ICE detainees in late August. He gave them a deadline of Feb. 12 and specifically requested:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Contracts between ICE and CoreCivic and with medical providers;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Logs documenting how long it took to deliver medical care;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Logs documenting use of force and solitary confinement;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Logs documenting grievances filed by detainees;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Food safety and health inspection records;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Records of out-of-cell and recreation time.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>As a member of the House Oversight Committee, Khanna said he has a “responsibility to tell the country about what’s going on” in detention facilities, which are generally hidden from public view. KQED’s request to visit the California City facility earlier this month was denied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think people understand the inhumanity,” said Khanna, who visited the facility after constituents in his Santa Clara County district raised concerns about family members who were held there. “I didn’t understand it myself until I went and saw it myself.”[aside postID=news_12070519 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AlexPadillaAdamSchiffAP.jpg']In his letter to Noem and Lyons, Khanna said he was disturbed to see people held in civil detention treated as if they were “high-security prisoners.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Despite the fact that all visitors are subjected to invasive patdowns and escorts, detainees reported that everyone, even those classified as low-security, are required to meet lawyers and loved ones behind glass and treated as convicted prisoners,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most alarming,” he told the officials, “were the failures in medical care and grievance processing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Both a senior ICE official and facility staff admitted that urgent medical requests and grievances may sit unattended for weeks and are not reviewed on weekends or holidays,” he wrote. “Detainees described even longer delays and reported being placed in solitary confinement when they complained of medical needs — an extraordinarily troubling and punitive practice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE did not respond to KQED’s request for comment. The agency has consistently said it is detaining and deporting the “worst of the worst” violent criminals, highlighting specific people arrested in daily press releases. However, ICE’s own data show that, as of late December, just 26% of those in detention were convicted of any crime. Another 26% faced some sort of pending criminal charge, while 48% were accused of only a civil immigration violation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khanna’s oversight demands come as Democrats wage an all-out push to rein in DHS after the weekend killing of Pretti, who was filming immigration agents on a Minneapolis street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023111\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023111\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SchiffLofgrenCheneyAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SchiffLofgrenCheneyAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SchiffLofgrenCheneyAP-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SchiffLofgrenCheneyAP-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SchiffLofgrenCheneyAP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SchiffLofgrenCheneyAP-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SchiffLofgrenCheneyAP-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Adam Schiff, D-California, and Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-California, right, speak with Vice Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyoming, as the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol holds its first public hearing to reveal the findings of a yearlong investigation, at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on June 9, 2022. \u003ccite>(J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Senate Democrats are vowing to vote against an appropriations bill that includes DHS funding, raising the prospect of a partial government shutdown by week’s end. Last week, all but seven House Democrats voted against the funding bill, but they lacked the votes to stop it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several Bay Area Democrats, including Reps. Zoe Lofgren, Eric Swalwell and Mike Thompson, have signed on to \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-resolution/996/text\">articles of impeachment\u003c/a> against Noem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Raul Ruiz, a Coachella Valley Democrat, tried to make an oversight visit to the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in San Bernardino County on Wednesday but was turned away. Ruiz said he requested the visit more than seven days in advance, following a recent ICE policy with which he disagrees. He said ICE also refused him entry to the Adelanto facility in July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Sen. Alex Padilla, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12070519/california-senators-visit-immigration-jail-ahead-of-looming-ice-funding-bill-deadline\">made an oversight visit\u003c/a> with Sen. Adam Schiff to the California City detention facility last week, has introduced a bill to overhaul ICE detention and increase accountability. The bill, co-authored with Sen. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In his letter to Noem and Lyons, Khanna said he was disturbed to see people held in civil detention treated as if they were “high-security prisoners.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Despite the fact that all visitors are subjected to invasive patdowns and escorts, detainees reported that everyone, even those classified as low-security, are required to meet lawyers and loved ones behind glass and treated as convicted prisoners,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most alarming,” he told the officials, “were the failures in medical care and grievance processing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Both a senior ICE official and facility staff admitted that urgent medical requests and grievances may sit unattended for weeks and are not reviewed on weekends or holidays,” he wrote. “Detainees described even longer delays and reported being placed in solitary confinement when they complained of medical needs — an extraordinarily troubling and punitive practice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE did not respond to KQED’s request for comment. The agency has consistently said it is detaining and deporting the “worst of the worst” violent criminals, highlighting specific people arrested in daily press releases. However, ICE’s own data show that, as of late December, just 26% of those in detention were convicted of any crime. Another 26% faced some sort of pending criminal charge, while 48% were accused of only a civil immigration violation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khanna’s oversight demands come as Democrats wage an all-out push to rein in DHS after the weekend killing of Pretti, who was filming immigration agents on a Minneapolis street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023111\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023111\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SchiffLofgrenCheneyAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SchiffLofgrenCheneyAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SchiffLofgrenCheneyAP-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SchiffLofgrenCheneyAP-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SchiffLofgrenCheneyAP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SchiffLofgrenCheneyAP-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SchiffLofgrenCheneyAP-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. 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Raul Ruiz, a Coachella Valley Democrat, tried to make an oversight visit to the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in San Bernardino County on Wednesday but was turned away. Ruiz said he requested the visit more than seven days in advance, following a recent ICE policy with which he disagrees. He said ICE also refused him entry to the Adelanto facility in July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Sen. Alex Padilla, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12070519/california-senators-visit-immigration-jail-ahead-of-looming-ice-funding-bill-deadline\">made an oversight visit\u003c/a> with Sen. Adam Schiff to the California City detention facility last week, has introduced a bill to overhaul ICE detention and increase accountability. The bill, co-authored with Sen. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://Tune%20in%20to%20Forum%20to%20understand%20how%20the%20war%20in%20Ukraine%20is%20shaping%20lives%20%E2%80%94%20and%20the%20future.\">\u003cem>Listen to the Jan. 22 edition of Forum to understand how the war in Ukraine is shaping lives — and the future\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kyiv, Ukraine — They say time helps to heal, but months have passed, and Alina Skytsko still struggles to talk about Nov. 2, 2024 — the day her mother was killed in the Russian shelling of Kherson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were nine explosions that night. Alina, her two cousins and her mother were hiding in a bathroom in Alina’s grandmother’s house when, in a flash, everything was covered in dirt and dust. Wounded in both legs, the 16-year-old shielded her mother, not realizing she had already died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly four years after Russia’s invasion, which reached its anniversary in February, thousands of children in Ukraine have been orphaned, many wounded, displaced or thrust into adult roles as caregivers and witnesses. As the fighting drags on, their lives unfold across hospitals, courtrooms and temporary homes, revealing the long-term human cost of the conflict far from the front lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This reporting draws on interviews with orphaned Ukrainian children in Kyiv, Odesa and Uzhhorod, many of whom witnessed their mothers being killed by Russian forces. From Kherson to Kramatorsk to Mariupol, their lives trace the war’s long aftershocks — a generation forced to recover, testify and raise siblings long before adulthood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russian forces have also been accused of forcibly removing Ukrainian children from occupied territories and transferring them to Russia or Russia-controlled areas. Researchers at the Yale School of Medicine’s Humanitarian Research Lab say more than 19,000 Ukrainian children have been deported, with just over 1,200 returned, and warn the true number may be higher. The lab has documented thousands of children placed in institutions, foster care or adoptive families, often cut off from Ukrainian language and identity, as relatives search for them across borders and through courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070607\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12070607 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/Ukraine2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/Ukraine2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/Ukraine2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/Ukraine2-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An orphan boy hugs a soft toy as he waits on a train after fleeing the town of Polohy, which has come under Russian control, before evacuating on a train from Zaporizhzhia to western Ukraine, on March 26, 2022, in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine. \u003ccite>(Chris McGrath/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alina is one of about 2,000 Ukrainian children orphaned by the war, according to SOS Children’s Villages, a Vienna-based nongovernmental nonprofit that supports children without parental care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alina’s recovery and rehabilitation remain long and difficult. Books and online school classes no longer interest her. Both of her legs are skin and bones from the injuries. Another surgery is scheduled soon at Ukraine’s largest children’s hospital, Okhmatdyt. On New Year’s Eve, she wished the war would end, that she would walk again and maybe return to her war-torn hometown on the Black Sea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We met Alina on her hospital ward in September. The night before the interview, she said she woke to the howling air-raid sirens. Her father helped her into a wheelchair, and they took the elevator to the basement. Hospital staff treat air alerts seriously, after the Russian missile strike in July 2024 destroyed several Okhmatdyt buildings, killing two people and injuring 16.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alina said her wounds were painful. A nerve was damaged in her right leg, and shrapnel tore a piece of muscle from it. Her shoulder was still sore and might also require surgery. A metal plate had been removed from her right arm. She had dyed her hair purple.[aside postID=news_12066997 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/UkraineGetty1.jpg']“That is life now. It’s hard to think of the future,” Alina said, shaking her head. She is relearning to walk on her thin, wounded legs, one step at a time. She wrote “loser” on her cast, then corrected “s” to “v.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Questions about the future annoy her. There was only one thing that clearly made her happy, she said: music. “I am a music lover. Music helps. I prefer rap — the heavier the better,” she told us with a modest smile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November, hospital volunteer Natalia Zabolotna helped arrange Alina’s monthlong rehabilitation at the Koziavkin center in Truskavets, where Alina took her first steps. Wearing a hat with two furry ears, she likes to sit outside in her wheelchair, scrolling through social media or enjoying the rare sunshine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Alina hopes she will be able to walk better after the next surgery,” Zabolotna said in an interview. “We offered Alina psychological aid, but she firmly rejected it. For now, Alina sees the world mostly out of the hospital window.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sixteen-year-old Kateryna Iorhu knows what Alina is going through. She was wounded in a Russian bombing and witnessed her mother’s death on April 8, 2022, when a ballistic missile with a cluster munition warhead exploded over a train station in Kramatorsk, according to a Human Rights Watch report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kateryna, who goes by Katia, and her sister, Yulia, keep a picture of their smiling mother holding a plastic cup of tea, taken minutes before the blast as they waited for an evacuation train. The explosion killed and wounded dozens. Katia tried to crawl to her mother across ground covered with victims’ bodies, but could not — she was badly wounded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For weeks, Katia would not talk to anybody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070589\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070589\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/KatiaUkraineGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1444\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/KatiaUkraineGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/KatiaUkraineGetty-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/KatiaUkraineGetty-1536x1109.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hospital patient Kateryna Iorhu from Druzhkivka, Donetsk region, during the celebration of the 130th anniversary of the National Children’s Specialized Hospital “Okhmatdyt,” Kyiv. \u003ccite>(Volodymyr Tarasov/Ukrinform/Future Publishing via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I totally understand Alina not wanting to talk to a psychologist about her loss, her wounds,” she said. “But she should know that at some point it helps to make friends with the right psychologist, who she’d be able to watch animations with or discuss books, or play and chat about everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Specialists said the details of such tragedies may fade over time. “We try not to bother the orphans until they are willing to speak with us,” said Valentyna Lutsenko, a senior doctor at Okhmatdyt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lutsenko met Katia and Yulia in 2022, months after their mother was killed. Katia did not speak then. She moved through the hospital in a wheelchair or sat in her ward making bracelets of beads for doctors and nurses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We later met with the sisters in Kyiv’s Botanical Garden with their aunt and grandmother. With help from volunteers and private donors, Katia and Yulia, 11, live in a rented three-room apartment. Katia attends a design college in Kyiv, where she studies composition and painting and she ranks at the top of her class. Painting calms her, she said.[aside postID=news_12047685 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/UkraineMahjong1.jpg']But fear returns at night. “We don’t have a bomb shelter near our house, so we were just sitting on the floor in the corridor all night,” Katia said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since losing their mother, Yulia has spent hours online playing Roblox. To get Yulia away from screens, the family enrolled her in aikido classes. “Right now, it’s too slippery to go out — the roads are covered in ice — and we also have bad nights of shelling,” Katia said in an interview earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Programs and safe spaces outside the home, such as those offered by the Chabad Orphanage in Odesa, provide support for children coping with trauma. When we visited the Mishpacha Children’s Home, a Chabad-run institution that provides care for Jewish orphans in late September, Chaya Wolff, Mishpacha’s director, was playing with children on the playground, then mediated a dispute among teenagers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Children from across Ukraine come to the orphanage to learn Hebrew, observe Shabbat customs and live as siblings. Two children, ages 2 and 4, chased each other on the playground. According to Wolff, their father had nearly killed their mother after returning from the front.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their sister Sarah left this month to attend school in Israel. “Hopefully, the war in Israel is over soon,” Sarah, 16, said. “My parents abandoned me when I was 5. I feel for the children who lost their parents in this war in Ukraine. One day, I hope to become a teacher here and help Ukrainian children learn.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some Ukrainian children, the war has meant not only the loss of parents, but also being uprooted and taken far from home by Russian forces. Ilya Matviyenko was 10 when his mother, Natalia, was mortally wounded during shelling in Mariupol in southeastern Ukraine on March 20, 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070612\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070612\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/Ukraine4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/Ukraine4.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/Ukraine4-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/Ukraine4-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Civilians gather at the train station to be evacuated from combat zones in Kramatorsk, Donetsk Oblast, in eastern Ukraine on April 6, 2022. Civilians search to board the first available train headed west. \u003ccite>(Andrea Carrubba/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We were walking across our courtyard when a missile blew up nearby. We were both badly wounded,” Ilya told us during a September interview in Uzhhorod in Western Ukraine, the city he now calls home. “I believe that many more people should know what happened to us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His mother pulled him into a neighbor’s house. There was no hospital or doctor nearby. Ilya held his mother, listening to her hoarse breathing. She died in his arms and was buried in the yard the next morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ilya suffered wounds to his hip and legs. Russian forces took him across the front line to Russia-occupied Donetsk, where he spent nearly a month alone in a hospital. His grandmother, Olena, traveled through four countries to bring Ilya to Kyiv, carrying him out because he was too weak to walk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weeks later, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Ilya at Okhmatdyt and gave him an iPad. His case drew attention as one of the first Ukrainian children to be returned from occupied territory after Russia’s full-scale invasion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070609\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070609\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/Ukraine3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/Ukraine3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/Ukraine3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/Ukraine3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of the scene after over 30 people were killed and more than 100 injured in a Russian attack on a railway station in eastern Ukraine on April 8, 2022. Two rockets hit a station in Kramatorsk, a city in the Donetsk region, where scores of people were waiting to be evacuated to safer areas, according to Ukrainian Railways. \u003ccite>(Andrea Carrubba/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ilya now calls his new role “diplomatic.” He and his grandmother have traveled across Europe and to the United States. The war, his loss and his wounds have made him seem older than his years. Now 13, Ilya has new friends in Uzhhorod. They play in the courtyard, and Ilya likes football.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My friend Eldar already has a mustache — me too. I’m 5 feet tall, already taller than my grandmother,” he said proudly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ilya was among the orphans who testified at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, telling the world about atrocities in Ukraine. He told us he hoped to meet with President Donald Trump later this year. He sees his role as an “ambassador for Ukrainian children” wounded or orphaned in the war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a major mission, but I’m not getting carried away,” he said. “I’m just doing what needs to be done. I think it’s important to share this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elsewhere in Uzhhorod, near the banks of the Tysa River, there is a popular cafe called Lypa. We met there with Viacheslav Yalov, 21, and his three siblings in September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12067007\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12067007\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/Viacheslav_Yalov_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/Viacheslav_Yalov_2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/Viacheslav_Yalov_2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/Viacheslav_Yalov_2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Viacheslav Yalov, second from left, poses with three of his siblings — from left, Olivia, Nicole and Tymur. After losing their mother to a Russian shelling in Donetsk when he was 18, Viacheslav became the legal guardian of his four younger siblings. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Mykhailo Melnychenko)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Viacheslav’smother died from injuries sustained during shelling in the town of Verkhniotoretske in the Donetsk region in March 2022. She was 37. Viacheslav, who was 18 at the time, was left to care for his four younger brothers and sisters. He managed to evacuate himself and the children as the town came under attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His struggle did not end there. Viacheslav went through several court proceedings to win custody of his siblings. “Because the most important thing for me was to keep my family together. I’m doing this for our mother. She always did everything and anything for us,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After fleeing the Donetsk region, the family moved through Lviv, Kyiv and Dnipro, and finally Uzhhorod. For now, it is the safest place in the country, and Viacheslav works to protect his siblings’ sense of peace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His brother, Danil, is now over 18 and studies in Kyiv. Viacheslav cares for the younger three: sisters Nicole and Olivia and brother Timur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12067008\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12067008\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/Viacheslav_Yalov_1-scaled-e1765582964804.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Viacheslav Yalov hugs his sister, Olivia, one of the four siblings he has cared for since their mother was killed in a Russian shelling in Donetsk. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Mykhailo Melnychenko)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nicole loves dancing, especially jazz and funk, but said she wants to become a lawyer. Olivia plays the piano and has learned \u003cem>The Pink Panther\u003c/em> and several Michael Jackson songs. Viacheslav plans to enroll Timur in robotics classes.[aside postID=forum_2010101912711 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/Image-from-iOS-16.jpg']Before the invasion, Viacheslav studied medicine and completed two of three years of training to become a paramedic. He now works several jobs to support his family and volunteers with a charity, but his focus remains on his siblings. They have lunch together once a week. On Sundays, they share what they didn’t have time to talk about during the week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are all I have, and they are my motivation to keep going,” he said, gesturing to his siblings as they ate pastries and fruit tea. “Times are tough for everyone right now. There’s no time to sit around and complain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want the best not only for myself, but also for others,” he continued. “Ukraine will need to be rebuilt. The country will need young people who want to do something.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Maria Kostenko is a freelance journalist who has worked with CNN since the early days of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, researching and reporting on the war. She and the CNN Worldwide Ukraine team received the Dupont Columbia Award for broadcast, documentary and online journalism. She is an \u003c/em>\u003cem>International Women’s Media Foundation\u003c/em>\u003cem> grantee this year.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Anna Nemtsova is The Daily Beast’s Eastern Europe correspondent and a contributing writer for The Atlantic. Her Ukraine reporting has also appeared in The Washington Post, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, USA Today and Politico. She is a recipient of the Persephone Miel Fellowship and the International Women’s Media Foundation’s Courage in Journalism Award, and is an IWMF grantee this year.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“That is life now. It’s hard to think of the future,” Alina said, shaking her head. She is relearning to walk on her thin, wounded legs, one step at a time. She wrote “loser” on her cast, then corrected “s” to “v.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Questions about the future annoy her. There was only one thing that clearly made her happy, she said: music. “I am a music lover. Music helps. I prefer rap — the heavier the better,” she told us with a modest smile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November, hospital volunteer Natalia Zabolotna helped arrange Alina’s monthlong rehabilitation at the Koziavkin center in Truskavets, where Alina took her first steps. Wearing a hat with two furry ears, she likes to sit outside in her wheelchair, scrolling through social media or enjoying the rare sunshine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Alina hopes she will be able to walk better after the next surgery,” Zabolotna said in an interview. “We offered Alina psychological aid, but she firmly rejected it. For now, Alina sees the world mostly out of the hospital window.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sixteen-year-old Kateryna Iorhu knows what Alina is going through. She was wounded in a Russian bombing and witnessed her mother’s death on April 8, 2022, when a ballistic missile with a cluster munition warhead exploded over a train station in Kramatorsk, according to a Human Rights Watch report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kateryna, who goes by Katia, and her sister, Yulia, keep a picture of their smiling mother holding a plastic cup of tea, taken minutes before the blast as they waited for an evacuation train. The explosion killed and wounded dozens. Katia tried to crawl to her mother across ground covered with victims’ bodies, but could not — she was badly wounded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For weeks, Katia would not talk to anybody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070589\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070589\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/KatiaUkraineGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1444\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/KatiaUkraineGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/KatiaUkraineGetty-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/KatiaUkraineGetty-1536x1109.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hospital patient Kateryna Iorhu from Druzhkivka, Donetsk region, during the celebration of the 130th anniversary of the National Children’s Specialized Hospital “Okhmatdyt,” Kyiv. \u003ccite>(Volodymyr Tarasov/Ukrinform/Future Publishing via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I totally understand Alina not wanting to talk to a psychologist about her loss, her wounds,” she said. “But she should know that at some point it helps to make friends with the right psychologist, who she’d be able to watch animations with or discuss books, or play and chat about everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Specialists said the details of such tragedies may fade over time. “We try not to bother the orphans until they are willing to speak with us,” said Valentyna Lutsenko, a senior doctor at Okhmatdyt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lutsenko met Katia and Yulia in 2022, months after their mother was killed. Katia did not speak then. She moved through the hospital in a wheelchair or sat in her ward making bracelets of beads for doctors and nurses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We later met with the sisters in Kyiv’s Botanical Garden with their aunt and grandmother. With help from volunteers and private donors, Katia and Yulia, 11, live in a rented three-room apartment. Katia attends a design college in Kyiv, where she studies composition and painting and she ranks at the top of her class. Painting calms her, she said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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When we visited the Mishpacha Children’s Home, a Chabad-run institution that provides care for Jewish orphans in late September, Chaya Wolff, Mishpacha’s director, was playing with children on the playground, then mediated a dispute among teenagers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Children from across Ukraine come to the orphanage to learn Hebrew, observe Shabbat customs and live as siblings. Two children, ages 2 and 4, chased each other on the playground. According to Wolff, their father had nearly killed their mother after returning from the front.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their sister Sarah left this month to attend school in Israel. “Hopefully, the war in Israel is over soon,” Sarah, 16, said. “My parents abandoned me when I was 5. I feel for the children who lost their parents in this war in Ukraine. One day, I hope to become a teacher here and help Ukrainian children learn.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some Ukrainian children, the war has meant not only the loss of parents, but also being uprooted and taken far from home by Russian forces. Ilya Matviyenko was 10 when his mother, Natalia, was mortally wounded during shelling in Mariupol in southeastern Ukraine on March 20, 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070612\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070612\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/Ukraine4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/Ukraine4.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/Ukraine4-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/Ukraine4-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Civilians gather at the train station to be evacuated from combat zones in Kramatorsk, Donetsk Oblast, in eastern Ukraine on April 6, 2022. 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His grandmother, Olena, traveled through four countries to bring Ilya to Kyiv, carrying him out because he was too weak to walk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weeks later, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Ilya at Okhmatdyt and gave him an iPad. His case drew attention as one of the first Ukrainian children to be returned from occupied territory after Russia’s full-scale invasion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070609\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070609\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/Ukraine3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/Ukraine3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/Ukraine3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/Ukraine3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of the scene after over 30 people were killed and more than 100 injured in a Russian attack on a railway station in eastern Ukraine on April 8, 2022. Two rockets hit a station in Kramatorsk, a city in the Donetsk region, where scores of people were waiting to be evacuated to safer areas, according to Ukrainian Railways. \u003ccite>(Andrea Carrubba/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ilya now calls his new role “diplomatic.” He and his grandmother have traveled across Europe and to the United States. The war, his loss and his wounds have made him seem older than his years. Now 13, Ilya has new friends in Uzhhorod. They play in the courtyard, and Ilya likes football.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My friend Eldar already has a mustache — me too. I’m 5 feet tall, already taller than my grandmother,” he said proudly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ilya was among the orphans who testified at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, telling the world about atrocities in Ukraine. He told us he hoped to meet with President Donald Trump later this year. He sees his role as an “ambassador for Ukrainian children” wounded or orphaned in the war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a major mission, but I’m not getting carried away,” he said. “I’m just doing what needs to be done. I think it’s important to share this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elsewhere in Uzhhorod, near the banks of the Tysa River, there is a popular cafe called Lypa. 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After losing their mother to a Russian shelling in Donetsk when he was 18, Viacheslav became the legal guardian of his four younger siblings. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Mykhailo Melnychenko)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Viacheslav’smother died from injuries sustained during shelling in the town of Verkhniotoretske in the Donetsk region in March 2022. She was 37. Viacheslav, who was 18 at the time, was left to care for his four younger brothers and sisters. He managed to evacuate himself and the children as the town came under attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His struggle did not end there. Viacheslav went through several court proceedings to win custody of his siblings. “Because the most important thing for me was to keep my family together. I’m doing this for our mother. She always did everything and anything for us,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After fleeing the Donetsk region, the family moved through Lviv, Kyiv and Dnipro, and finally Uzhhorod. 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"content": "\u003cp>California’s U.S. senators expressed grave concerns about conditions at the state’s newest and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12054544/californias-newest-immigration-facility-is-also-its-biggest-is-it-operating-legally\">largest immigration jail\u003c/a>, and said they will not support an upcoming bill to further increase funding for immigration enforcement, after a visit on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sens. Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff spent four hours inside the California City Detention Facility, a privately-owned former prison about 100 miles north of Los Angeles, where they met with the warden and spoke with a number of detained immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They came away with stories of people in detention struggling to access health care for serious conditions — including a diabetic woman who was denied her medication for two months, Schiff said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The most frequent feedback we got was the inadequacy of the medical care they are receiving,” he added. “That’s frightening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The immigration detention facility, owned and operated by the private, for-profit prison company CoreCivic, currently holds about 1,400 people, the senators said, but it has a capacity for 2,560 detainees. It opened in late August, under a two-year, $130 million contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The detainee population has grown steadily, and \u003ca href=\"https://ir.corecivic.com/node/24926/pdf\">CoreCivic has said \u003c/a>it expects to fill the place early this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070623\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070623\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020826398216-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" 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-caption-text\">A guard walks to the entrance of an immigration detention center during a visit by California Democrats Sen. Adam Schiff and Sen. Alex Padilla, on Jan. 20, 2026, in California City, California. \u003ccite>(Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Previously, California leased the facility for use as a state prison, until ending its contract in 2024 as state efforts reduced the incarcerated population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While much attention has been focused on the Trump administration’s increasingly violent deployment of ICE officers in American cities, the conditions inside ICE detention facilities are a hidden side of the immigration crackdown, Schiff said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These indiscriminate immigration raids — the heartbreak, the families separated from one another, the loss of life, as we saw in Minneapolis — that’s one trauma. When you walk inside these walls, you experience a different trauma,” he said. “I am most particularly concerned about the medical issue, because that can be life or death.”[aside postID=news_12069782 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/USImmigrationCustomsEnforcementHQGetty.jpg']Deaths in detention continue to rise. Last year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/04/ice-2025-deaths-timeline\">32 people \u003c/a>died in ICE facilities, a level not seen in more than two decades. And in just the first three weeks of 2026, ICE has reported that six more people have died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla noted that immigration detention is a form of civil detention, typically used to hold people while their deportation cases play out in immigration court. It is not intended as a punishment for a crime and \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/detain/detention-management\">ICE itself defines \u003c/a>the custody as “non-punitive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the deficient conditions — including adequate nutrition, medical attention and mental health care — add up to a punishing environment, the senator said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m leaving here even more concerned than I was when I arrived,” Padilla said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Todd, a spokesman for CoreCivic, rejected charges of inadequate food, water, blankets and other basics. And he insisted that health care access is not a problem for detainees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our clinic is staffed with licensed, credentialed doctors, nurses and mental health professionals who meet the highest standards of care,” he said. “All detainees have daily access to sign up for medical care and mental health services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE did not respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Democratic lawmakers want to visit ICE facilities\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California’s attorney general and a state watchdog group, Disability Rights California, have both issued reports calling conditions at the California City facility “dangerous.” Earlier this month, Bay Area Rep. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069220/south-bay-rep-ro-khanna-horrified-after-visit-to-california-city-ice-detention-center\">Ro Khanna made his own oversight visit\u003c/a> and announced he was “horrified” by what he found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Khanna, the senators scheduled the visit more than a week in advance, following a recent requirement imposed by ICE. By law, members of Congress have a right to conduct oversight of immigration facilities unannounced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/RepRoKhanna/status/2008574388585578626\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, representatives have repeatedly been turned away from visiting detention centers over the past year, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/01/11/nx-s1-5673949/dhs-restricts-congressional-visits-to-ice-facilities-in-minneapolis-with-new-policy\">three Minnesota representatives\u003c/a> earlier this month. A challenge brought by several Democratic lawmakers in July is currently making its way through the courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla said Democrats shouldn’t be the only ones taking a hard look at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, especially given the rise in in-custody deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Republican majority in Congress, in the House and the Senate, is failing, absolutely failing — or refusing — to live up to their oversight responsibility to hold a separate but co-equal branch of government accountable,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>ICE funding clash looms over massive spending bill\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In July, as part of a reconciliation package known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Congress gave ICE an unprecedented $45 billion to expand detention over the next four years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/fact-sheet/big-beautiful-bill-immigration-border-security/\">effectively quadrupling\u003c/a> ICE’s annual detention budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those funds facilitated a swift expansion from 39,000 people in detention a year ago to roughly 70,000 today. They could potentially enable ICE to scale up to as many as 135,000 detention beds, \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/report/immigration-detention/\">analysts say\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12069309\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12069309 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/KristiNoemGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/KristiNoemGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/KristiNoemGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/KristiNoemGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem speaks at a news conference on Jan. 7, 2026, in Brownsville, Texas. Secretary Noem announced that the federal government would be deploying 500 miles of water barriers in the Rio Grande River. \u003ccite>(Michael Gonzalez/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the coming days, Congress is poised to take up a massive appropriations bill that includes additional resources for the Department of Homeland Security, as well as funding for other agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill is aimed at averting a funding lapse by a Jan. 30 deadline, months after the longest government shutdown in U.S. history last fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many Democrats have stated that they would reject any funding bill without restrictions for ICE, after an officer shot and killed Minneapolis protester Renee Macklin Good on Jan. 7. After their visit, Padilla and Schiff said they also opposed additional funding for DHS without restraints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070624\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12070624 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020827442794-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020827442794-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020827442794-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020827442794-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Adam Schiff, right, walks with Sen. Alex Padilla during a visit to an immigration detention center on Jan. 20, 2026, in California City, California. \u003ccite>(Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I don’t plan on supporting it because … I have yet to see any additional guardrails or protections [on] all the DHS activity that I’ve seen [is] out of control,” Padilla said. “We want to rein it in, and I haven’t seen that yet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schiff added that the agency needs more oversight, not more money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ICE has been given, in that reconciliation bill, tens of billions of dollars,” he said. “They have more money than the militaries of a lot of countries around the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>It’s been one year since \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">President Donald Trump’s\u003c/a> second term began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, those 12 months have brought \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061191/activists-federal-agents-clash-at-coast-guard-base-during-immigration-crackdown\">clashes with federal officers\u003c/a>, threats to local landmarks like \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12048367/can-trump-really-reopen-alcatraz-delegation-heads-to-island-to-make-case\">Alcatraz \u003c/a>and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027864/trump-moves-slash-presidio-trust-agency-runs-historic-sf-park\">Presidio\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12052452/you-cant-trust-anyone-in-oakland-fear-of-ice-raids-grips-day-laborers\">fear of deportation\u003c/a> to many immigrant communities and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060511/massive-no-kings-crowds-return-to-bay-area-streets-rebuking-trump\">plenty of protests\u003c/a> here in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the anniversary of Trump’s second inauguration, people across the Bay Area joined \u003ca href=\"https://action.womensmarch.com/calendars/free-america-weekend?page=4\">hundreds of walkouts\u003c/a> nationwide organized by Women’s March — a movement that began with the feminist protests in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds gathered Tuesday afternoon at Civic Center Plaza in downtown San Francisco to protest what organizers described as the administration’s violent actions in Venezuela, harsh immigration enforcement and authoritarian rule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karen Brooks came with more than a dozen members of her church, the First Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of San Francisco, each wearing a photo of a person who recently died in ICE custody around their necks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just a really sad story that people are being picked up and they’re not taken care of correctly and they’re dying in ICE custody,” Brooks said, adding that she “just wants the Trump administration to follow the law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070541\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070541\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260120-SFPROTEST00101_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260120-SFPROTEST00101_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260120-SFPROTEST00101_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260120-SFPROTEST00101_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ryan Van Soelen (left) and Tamika Bowman (right) chant against ICE in front of City Hall at Civic Center Plaza on Jan. 20, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Thirty-two people \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/04/ice-2025-deaths-timeline\">died in ICE custody in 2025\u003c/a>, the most in two decades, according to an analysis by \u003cem>The Guardian\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dressed in an inflatable frog costume — a symbol of resistance to immigration agents \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn987yqnee9o\">popularized at protests\u003c/a> in Portland, Oregon, last year — Judy Wedekind carried a sign that read, “ICE are the domestic terrorists.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m very inspired by the Portland frog. I think he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize,” Wedekind said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said attending the rally was her way of “doing her part to support the resistance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Participants said the rally was part of a broader effort to show solidarity and take action on issues related to immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to make sure that folks from Venezuela to Minnesota know that they’re not alone,” said Jane Martin, organizing director at Bay Resistance, one of the groups organizing the San Francisco rally. “We want to give folks here in the Bay who are outraged and upset about what’s happening a place to come and take action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070546\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070546\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260120-SFPROTEST00355_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260120-SFPROTEST00355_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260120-SFPROTEST00355_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260120-SFPROTEST00355_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A crowd protests against ICE in front of City Hall at Civic Center Plaza on Jan. 20, 2026, calling attention to immigration enforcement, U.S. actions in Venezuela, and what organizers described as authoritarian rule. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Martin said Tuesday’s march represents a new strategy in resisting the Trump administration, beyond marching and “symbolic action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ What we’re trying to move towards now is actually more non-cooperation and disruptive action that can actually prevent this regime from continuing to attack our communities,” Martin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martin pointed to a planned \u003ca href=\"https://www.iceoutnowmn.com/\">general strike \u003c/a>in Minneapolis on Friday, in protest of the ongoing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12070016/why-a-bay-area-attorney-says-immigrants-rights-are-being-violated-in-minneapolis\">immigration enforcement crackdown\u003c/a> by the Trump administration there, as an example. She said Tuesday’s walkout was part of “building up and flexing those muscles,” with a goal of organizing “as big of an action as we can this May Day.”[aside postID=news_12070016 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260115-JAMES-COOK-EF-01-KQED.jpg']Recent polling indicates that a majority of Americans disapprove of how U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent \u003ca href=\"https://d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/econTabReport_qsNv5iE.pdf\">poll\u003c/a> of U.S. adults by The Economist and YouGov showed that 47% of respondents said they believed ICE was making Americans less safe, as opposed to 34% who said ICE made Americans safer. In a recent Quinnipiac University National \u003ca href=\"https://poll.qu.edu/poll-release?releaseid=3944\">poll\u003c/a>, 53% of U.S. voters said they thought the fatal shooting of Renee Good by ICE officers in Minneapolis earlier this month was not justified, while 35% thought it was justified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Good’s death led to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069104/bay-area-immigrant-defense-groups-report-surge-in-support-after-minneapolis-ice-killing\">surges in support and interest\u003c/a> in rapid response and immigration enforcement legal observer training in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Francisco Herrera, the co-director of the Nuevo Sol Day Labor and Domestic Workers Center in San Francisco — which is co-organizing Tuesday’s march — called the killing a “public execution,” and a “deliberate attack to intimidate our communities right out of the workbook for dictators in Latin America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070545\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070545\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260120-SFPROTEST00340_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260120-SFPROTEST00340_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260120-SFPROTEST00340_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260120-SFPROTEST00340_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Francisco Xavier Martín del Campo wears a pin that says “No to Empire” at an ICE protest in front of City Hall on Jan. 20, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although Trump called off a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061209/lurie-trump-is-calling-off-plans-to-send-federal-troops-to-san-francisco\">planned immigration enforcement surge\u003c/a> in the Bay Area last October after San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie urged him to “rethink” the plan, Herrera said immigrant communities here are still living in fear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ What we’re seeing is people not willing to go out in the neighborhood because now you just need to be brown and you’re going to be picked up,” Herrera said. “ There’s a tremendous drop in the local economy because people are afraid to go to a restaurant or go shopping. So, it’s having a ripple effect that is harshly damaging our community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herrera said he is grateful for the wider community that has stepped up to support immigrant communities through programs like\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12055084/california-volunteers-stand-guard-at-day-laborer-corners-amid-ice-sweeps\"> Adopt-A-Corner\u003c/a>, which help protect day laborers from immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“More than a resistance, I think we are moving forward and pressing for democracy,” Herrera said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanika Mahajan, a co-organizer of the rally, said activists across the country are looking to places like the Bay Area and Minneapolis to see how they respond to the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So I think it’s really about learning from each other. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The recent killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement set off a wave of protests across the country. It’s also brought attention to the federal government’s efforts to stop people from recording federal agents in public. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Today, we’re sharing an episode from KQED’s \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/closealltabs\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Close All Tabs\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> podcast, where host Morgan Sung sits down with criminal justice reporter C.J. Ciaramella to find out whether or not you have the right to record ICE.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by the Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, San Francisco, Northern California local.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC3917605205&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003cb>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cb>Morgan Sung, Host: \u003c/b>Just a note, this episode contains references to violence and strong language. Listen with care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>[Audio from 50501_Key_Largo Instagram Account]\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci>Border Patrol Officer: If I continue to see you following me around, I’m gonna pull you over and arrest you.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci>Local Observer: For what? What law am I breaking?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci>Border Patrol Officer: You’re impeding one of the investigations, okay?\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung: \u003c/b>That was an interaction between a Border Patrol officer and a local observer in Key Largo, Florida, posted on Instagram on Monday morning. The officer threatened to arrest the observer for following and filming him, but didn’t say what law they were breaking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>[Audio from 50501_Key_Largo Instagram Account]\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci>Local Observer: How am I impeding you?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci>Border Patrol Officer: I’m not going to argue with you.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci>Local Observer: Are you going to shoot me?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci>Border Patrol Officer: Why would I shoot you?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci>Local Observer: Because one of your guys, one of you federal people just shot an innocent woman and murdered her in Minneapolis.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung: \u003c/b>Last week, on January 7th, federal immigration and customs enforcement officers shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She was 37. The Trump administration has launched an extensive immigration crackdown in Minneapolis singling out the city’s large Somali community. Last week they sent 2,000 federal agents in what ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons described as the largest immigration operation ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>C.J. Ciaramella, Guest: \u003c/b>In response, a lot of citizens have been protesting and following and monitoring ICE and CBP officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung: \u003c/b>This is C.J. Ciaramella, a reporter for Reason magazine who covers criminal justice and civil liberties. He’s been reporting on the Trump administration’s crackdown on those who record or photograph ICE operations. Last Wednesday, Renee Good and her wife had just dropped their six-year-old son off at school when they came across a group of ICE agents. Bystander video shows that Renee’s car was stopped perpendicularly on the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>C.J. Ciaramella: \u003c/b>And an ICE, uh, a pickup of federal immigration officers stopped in front of her and went up and were shouting at her to…there were some contradictory orders to both leave and get out of her car and started tugging on her car. She started backing up first and then as she was doing that, one of the immigration officers stepped in front her car and she started moving forward and pulling out to leave with the officer in front of her. And as he was stepping around her car, as it was moving towards him, he pulled out his gun and fired three shots and killed her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung: \u003c/b>There are several bystander videos that captured different angles of Renee’s last moments and the gruesome aftermath. One shows an officer denying medical assistance for Renee after a bystander identified himself as a doctor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>[Audio from a video recorded by eyewitness Emily Heller]\u003c/i>\u003ci>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci>Doctor: Can I go check a pulse?\u003c/i>\u003ci>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci>ICE Officer: No! Back up! Now!\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci>Doctor: I’m a physician!\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci>Emily Heller: Hey, listen here! You just killed my f***ing neighbor!\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung: \u003c/b>Videos of the incidents immediately spread online, sparking nationwide outrage. Over the weekend, hundreds of protests gathered across the country, demanding accountability and an end to mass deportations. The Trump administration has tried to paint Renee as an agitator who was stalking and impeding upon ICE operations. On Truth Social, the president said that Renee, “Violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE officer, who shot her in self-defense.” But as visual forensic analysis by the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Bellingcat shows, the officer was able to step away from the car and while still standing, fired at least 2 of the 3 shots through the window as the car turned away from him. As ICE operations continue across the country, the Trump administration has escalated retaliating against anyone who follows or records federal officers. This includes journalists, and any civilian just observing ICE. In the last year, ICE and Border Patrol officers have threatened, arrested, and detained those who document their activities or report on their whereabouts. And now, federal agents have appeared to reference the shooting of Renee Good in confrontations with observers, like in this video, which was posted on the r/minneapolis subreddit this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>[Clip 1 from r/minnesota Reddit page]\u003c/i>\u003ci>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci>Officer:This is your warning!\u003c/i>\u003ci>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci>Driver: For what?\u003c/i>\u003ci>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci>Officer: Stop f***ing following us! You are impeding operations! This is the United States Federal Government!\u003c/i>\u003ci>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci>Driver: I live over here, I gotta get to my house!\u003c/i>\u003ci>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci>Officer:This is- this is your warning! Go home!\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci>Driver: Go to church.\u003c/i>\u003ci>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci>Officer: Did you not learn from what just happened? Go home!\u003c/i>\u003ci>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci>Driver: Learn what?\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung: \u003c/b>Or in this video, which was posted on the r/minnesota subreddit days after Renee was killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>[Clip 2 from r/minnesota Reddit page]\u003c/i>\u003cb>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003ci>Officer: Have y’all not learned from the past couple of days? Have you not learned?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci>Recorder: Learned what? What’s our lesson here? What do you want us to learn?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci>Officer: Following federal agents.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci>Recorder: Give me my phone back!\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung: \u003c/b>In light of all this, many people are asking, are you allowed to record federal agents? And what are your rights when it comes to recording ICE, especially as the Trump administration increasingly tries to target those who do? This is Close All Tabs. I’m Morgan Sung, tech journalist and your chronically online friend, here to open as many browser tabs as it takes to help you understand how the digital world affects our real lives. Let’s get into it. Let’s start with a new tab. Are you allowed to record ice? We’re back with C.J. Ciaramella, who reports on criminal justice and civil liberties for Reason Magazine. He’s going to put this into context for us. ICE activities have been escalating all throughout the past year, but what led up to this moment? And does it feel like a tipping point to you?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>C.J. Ciaramella: \u003c/b>It really does. This has been sort of the, I don’t want to say logical conclusion because that doesn’t put it in the right light, but over this past summer, we’ve seen escalating rhetoric from the Trump administration about people filming and recording and monitoring ICE and also trying to warn other people about ICE activities. They described this as illegal activity, saying that it’s obstruction of justice or impeding federal immigration officers and they vowed to like, prosecute people who do this. And they also made it clear to these line officers working at CBP and ICE, yeah that they consider this illegal activity. That they consider following around and monitoring these agents to be very confrontational, illegal. There are dozens of videos of ICE and CBP officers threatening to arrest people and pulling them out of the car solely for following and recording them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung: \u003c/b>One of the main reasons that this incident specifically has exploded is because there are multiple video recordings taken by bystanders that have been shared online, gone viral, you know, just been spread among news outlets. You’ve been reporting on how the Trump administration is trying to make the case that recording ICE officers in public is illegal, like you said. 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The fifth circuit looked at it and said, you know, based on the first amendment tradition, the Supreme court presidents, this seems pretty unambiguous to us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uh, so it’s not a completely like black and white issue, but it’s also not a, like, a thorny or divisive first amendment question. Every court that’s looked at, it has said, yeah. Based on our long First Amendment traditions. And in America, you have a right to record the police. Now, Minnesota is in one of the circuits that hasn’t yet ruled on this. So it’s not like black letter law in Minnesota.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung: \u003c/b>Right. What protections does the public have, if any, when it comes to recording the police or recording law enforcement?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>C.J. Ciaramella: \u003c/b>You know, you do have strong First Amendment protections, especially if you’re engaged in news gathering activity, if you’re monitoring a protest or monitoring police activity. And you don’t have to be an official journalist to do this because there’s no, you know, definition of journalists in the First Amendment. There are very strong protections for news gathering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since about 2020, some states have passed what are called buffer laws that restrict people from recording the police within about 25 feet when they’re asked to get out of the way. And those have faced a lot of scrutiny from courts. Arizona and Indiana both had buffer laws that were overturned for being unconstitutionally vague. There would be too much of a chilling effect for preventing the public from recording police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is a really fundamental principle and privacy First Amendment and public record law in the United States, is that government officials doing official government work in public don’t have a reasonable expectation of privacy. You know, this is another example of a really sort of watershed moment in policing and law enforcement in America that’s based on recorded video evidence. The same as in Minneapolis with George Floyd in 2020, Rodney King, you know, is these have all had huge impacts on our nation’s history and they’re all based on people recording police activity and documenting it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The founders really believed that we should be able to hold our government accountable. And that includes having access to popular information and knowing what our government is doing. And that’s why recording the police and creating this sort of evidence trail is such a core protected first movement activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung: \u003c/b>In June last year, dozens of journalists were injured by law enforcement while covering the Los Angeles protests against mass deportation. Many journalists and protesters were tear gassed or shot at with pepper rounds and rubber bullets, or their phones and cameras were smashed while recording. One reporter was shot by a rubber bullet live on air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Months later, a federal district court issued an injunction blocking the Department of Homeland Security, which includes ICE and Border Patrol from brutalizing journalists, protesters, and legal observers. That means that federal agents aren’t allowed to threaten or assault the press or protesters unless they have probable cause to believe they’ve committed a crime. They also can’t use chemical, projectile, and auditory weapons against protesters, journalists, or legal observers who don’t pose imminent harm to law enforcement. Basically, they can’t tear gas or shoot people just for exercising their First Amendment rights. Enforcement is another story, though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>C.J. Ciaramella: \u003c/b>There were injunctions against that, if I’m remembering correctly. There were a couple of injunctions trying to restrict the sort of tactics that federal law enforcement was using. We also saw the same thing in Chicago. There was injunctions trying to restrict ICE from retaliating against protesters and reporters who were engaged in really clear-cut First Amendment activity. And the judges kind of struggled to enforce that. In Chicago we saw the plaintiffs kept coming back with new motions saying like, here’s more evidence that your injunction is not being followed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s been really hard to enforce because the Trump administration has, if not an officially stated, a de facto policy that anyone who is opposing them or filming them is subject to intimidation and retaliation. There was a Cato report that came out in December that outlined dozens of instances of people who are being intimidated and threatened by federal agents for engaging in really clearly protected First Amendment activity such as just following from a distance or recording police. In fact, I wrote a story about an Oregon woman who was followed by ICE agents because she was filming them in a parking lot and they followed her after she left and her lawyer shared video with me. She stopped at an intersection and you can see the the agents come up to her window and the first thing they say is ‘Why are you filming us?’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And I want to say also as well that people who monitor police, reporters, and activists have faced First Amendment retaliation for decades. But what’s really startling and unprecedented here is that we’re hearing this coming from the top of the federal government. That is something that’s quite new, I would say. Secretary Noem was on record in July saying that, you know, violence is anything that threatens them and their safety and she included videotaping federal immigration officers. They’re equating videotaping officers with violence and domestic terrorism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung: \u003c/b>Here’s what DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said during a press conference last summer\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>[Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem during July 12, 2025 Press Conference inTampa, Florida].\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci>…And I will tell you that violence is anything that threatens them and their safety. So it is doxing them. It’s videotaping them where they’re at when they’re out on operations, encouraging other people to come and to throw things, rocks, bottles…\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung: \u003c/b>Notice the use of the word doxing here. That’s the act of posting private information about someone to target and harass them, usually like their home address or personal phone number. The Trump administration has equated identifying and publicly naming ICE agents to dox-ing. California recently banned federal officers from wearing masks on duty, with exceptions for medical masks like N95s, wildfire protection, and agents undercover. The ban was supposed to go into effect this month. Here’s state Senator Scott Wiener talking about the ban on Instagram.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[Senator Scott Wiener speaking on Instagram ]\u003cb>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>I introduced and passed this law to stop ICE and any other law enforcement from covering their faces and effectively operating as secret police. It is horrifying what federal agents are doing, tearing communities apart, operating in the shadows, not identifying themselves, covering their faces so you don’t even know who you’re dealing with.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung: \u003c/b>But the Trump administration has sued to block the bill, citing threats to federal officers like taunting, online doxing, and stalking. They argue that states like California have no authority to interfere with federal immigration operations, which means that state and local officials can’t enforce the mask ban. So are you allowed to record ICE? Yes, but like we’ve seen with California’s mask ban, the White House has been very opposed to any attempt at identifying federal officers. In fact, they’ve gone as far as trying to prosecute those who record and identify ICE agents. So what does this targeting and retaliation from the administration look like? And how is it holding up in courts? That’s after this break.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung: \u003c/b>We’re back. Time to open a new tab: The legal battle over recording law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration is going as far as trying to prosecute people for following and recording ICE. And they’re using this federal statute to threaten those who get in their way. It’s called 18 USC 111. C.J. is going to tell us about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>C.J. Ciaramella: \u003c/b>Yeah, well, it’s both a felony and a misdemeanor depending on the severity or why they want to charge it. But it’s for assaulting, impeding, or obstructing a federal law enforcement agent and it’s pretty much what it sounds like. It’s more or less a federal analog of the obstruction laws that you see at your local level where if you, you know, if a police officer is trying to arrest someone and you get in their way and try and pull the person away or physically obstruct the officer, you can get charged with obstruction. But this also, I would mention, obstruction is a classic, what’s known as a contempt of cop charge. It’s something that’s thrown at people when they annoy cops, and the police are looking for something that they can punish them with. But it’s also used frequently for people who are being a real nuisance to police, and that’s what it’s intended for. It’s for assaulting and physically obstructing officers. And it accounts for all federal law enforcement, including immigration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung: \u003c/b>Right. How is the administration trying to use this statute specifically to target those who film ICE? Have they had any success?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>C.J. Ciaramella: \u003c/b>This is, you know, this sort of top-down order is to treat people who are opposing them through, you know, First Amendment or activities of recording or warning other people as violating this statute to sort of broaden this to include non-violent or non-physical means of obstruction. And what’s been really interesting about that is that these prosecutions have faired really poorly compared to federal prosecutors’ usual track record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Usually when a U.S. Attorney’s office brings a case to a grand jury, they almost always get it. It is extremely rare for federal prosecutors to bring a case to a jury and have them reject it. And most cases that they do bring end in guilty pleas and plea agreements. But what we’ve seen is grand juries refusing cases in Chicago and elsewhere, refusing to indict. And those cases then getting thrown out when body cam footage and other evidence comes to light showing that these actions that people are being charged for aren’t meeting the elements of this crime which requires physically obstructing or assaulting agents and you know by that definition following an officer isn’t obstructing them you know recording them isn’t physically obstructed them even alerting other people to the presence of ICE is not obstructing them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law on that is a little more mixed, but there have been courts that have upheld the right to, for example, warn motorists of speed traps ahead or to flash your lights to warn people of cops in the distance. They consider that First Amendment speech as well. So what we’ve seen is a lot of these prosecutions failing at an unprecedented rate. There have been quite a few cases where they’ve charged people with a felony charge. And then when a grand jury refuses to indict them, they are refiled as a misdemeanor, which doesn’t actually require a grand-jury indictment. And some of those cases have pled out guilty after the misdemeanor charge was refiled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s been other cases where the federal prosecutors haven’t even been able to secure a misdemeanor conviction. The most famous case was the sandwich guy in DC, Sean Dunn, who threw a Subway sandwich at a CBP officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>[Clip from WUSA 9 newscast]\u003c/i>\u003ci>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci>The Customs and Border Patrol agent hit with the sandwich, characterized it as a profanity laced tirade, and he told the jury Dunn threw the sandwich so hard, it exploded against his bulletproof vest, “I could smell the onions and mustard.”\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>C.J. Ciaramella: \u003c/b>The prosecutors were trying to convince the jury that this officer had a real fear for his safety when he got pelted with a sandwich, and the jury did not agree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung: \u003c/b>In an investigation published late last year, the Associated Press found that, since May, of the 100 people charged with felony assaults on federal agents, 55 saw their charges reduced to misdemeanors or just outright dismissed. Only 23 pleaded guilty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>C.J. Ciaramella: \u003c/b>They’ve found that dozens of the cases have kind of fallen apart. That is a really high failure rate for federal prosecutors who nearly, when it comes to these sort of cases, are almost always batting a hundred. So it’s been a, it’s been very strange, I think, for the U.S. Prosecutor’s offices as well, who have had to face judges who are being very, well judges have to be very circumspect in their language, but are questioning these cases pretty harshly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung: \u003c/b>Even talking about this top-down almost order, right? JD Vance has made statements about how ICE agents have total immunity. How does that play into this? Like, what can you tell us about how much of the talk of ICE’s immunity can actually hold up against legal challenges?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>C.J. Ciaramella: \u003c/b>I asked DHS public affairs office in December if they considered following and recording officers to be obstruction of justice. You know, I wanted to get a straight answer from them. And the office of public affairs sent me a statement attributed to an unnamed spokesperson who said, that sure sounds like obstruction of justice, which, you know, isn’t a super clear answer, but it gives you the mindset. And like I said, that is coming and that is trickling down from the very top of DHS to the line officers who are being told that they have immunity and that anyone who is sort of bothering them is probably violating the statute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung: \u003c/b>We’ve established that recording law enforcement is a right upheld by federal courts. That’s not stopping ICE agents from continuing to target those who do record them. You had mentioned the woman in Oregon that you covered. What happened there when she was stopped?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>C.J. Ciaramella: \u003c/b>She was detained for, I believe, five or six hours. She was taken to a detention facility and detained and eventually released without charges. Last time I checked, they still not filed any charges against her. So, you know, this was, um, can almost be seen as a purely retaliatory or punishment sort of, and that’s really, I think, what this comes down to is a textbook definition of a chilling effect on free speech. When you have these statements from top officials, when you have the vice president basically saying that these agents will have immunity for what they’re doing, it makes everyone who wants to participate and exercise their First Amendment right second guess whether it’s worth it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You know, I was out driving around in my hometown in December. Um, following ICE and CBP and taking pictures, you know, um, from a distance, but, uh, just seeing what they were doing because I’m a reporter and I had a unambiguous, crystal clear, First Amendment right to do that. But it was still in the back of my head, if these guys decided I was bothering them, they could bust out my car windows. They could detain me. They could pull their guns on me, which is all things that have happened to people for doing the same thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I was a reporter at 25, that wasn’t as much of a worry, but I have a kid at home, ah, you know, you start doing…the calculus gets a lot harder. And that’s exactly what this sort of policy and what this activity does is make people self-censor under the threat of government retaliation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung: \u003c/b>There was this woman who was detained for seven in Oregon. She’s just one of many dozens at this point who have been targeted by ICE. There are all the journalists in Los Angeles who were shot up by rubber bullets and injured. Is there any recourse for victims of retaliation like this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>C.J. Ciaramella: \u003c/b>Yeah, so it is very, very hard to hold federal law enforcement agents accountable for their actions. They do have sovereign immunity from some criminal prosecutions. In federal court, you have to file a lawsuit against the U.S. Government. You actually can’t sue them as individuals. So you basically have to go to court against the US government. And it is a very, very long and hard road to follow to successfully sue the U.S. Government for civil rights deprivations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The best options, um, are probably more sweeping class action injunctions and sort of broader rulings against the general activity, just because it’s so hard to hold individual officers accountable even on a class action or individual level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung: \u003c/b>Considering everything we just talked about, what should people know before they consider recording ICE or other law enforcement activities?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>C.J. Ciaramella: \u003c/b>What I say you should know is that you do have the First Amendment right to do this. You have the right to record and monitor, and you even have the right to verbally oppose the police. One of the Supreme Court decisions that a lot of circuit courts have looked back on when they’re deciding these sort of questions was a 1987 Supreme Court ruling in a case called Houston v Hill, where they struck down an ordinance that made it unlawful to oppose or interrupt a police officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supreme Court Justice William Brennan, Jr. wrote, “The freedom of individuals verbally to oppose or challenge police action without thereby risking arrest is one of the principle characteristics by which we distinguish a free nation from a police state.” And courts they’ll look back to that when they’re deciding things like whether you should be able to yell an obscenity at a police officer or record them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And like I said, what the administration is trying to do is create a chilling effect here. And what people should know is that they are banking on fear and banking on you not wanting to exercise your First Amendment rights. And what we’re seeing all around the country with these protests and with people coming out and confronting ICE agents and CBP agents more is that it’s not working.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung: \u003c/b>So remember, recording ICE, or any law enforcement, is your constitutional right, but it’s not without risks. We’ll link some resources for staying safe in the show notes. And check out our two-part series, The Surveillance Machine, for a deeper dive on the history of protest surveillance and how it’s used today. Okay, let’s close all these tabs.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>[Audio from 50501_Key_Largo Instagram Account]\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci>Border Patrol Officer: If I continue to see you following me around, I’m gonna pull you over and arrest you.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci>Local Observer: For what? What law am I breaking?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci>Border Patrol Officer: You’re impeding one of the investigations, okay?\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung: \u003c/b>That was an interaction between a Border Patrol officer and a local observer in Key Largo, Florida, posted on Instagram on Monday morning. The officer threatened to arrest the observer for following and filming him, but didn’t say what law they were breaking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>[Audio from 50501_Key_Largo Instagram Account]\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci>Local Observer: How am I impeding you?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci>Border Patrol Officer: I’m not going to argue with you.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci>Local Observer: Are you going to shoot me?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci>Border Patrol Officer: Why would I shoot you?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci>Local Observer: Because one of your guys, one of you federal people just shot an innocent woman and murdered her in Minneapolis.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung: \u003c/b>Last week, on January 7th, federal immigration and customs enforcement officers shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She was 37. The Trump administration has launched an extensive immigration crackdown in Minneapolis singling out the city’s large Somali community. Last week they sent 2,000 federal agents in what ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons described as the largest immigration operation ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>C.J. Ciaramella, Guest: \u003c/b>In response, a lot of citizens have been protesting and following and monitoring ICE and CBP officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung: \u003c/b>This is C.J. Ciaramella, a reporter for Reason magazine who covers criminal justice and civil liberties. He’s been reporting on the Trump administration’s crackdown on those who record or photograph ICE operations. Last Wednesday, Renee Good and her wife had just dropped their six-year-old son off at school when they came across a group of ICE agents. Bystander video shows that Renee’s car was stopped perpendicularly on the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>C.J. Ciaramella: \u003c/b>And an ICE, uh, a pickup of federal immigration officers stopped in front of her and went up and were shouting at her to…there were some contradictory orders to both leave and get out of her car and started tugging on her car. She started backing up first and then as she was doing that, one of the immigration officers stepped in front her car and she started moving forward and pulling out to leave with the officer in front of her. And as he was stepping around her car, as it was moving towards him, he pulled out his gun and fired three shots and killed her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung: \u003c/b>There are several bystander videos that captured different angles of Renee’s last moments and the gruesome aftermath. One shows an officer denying medical assistance for Renee after a bystander identified himself as a doctor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>[Audio from a video recorded by eyewitness Emily Heller]\u003c/i>\u003ci>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci>Doctor: Can I go check a pulse?\u003c/i>\u003ci>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci>ICE Officer: No! Back up! Now!\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci>Doctor: I’m a physician!\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci>Emily Heller: Hey, listen here! You just killed my f***ing neighbor!\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung: \u003c/b>Videos of the incidents immediately spread online, sparking nationwide outrage. Over the weekend, hundreds of protests gathered across the country, demanding accountability and an end to mass deportations. The Trump administration has tried to paint Renee as an agitator who was stalking and impeding upon ICE operations. On Truth Social, the president said that Renee, “Violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE officer, who shot her in self-defense.” But as visual forensic analysis by the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Bellingcat shows, the officer was able to step away from the car and while still standing, fired at least 2 of the 3 shots through the window as the car turned away from him. As ICE operations continue across the country, the Trump administration has escalated retaliating against anyone who follows or records federal officers. This includes journalists, and any civilian just observing ICE. In the last year, ICE and Border Patrol officers have threatened, arrested, and detained those who document their activities or report on their whereabouts. And now, federal agents have appeared to reference the shooting of Renee Good in confrontations with observers, like in this video, which was posted on the r/minneapolis subreddit this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>[Clip 1 from r/minnesota Reddit page]\u003c/i>\u003ci>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci>Officer:This is your warning!\u003c/i>\u003ci>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci>Driver: For what?\u003c/i>\u003ci>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci>Officer: Stop f***ing following us! You are impeding operations! This is the United States Federal Government!\u003c/i>\u003ci>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci>Driver: I live over here, I gotta get to my house!\u003c/i>\u003ci>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci>Officer:This is- this is your warning! Go home!\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci>Driver: Go to church.\u003c/i>\u003ci>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci>Officer: Did you not learn from what just happened? Go home!\u003c/i>\u003ci>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci>Driver: Learn what?\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung: \u003c/b>Or in this video, which was posted on the r/minnesota subreddit days after Renee was killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>[Clip 2 from r/minnesota Reddit page]\u003c/i>\u003cb>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003ci>Officer: Have y’all not learned from the past couple of days? Have you not learned?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci>Recorder: Learned what? What’s our lesson here? What do you want us to learn?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci>Officer: Following federal agents.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci>Recorder: Give me my phone back!\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung: \u003c/b>In light of all this, many people are asking, are you allowed to record federal agents? And what are your rights when it comes to recording ICE, especially as the Trump administration increasingly tries to target those who do? This is Close All Tabs. I’m Morgan Sung, tech journalist and your chronically online friend, here to open as many browser tabs as it takes to help you understand how the digital world affects our real lives. Let’s get into it. Let’s start with a new tab. Are you allowed to record ice? We’re back with C.J. Ciaramella, who reports on criminal justice and civil liberties for Reason Magazine. He’s going to put this into context for us. ICE activities have been escalating all throughout the past year, but what led up to this moment? And does it feel like a tipping point to you?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>C.J. Ciaramella: \u003c/b>It really does. This has been sort of the, I don’t want to say logical conclusion because that doesn’t put it in the right light, but over this past summer, we’ve seen escalating rhetoric from the Trump administration about people filming and recording and monitoring ICE and also trying to warn other people about ICE activities. They described this as illegal activity, saying that it’s obstruction of justice or impeding federal immigration officers and they vowed to like, prosecute people who do this. And they also made it clear to these line officers working at CBP and ICE, yeah that they consider this illegal activity. That they consider following around and monitoring these agents to be very confrontational, illegal. There are dozens of videos of ICE and CBP officers threatening to arrest people and pulling them out of the car solely for following and recording them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung: \u003c/b>One of the main reasons that this incident specifically has exploded is because there are multiple video recordings taken by bystanders that have been shared online, gone viral, you know, just been spread among news outlets. You’ve been reporting on how the Trump administration is trying to make the case that recording ICE officers in public is illegal, like you said. But just to be clear, does the public have the right to record law enforcement and specifically ICE?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>C.J. Ciaramella: \u003c/b>Well, I gotta be a little bit nuanced about this because the Supreme Court actually hasn’t put out a ruling saying there’s an unambiguous First Amendment right to film the police. But all of the seven US Federal Circuit Courts that have considered the issue have pretty much said there is a First Amendment right to record the police and observe the police, and they’ve all decided that pretty unambiguously. And this ranges from, you know, the ninth circuit, which is traditionally a pretty liberal leaning court to the fifth circuit, which has a reputation as a more conservative circuit court, you know? The fifth circuit looked at it and said, you know, based on the first amendment tradition, the Supreme court presidents, this seems pretty unambiguous to us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uh, so it’s not a completely like black and white issue, but it’s also not a, like, a thorny or divisive first amendment question. Every court that’s looked at, it has said, yeah. Based on our long First Amendment traditions. And in America, you have a right to record the police. Now, Minnesota is in one of the circuits that hasn’t yet ruled on this. So it’s not like black letter law in Minnesota.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung: \u003c/b>Right. What protections does the public have, if any, when it comes to recording the police or recording law enforcement?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>C.J. Ciaramella: \u003c/b>You know, you do have strong First Amendment protections, especially if you’re engaged in news gathering activity, if you’re monitoring a protest or monitoring police activity. And you don’t have to be an official journalist to do this because there’s no, you know, definition of journalists in the First Amendment. There are very strong protections for news gathering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since about 2020, some states have passed what are called buffer laws that restrict people from recording the police within about 25 feet when they’re asked to get out of the way. And those have faced a lot of scrutiny from courts. Arizona and Indiana both had buffer laws that were overturned for being unconstitutionally vague. There would be too much of a chilling effect for preventing the public from recording police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is a really fundamental principle and privacy First Amendment and public record law in the United States, is that government officials doing official government work in public don’t have a reasonable expectation of privacy. You know, this is another example of a really sort of watershed moment in policing and law enforcement in America that’s based on recorded video evidence. The same as in Minneapolis with George Floyd in 2020, Rodney King, you know, is these have all had huge impacts on our nation’s history and they’re all based on people recording police activity and documenting it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The founders really believed that we should be able to hold our government accountable. And that includes having access to popular information and knowing what our government is doing. And that’s why recording the police and creating this sort of evidence trail is such a core protected first movement activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung: \u003c/b>In June last year, dozens of journalists were injured by law enforcement while covering the Los Angeles protests against mass deportation. Many journalists and protesters were tear gassed or shot at with pepper rounds and rubber bullets, or their phones and cameras were smashed while recording. One reporter was shot by a rubber bullet live on air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Months later, a federal district court issued an injunction blocking the Department of Homeland Security, which includes ICE and Border Patrol from brutalizing journalists, protesters, and legal observers. That means that federal agents aren’t allowed to threaten or assault the press or protesters unless they have probable cause to believe they’ve committed a crime. They also can’t use chemical, projectile, and auditory weapons against protesters, journalists, or legal observers who don’t pose imminent harm to law enforcement. Basically, they can’t tear gas or shoot people just for exercising their First Amendment rights. Enforcement is another story, though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>C.J. Ciaramella: \u003c/b>There were injunctions against that, if I’m remembering correctly. There were a couple of injunctions trying to restrict the sort of tactics that federal law enforcement was using. We also saw the same thing in Chicago. There was injunctions trying to restrict ICE from retaliating against protesters and reporters who were engaged in really clear-cut First Amendment activity. And the judges kind of struggled to enforce that. In Chicago we saw the plaintiffs kept coming back with new motions saying like, here’s more evidence that your injunction is not being followed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s been really hard to enforce because the Trump administration has, if not an officially stated, a de facto policy that anyone who is opposing them or filming them is subject to intimidation and retaliation. There was a Cato report that came out in December that outlined dozens of instances of people who are being intimidated and threatened by federal agents for engaging in really clearly protected First Amendment activity such as just following from a distance or recording police. In fact, I wrote a story about an Oregon woman who was followed by ICE agents because she was filming them in a parking lot and they followed her after she left and her lawyer shared video with me. She stopped at an intersection and you can see the the agents come up to her window and the first thing they say is ‘Why are you filming us?’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And I want to say also as well that people who monitor police, reporters, and activists have faced First Amendment retaliation for decades. But what’s really startling and unprecedented here is that we’re hearing this coming from the top of the federal government. That is something that’s quite new, I would say. Secretary Noem was on record in July saying that, you know, violence is anything that threatens them and their safety and she included videotaping federal immigration officers. They’re equating videotaping officers with violence and domestic terrorism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung: \u003c/b>Here’s what DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said during a press conference last summer\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>[Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem during July 12, 2025 Press Conference inTampa, Florida].\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci>…And I will tell you that violence is anything that threatens them and their safety. So it is doxing them. It’s videotaping them where they’re at when they’re out on operations, encouraging other people to come and to throw things, rocks, bottles…\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung: \u003c/b>Notice the use of the word doxing here. That’s the act of posting private information about someone to target and harass them, usually like their home address or personal phone number. The Trump administration has equated identifying and publicly naming ICE agents to dox-ing. California recently banned federal officers from wearing masks on duty, with exceptions for medical masks like N95s, wildfire protection, and agents undercover. The ban was supposed to go into effect this month. Here’s state Senator Scott Wiener talking about the ban on Instagram.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[Senator Scott Wiener speaking on Instagram ]\u003cb>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>I introduced and passed this law to stop ICE and any other law enforcement from covering their faces and effectively operating as secret police. It is horrifying what federal agents are doing, tearing communities apart, operating in the shadows, not identifying themselves, covering their faces so you don’t even know who you’re dealing with.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung: \u003c/b>But the Trump administration has sued to block the bill, citing threats to federal officers like taunting, online doxing, and stalking. They argue that states like California have no authority to interfere with federal immigration operations, which means that state and local officials can’t enforce the mask ban. So are you allowed to record ICE? Yes, but like we’ve seen with California’s mask ban, the White House has been very opposed to any attempt at identifying federal officers. In fact, they’ve gone as far as trying to prosecute those who record and identify ICE agents. So what does this targeting and retaliation from the administration look like? And how is it holding up in courts? That’s after this break.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung: \u003c/b>We’re back. Time to open a new tab: The legal battle over recording law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration is going as far as trying to prosecute people for following and recording ICE. And they’re using this federal statute to threaten those who get in their way. It’s called 18 USC 111. C.J. is going to tell us about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>C.J. Ciaramella: \u003c/b>Yeah, well, it’s both a felony and a misdemeanor depending on the severity or why they want to charge it. But it’s for assaulting, impeding, or obstructing a federal law enforcement agent and it’s pretty much what it sounds like. It’s more or less a federal analog of the obstruction laws that you see at your local level where if you, you know, if a police officer is trying to arrest someone and you get in their way and try and pull the person away or physically obstruct the officer, you can get charged with obstruction. But this also, I would mention, obstruction is a classic, what’s known as a contempt of cop charge. It’s something that’s thrown at people when they annoy cops, and the police are looking for something that they can punish them with. But it’s also used frequently for people who are being a real nuisance to police, and that’s what it’s intended for. It’s for assaulting and physically obstructing officers. And it accounts for all federal law enforcement, including immigration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung: \u003c/b>Right. How is the administration trying to use this statute specifically to target those who film ICE? Have they had any success?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>C.J. Ciaramella: \u003c/b>This is, you know, this sort of top-down order is to treat people who are opposing them through, you know, First Amendment or activities of recording or warning other people as violating this statute to sort of broaden this to include non-violent or non-physical means of obstruction. And what’s been really interesting about that is that these prosecutions have faired really poorly compared to federal prosecutors’ usual track record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Usually when a U.S. Attorney’s office brings a case to a grand jury, they almost always get it. It is extremely rare for federal prosecutors to bring a case to a jury and have them reject it. And most cases that they do bring end in guilty pleas and plea agreements. But what we’ve seen is grand juries refusing cases in Chicago and elsewhere, refusing to indict. And those cases then getting thrown out when body cam footage and other evidence comes to light showing that these actions that people are being charged for aren’t meeting the elements of this crime which requires physically obstructing or assaulting agents and you know by that definition following an officer isn’t obstructing them you know recording them isn’t physically obstructed them even alerting other people to the presence of ICE is not obstructing them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law on that is a little more mixed, but there have been courts that have upheld the right to, for example, warn motorists of speed traps ahead or to flash your lights to warn people of cops in the distance. They consider that First Amendment speech as well. So what we’ve seen is a lot of these prosecutions failing at an unprecedented rate. There have been quite a few cases where they’ve charged people with a felony charge. And then when a grand jury refuses to indict them, they are refiled as a misdemeanor, which doesn’t actually require a grand-jury indictment. And some of those cases have pled out guilty after the misdemeanor charge was refiled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s been other cases where the federal prosecutors haven’t even been able to secure a misdemeanor conviction. The most famous case was the sandwich guy in DC, Sean Dunn, who threw a Subway sandwich at a CBP officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>[Clip from WUSA 9 newscast]\u003c/i>\u003ci>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci>The Customs and Border Patrol agent hit with the sandwich, characterized it as a profanity laced tirade, and he told the jury Dunn threw the sandwich so hard, it exploded against his bulletproof vest, “I could smell the onions and mustard.”\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>C.J. Ciaramella: \u003c/b>The prosecutors were trying to convince the jury that this officer had a real fear for his safety when he got pelted with a sandwich, and the jury did not agree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung: \u003c/b>In an investigation published late last year, the Associated Press found that, since May, of the 100 people charged with felony assaults on federal agents, 55 saw their charges reduced to misdemeanors or just outright dismissed. Only 23 pleaded guilty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>C.J. Ciaramella: \u003c/b>They’ve found that dozens of the cases have kind of fallen apart. That is a really high failure rate for federal prosecutors who nearly, when it comes to these sort of cases, are almost always batting a hundred. So it’s been a, it’s been very strange, I think, for the U.S. Prosecutor’s offices as well, who have had to face judges who are being very, well judges have to be very circumspect in their language, but are questioning these cases pretty harshly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung: \u003c/b>Even talking about this top-down almost order, right? JD Vance has made statements about how ICE agents have total immunity. How does that play into this? Like, what can you tell us about how much of the talk of ICE’s immunity can actually hold up against legal challenges?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>C.J. Ciaramella: \u003c/b>I asked DHS public affairs office in December if they considered following and recording officers to be obstruction of justice. You know, I wanted to get a straight answer from them. And the office of public affairs sent me a statement attributed to an unnamed spokesperson who said, that sure sounds like obstruction of justice, which, you know, isn’t a super clear answer, but it gives you the mindset. And like I said, that is coming and that is trickling down from the very top of DHS to the line officers who are being told that they have immunity and that anyone who is sort of bothering them is probably violating the statute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung: \u003c/b>We’ve established that recording law enforcement is a right upheld by federal courts. That’s not stopping ICE agents from continuing to target those who do record them. You had mentioned the woman in Oregon that you covered. What happened there when she was stopped?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>C.J. Ciaramella: \u003c/b>She was detained for, I believe, five or six hours. She was taken to a detention facility and detained and eventually released without charges. Last time I checked, they still not filed any charges against her. So, you know, this was, um, can almost be seen as a purely retaliatory or punishment sort of, and that’s really, I think, what this comes down to is a textbook definition of a chilling effect on free speech. When you have these statements from top officials, when you have the vice president basically saying that these agents will have immunity for what they’re doing, it makes everyone who wants to participate and exercise their First Amendment right second guess whether it’s worth it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You know, I was out driving around in my hometown in December. Um, following ICE and CBP and taking pictures, you know, um, from a distance, but, uh, just seeing what they were doing because I’m a reporter and I had a unambiguous, crystal clear, First Amendment right to do that. But it was still in the back of my head, if these guys decided I was bothering them, they could bust out my car windows. They could detain me. They could pull their guns on me, which is all things that have happened to people for doing the same thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I was a reporter at 25, that wasn’t as much of a worry, but I have a kid at home, ah, you know, you start doing…the calculus gets a lot harder. And that’s exactly what this sort of policy and what this activity does is make people self-censor under the threat of government retaliation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung: \u003c/b>There was this woman who was detained for seven in Oregon. She’s just one of many dozens at this point who have been targeted by ICE. There are all the journalists in Los Angeles who were shot up by rubber bullets and injured. Is there any recourse for victims of retaliation like this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>C.J. Ciaramella: \u003c/b>Yeah, so it is very, very hard to hold federal law enforcement agents accountable for their actions. They do have sovereign immunity from some criminal prosecutions. In federal court, you have to file a lawsuit against the U.S. Government. You actually can’t sue them as individuals. So you basically have to go to court against the US government. And it is a very, very long and hard road to follow to successfully sue the U.S. Government for civil rights deprivations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The best options, um, are probably more sweeping class action injunctions and sort of broader rulings against the general activity, just because it’s so hard to hold individual officers accountable even on a class action or individual level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung: \u003c/b>Considering everything we just talked about, what should people know before they consider recording ICE or other law enforcement activities?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>C.J. Ciaramella: \u003c/b>What I say you should know is that you do have the First Amendment right to do this. You have the right to record and monitor, and you even have the right to verbally oppose the police. One of the Supreme Court decisions that a lot of circuit courts have looked back on when they’re deciding these sort of questions was a 1987 Supreme Court ruling in a case called Houston v Hill, where they struck down an ordinance that made it unlawful to oppose or interrupt a police officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supreme Court Justice William Brennan, Jr. wrote, “The freedom of individuals verbally to oppose or challenge police action without thereby risking arrest is one of the principle characteristics by which we distinguish a free nation from a police state.” And courts they’ll look back to that when they’re deciding things like whether you should be able to yell an obscenity at a police officer or record them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And like I said, what the administration is trying to do is create a chilling effect here. And what people should know is that they are banking on fear and banking on you not wanting to exercise your First Amendment rights. And what we’re seeing all around the country with these protests and with people coming out and confronting ICE agents and CBP agents more is that it’s not working.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In late November, Bay Area criminal defense attorney James Cook began offering his legal services free of charge to residents of Minneapolis — the latest American city to be embroiled in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">Trump\u003c/a> administration’s escalating immigration crackdown and ensuing protests from residents opposed to sweeping enforcement operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His days often start before dawn, with an early morning text or call from distressed residents who report having seen their friends or family be taken away by masked agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people have my information, that’s been texted far and wide throughout Minneapolis by protesters and ICE watchers and other people, and they send me the information,” Cook said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Armed with a list of names of detained or missing residents, Cook will head to the local ICE detention facility to confirm whether those people are being held there and plan next steps to prevent their deportation and, if possible, win their release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cook, who grew up in Minneapolis and has homes there and in San Francisco, admitted that — in general — he hasn’t found much success. Of the hundreds of names he’s been given, he said he’s only successfully argued for somebody’s release from detention a couple of times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My thing has been to try to get a suspension or something so that the person can get proper counsel and do the nuanced work that needs to be done,” Cook said. “Just to stop it or delay it and since the efforts have really been ramped up, I haven’t been able to do any of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070315\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1980px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070315\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-2255813342.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1320\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-2255813342.jpg 1980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-2255813342-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-2255813342-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters are confronted by an ICE supporter during a demonstration outside the Bishop Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Jan. 15, 2026. \u003ccite>(Octavio JONES/AFP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration’s Operation Metro Surge has led to the arrival of as many as 2,000 federal officers operating in Minnesota, many in the Minneapolis area — with up to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.startribune.com/how-ice-numbers-compare-to-twin-cities-largest-police-forces/601562617\">thousand\u003c/a> more on their way, according to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. While some agents are from Customs and Border Patrol, the bulk of the presence is from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The operation, which the DHS called the largest in the agency’s history, has led to the arrests of more than 4,500 immigrants, according to the \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.startribune.com/operation-metro-surge-when-will-it-end-chicago/601564603\">Minnesota Star-Tribune\u003c/a>\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents like Cook have expressed their opposition to what they see as an incursion of hostile, anonymous and unaccountable agents and that opposition has only intensified since ICE agents killed Renee Good earlier this month and shot and wounded another person this week.[aside postID=news_12069782 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/USImmigrationCustomsEnforcementHQGetty.jpg']Cook, who has been on the ground, said he’s worried that the rights of those arrested are not being protected. “When they pluck people off the street for simply exercising their First Amendment rights, that’s a constitutional violation,” Cook said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cook said he also believes the rights of citizens monitoring or protesting federal officers are also being violated, pointing to examples of people detained seemingly without cause other than shouting at federal agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cook is not an immigration attorney. His area of expertise is in criminal defense law and mostly in state courts, not federal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In criminal defense, you have one prime directive,” Cook said. “Your mission is to get people out of custody and … in doing so, make sure the government fully follows the Constitution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cook works for Burris, Nisenbaum, Curry & Lacy, an Oakland-based law firm with a history of taking on high-profile cases of police or government misconduct. Partner John Burris represented Rodney King — whose videotaped beating at the hands of multiple Los Angeles police officers in 1991 sparked large-scale unrest in the city— and the family of Oscar Grant, an unarmed Black man killed by a BART police officer on New Year’s Day 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was partially that history, Cook said, that caused people in the Twin Cities to begin reaching out to him for help and compelled him to begin offering his services pro bono.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070092\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070092\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260115-JAMES-COOK-EF-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260115-JAMES-COOK-EF-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260115-JAMES-COOK-EF-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260115-JAMES-COOK-EF-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attorney James Cook stands for a portrait outside of the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis on, Jan. 15, 2026. \u003ccite>(Evan Frost for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One major obstacle Cook said he’s facing is the fact that detainees are often transferred out of the state very quickly after they’re detained, often to facilities in Texas where they are prepared for deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By the time I get there, even if it’s just a few hours later, if they’re in El Paso or they’re on a plane on the way, I can’t do anything,” Cook said. “All I can do is give the family, you know, some of the referrals that I have in El Paso.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cook recalled being contacted by the family of a man who had been detained one day around 8 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got over to the detention facility at noon and confirmed that he was there … I filed a notice of suspension and then, I went back later that day just before they closed and they’d already sent him to Texas,” Cook said. Cook said the client had called his family before noon the following day to say he was back in Durango, a state in northern Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conversations like these are why Cook reminds his clients and their families that they still have constitutional rights — which should legally be upheld.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12069308\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ReneeGoodProtestOaklandGetty3.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12069308\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ReneeGoodProtestOaklandGetty3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1341\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ReneeGoodProtestOaklandGetty3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ReneeGoodProtestOaklandGetty3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ReneeGoodProtestOaklandGetty3-1536x1030.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters take part in a vigil for Renee Nicole Good at Fruitvale Plaza Park in Oakland, California, on Jan. 7, 2026. \u003ccite>(Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/East Bay Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There’s no way, based on what I’m seeing anecdotally, that people are being treated properly as pre-trial detainees, if they’re doing the deportations that quick,” Cook said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whatever way they’re wording it, they’re not giving them the proper information. That is where I think that real research — where the questions need to be asked and where the government needs to be held accountable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Homeland Security did not return a request for comment. Cook also didn’t mince words about the stakes he believes are involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In high school, you learn about Nazi Germany, and you think like well, ‘I’d want to try to stop it back then’ or the Japanese internment camps. Well, this is the time, we’re living that right now,” Cook said. “In fact, that’s what I would say to any attorney, if you ever thought like … ‘I would do things to stop it.’ Well, this is it. This is what you can do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Armed with a list of names of detained or missing residents, Cook will head to the local ICE detention facility to confirm whether those people are being held there and plan next steps to prevent their deportation and, if possible, win their release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cook, who grew up in Minneapolis and has homes there and in San Francisco, admitted that — in general — he hasn’t found much success. Of the hundreds of names he’s been given, he said he’s only successfully argued for somebody’s release from detention a couple of times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My thing has been to try to get a suspension or something so that the person can get proper counsel and do the nuanced work that needs to be done,” Cook said. “Just to stop it or delay it and since the efforts have really been ramped up, I haven’t been able to do any of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070315\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1980px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070315\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-2255813342.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1320\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-2255813342.jpg 1980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-2255813342-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-2255813342-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters are confronted by an ICE supporter during a demonstration outside the Bishop Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Jan. 15, 2026. \u003ccite>(Octavio JONES/AFP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration’s Operation Metro Surge has led to the arrival of as many as 2,000 federal officers operating in Minnesota, many in the Minneapolis area — with up to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.startribune.com/how-ice-numbers-compare-to-twin-cities-largest-police-forces/601562617\">thousand\u003c/a> more on their way, according to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. While some agents are from Customs and Border Patrol, the bulk of the presence is from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The operation, which the DHS called the largest in the agency’s history, has led to the arrests of more than 4,500 immigrants, according to the \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.startribune.com/operation-metro-surge-when-will-it-end-chicago/601564603\">Minnesota Star-Tribune\u003c/a>\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents like Cook have expressed their opposition to what they see as an incursion of hostile, anonymous and unaccountable agents and that opposition has only intensified since ICE agents killed Renee Good earlier this month and shot and wounded another person this week.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Cook, who has been on the ground, said he’s worried that the rights of those arrested are not being protected. “When they pluck people off the street for simply exercising their First Amendment rights, that’s a constitutional violation,” Cook said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cook said he also believes the rights of citizens monitoring or protesting federal officers are also being violated, pointing to examples of people detained seemingly without cause other than shouting at federal agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cook is not an immigration attorney. His area of expertise is in criminal defense law and mostly in state courts, not federal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In criminal defense, you have one prime directive,” Cook said. “Your mission is to get people out of custody and … in doing so, make sure the government fully follows the Constitution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cook works for Burris, Nisenbaum, Curry & Lacy, an Oakland-based law firm with a history of taking on high-profile cases of police or government misconduct. Partner John Burris represented Rodney King — whose videotaped beating at the hands of multiple Los Angeles police officers in 1991 sparked large-scale unrest in the city— and the family of Oscar Grant, an unarmed Black man killed by a BART police officer on New Year’s Day 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was partially that history, Cook said, that caused people in the Twin Cities to begin reaching out to him for help and compelled him to begin offering his services pro bono.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070092\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070092\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260115-JAMES-COOK-EF-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260115-JAMES-COOK-EF-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260115-JAMES-COOK-EF-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260115-JAMES-COOK-EF-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attorney James Cook stands for a portrait outside of the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis on, Jan. 15, 2026. \u003ccite>(Evan Frost for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One major obstacle Cook said he’s facing is the fact that detainees are often transferred out of the state very quickly after they’re detained, often to facilities in Texas where they are prepared for deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By the time I get there, even if it’s just a few hours later, if they’re in El Paso or they’re on a plane on the way, I can’t do anything,” Cook said. “All I can do is give the family, you know, some of the referrals that I have in El Paso.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cook recalled being contacted by the family of a man who had been detained one day around 8 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got over to the detention facility at noon and confirmed that he was there … I filed a notice of suspension and then, I went back later that day just before they closed and they’d already sent him to Texas,” Cook said. Cook said the client had called his family before noon the following day to say he was back in Durango, a state in northern Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conversations like these are why Cook reminds his clients and their families that they still have constitutional rights — which should legally be upheld.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12069308\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ReneeGoodProtestOaklandGetty3.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12069308\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ReneeGoodProtestOaklandGetty3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1341\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ReneeGoodProtestOaklandGetty3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ReneeGoodProtestOaklandGetty3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ReneeGoodProtestOaklandGetty3-1536x1030.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters take part in a vigil for Renee Nicole Good at Fruitvale Plaza Park in Oakland, California, on Jan. 7, 2026. \u003ccite>(Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/East Bay Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There’s no way, based on what I’m seeing anecdotally, that people are being treated properly as pre-trial detainees, if they’re doing the deportations that quick,” Cook said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whatever way they’re wording it, they’re not giving them the proper information. 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"content": "\u003cp>California prosecutors are expressing alarm at the Trump administration’s response to the fatal shooting of a Minneapolis woman by an immigration agent, pointing to statements that the agent has \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tsq4o1VMLuc\">absolute immunity\u003c/a> from prosecution and to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/01/14/nx-s1-5676324/minnesota-ice-shooting-investigation-fbi-renee-macklin-good\">decision to exclude Minnesota investigators\u003c/a> from the inquiry into the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In interviews with KQED, state and local prosecutors vowed to investigate and, if necessary, prosecute federal agents who act illegally in California. But they acknowledged that those probes would be difficult to undertake without federal cooperation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Despite what Vice President Vance has irresponsibly and erroneously said …There’s no such thing as absolute immunity,” California Attorney General Rob Bonta, a Democrat, said. “Of course, there can be criminal liability for an ICE agent who commits a crime. ICE agents do not have carte blanche and license to kill and commit crimes and assaults and batter and rape and murder Americans. That’s what JD Vance is saying.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amid aggressive immigration raids in Minneapolis, Renee Macklin Good was shot three times by an ICE agent as she \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000010631041/minneapolis-ice-shooting-video.html\">appeared to turn her car away\u003c/a> from the officer on Jan. 7.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following the shooting, federal authorities — including President Donald Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem — \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/us/politics/trump-shooting-renee-good-ice.html\">blamed\u003c/a> Good for the shooting, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/us/politics/trump-ice-shooting-response-minneapolis.html\">excluded\u003c/a> state and local law enforcement from the investigation and moved to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/us/politics/fbi-renee-good-ice-shooting.html\">focus the probe\u003c/a> on Good’s possible activism, not the ICE agent’s actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12069309\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12069309\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/KristiNoemGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/KristiNoemGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/KristiNoemGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/KristiNoemGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem speaks at a news conference on Jan. 7, 2026, in Brownsville, Texas. Secretary Noem announced that the federal government would be deploying 500 miles of water barriers in the Rio Grande River. \u003ccite>(Michael Gonzalez/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The precedent here is very simple — you have a federal law enforcement official, engaging in a federal law enforcement action,” Vice President JD Vance said from the White House podium two days after the shooting. “That’s a federal issue; that guy is protected by absolute immunity, he is doing his job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That claim prompted outrage from Democrats around the nation, in part because Macklin Good’s shooting, while she drove her car, is not unique.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigration agents have been involved in at least two nonfatal shootings of drivers in Los Angeles in recent months, and a Wall Street Journal investigation \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/us-news/videos-show-how-ice-vehicle-stops-can-escalate-to-shootings-caf17601\">identified\u003c/a> 13 times since July when ICE agents fired into civilians’ vehicles, twice fatally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vance’s comments in particular outraged law enforcement in California and beyond; the administration’s response led six federal prosecutors in Minnesota to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/01/14/nx-s1-5676293/several-federal-prosecutors-in-minnesota-resign-over-ice-shooting-investigation\">resign\u003c/a> this week.[aside postID=news_12069888 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251120-robbontapb-08-bl-KQED.jpg']“I’ve never in my career seen a government official, an elected official, or the head of a law enforcement agency come out and within minutes justify the conduct of the officer or agent (involved in a shooting),” San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said on KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069540/san-francisco-da-weighs-in-on-minneapolis-ice-shooting\">Political Breakdown\u003c/a> onTuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It tells me that there’s already been a conclusion drawn, that we will not have a full and fair and independent investigation because they’ve already told us that they’ve determined that this shooting was justified. And so there will not be an opportunity for justice should that need to happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jenkins, a Democrat, made headlines in October amid threats of Bay Area immigration raids when she said she would\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/joegarofoli/article/jenkins-federal-agents-21114802.php\"> not hesitate to prosecute federal agents \u003c/a>who break the law in San Francisco. Her comments prompted Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche to write a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/DAGToddBlanche/status/1981495700450893894/photo/1\">letter\u003c/a> that offered a preview of the government’s response to the Minnesota case: He declared any arrest of federal agents “illegal and futile.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Jenkins’ comments were correct, San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s exactly what I feel. I don’t care who they are, I don’t care who or what their role is. If they come into our county, violate the law, they get held accountable just like anybody does,” he said. “Stature or occupation is not relevant as to whether you get prosecuted if you violate the law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one of the Los Angeles cases, TikTok streamer Carlitos Ricardo Parias was accused by federal agents of using his car as a deadly weapon; agents claimed they fired at him in self-defense. But a federal judge dismissed the assault charges filed by federal prosecutors, and video of the incident has \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-12-28/federal-judge-dismisses-indictment-against-tiktoker\">raised questions\u003c/a> about the agents’ account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054682\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12054682\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904-STEPHEN-WAGSTAFFE-ON-PB-03-KQED_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904-STEPHEN-WAGSTAFFE-ON-PB-03-KQED_1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904-STEPHEN-WAGSTAFFE-ON-PB-03-KQED_1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904-STEPHEN-WAGSTAFFE-ON-PB-03-KQED_1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Mateo County Sheriff Stephen Wagstaffe at KQED in San Francisco on Sept. 4, 2025.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s not clear if there are state or local investigations into that incident: Los Angeles District Attorney Nathan Hochman declined an interview request for this story, and Bonta declined to confirm or deny a state investigation, saying he cannot comment on pending cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But prosecutors said that federal authorities’ actions are eroding trust in law enforcement – and making their jobs harder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rule of law doesn’t truly exist in our country at the highest level right now,” Jenkins said. “We already know that based on the history in this country, there’s so much distrust when it comes to the prosecution of law enforcement for unlawful shootings or even fair investigations into those shootings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wagstaffe said he was dismayed to see the rush to judgment by both the Trump administration and local elected officials, like Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey. Within hours of the Good shooting, Frey \u003ca href=\"https://www.fox9.com/news/minneapolis-mayor-ice-shooting-self-defense-bullshit-officials-will-seek-justice-jan-2026\">declared the federal government’s self-defense claims “bulls—.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Wagstaffe said none of that should affect the investigation.[aside postID=news_12069724 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/SanctuaryCitySFTrumpAP-1020x725.jpg']“What we’re trying to do here is inspire public trust,” he said. “But I’m not going to be influenced in even the slightest by what any other person says.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta, Wagstaffe and Jenkins all said that in the wake of Good’s killing and the subsequent decision by the FBI to shut out Minnesota investigators, they have real concerns about their ability to probe potential use-of-force incidents involving federal authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wagstaffe noted that federal prosecutors generally are not empowered to investigate murders — local district attorneys are. Jenkins said if federal authorities take control of a scene and refuse to share evidence, “it would nearly negate our ability to prosecute.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Bonta said that what should happen after a federal agent uses deadly force is a joint investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We should have access to the scene. We should have access to the evidence. We should get cooperation from the federal government,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has made moves to push back on what Democrats here see as ICE’s overreach: Last year, the governor signed a law \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12044570/california-bill-would-prohibit-ice-officers-from-wearing-masks-in-the-state\">barring local and federal law enforcement from wearing a mask\u003c/a> while on duty, a law that’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-01-14/federal-challenge-california-ice-law-enforcement-mask-ban\">now tied up in court\u003c/a>. The author of that bill, state Sen. Scott Wiener, is currently pushing \u003ca href=\"https://sd11.senate.ca.gov/news/senator-wiener-announces-legislation-hold-federal-other-officers-accountable-lawlessness\">legislation\u003c/a> to make it easier for Californians to sue over violations of constitutional rights, like illegal search and seizures or retaliating against someone for exercising their First Amendment rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058608\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058608\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/GettyImages-2237687579-scaled-e1759877176351.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Federal agents confront protesters outside of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building on Sept. 28, 2025, in Portland, Oregon. In a Truth Social post on Sept. 27, President Donald Trump authorized the deployment of military troops to “protect war-ravaged Portland, and any of our ICE Facilities under siege from attack by Antifa, and other domestic terrorists.” \u003ccite>(Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bonta urged Californians to report federal misconduct to a new \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/reportmisconduct\">website\u003c/a> his office created, including video of encounters with ICE, which the public \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/reportmisconduct\">is allowed to record.\u003c/a> But he also encouraged protesters and others not to take the bait if federal agents appear to be provoking a violent response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You cannot, and you should not, assault or strike or commit a crime against an officer. You just can’t, no matter what they did in terms of approaching you. 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