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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/u-s-immigration-and-customs-enforcement\">Immigration and Customs Enforcement\u003c/a> again has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101913163/ice-looks-to-expand-detention-centers-including-in-california\">expanded in California’s Central Valley,\u003c/a> activating a new 700-bed detention facility operated by the for-profit prison company GEO Group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates say the agency began transferring immigrant detainees to the McFarland facility last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The facility, called \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/detain/detention-facilities/central-valley-annex\">Central Valley Annex\u003c/a>, brings the total number of active detention centers in California to eight, up from six at the beginning of 2025. They are all operated by private companies and they have a total capacity of nearly 10,000 beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both of the detention centers that opened since \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">President Donald Trump\u003c/a> took office had been used as private prisons until \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101911292/whats-driving-californias-shrinking-prison-population\">California’s incarcerated population\u003c/a> fell to a level that allowed the Newsom administration to end those contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest figures show an average of about 5,337 people are being held in California immigration detention facilities, according to \u003ca href=\"http://detentionreports.com\">DetentionReports.com\u003c/a>. That number is up 72% from the average daily population of about 3,104 individuals being held in California in April 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This newest facility is part of a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/10/ice-detention-center-inspections/\">cluster of detention centers in Kern County\u003c/a>, which includes the Golden State Annex in McFarland. It is unclear if GEO obtained conditional use permits or business licenses from the city of McFarland to start detaining immigrants at Central Valley Annex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038090\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/CMDetentionICE1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038090\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/CMDetentionICE1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/CMDetentionICE1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/CMDetentionICE1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/CMDetentionICE1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/CMDetentionICE1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/CMDetentionICE1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/CMDetentionICE1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People detained inside the Golden State Annex, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility run by The GEO Group, in McFarland on March 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Larry Valenzuela/CalMatters/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Advocates for detained immigrants said they did not have an opportunity to raise their concerns at public hearings before ICE began using the new site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t want another ICE detention center in California, or anywhere else for that matter,” said anti-ICE detention advocate Edwin Carmona-Cruz about the new Central Valley Annex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Central Valley Annex is adjacent to Geo Group’s Golden State Annex, which is holding an average daily population of 565 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until 2020, GEO Group operated a cluster of private prisons in McFarland for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. The writing was on the wall for their closure as private prisons because Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/news/2019/09/27/california-department-of-corrections-and-rehabilitation-ends-contract-with-private-prison/\">had committed to ending those contracts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Democrats in 2019 tried to stop GEO Group from turning the sites into immigrant detention facilities by \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2019/10/11/governor-newsom-signs-ab-32-to-halt-private-for-profit-prisons-and-immigration-detention-facilities-in-california/\">passing a law to prohibit that use\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE signed a 15-year contract worth $1.5 billion with GEO for two McFarland sites and one in Bakersfield just weeks before the law went into effect. In 2023, a federal court found the state law unconstitutional, ruling it infringed on federal authority to enforce immigration law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, the McFarland mayor resigned because the city’s planning commission deadlocked on GEO’s proposal to convert two of its sites there into immigration detention facilities. Then-Mayor Manuel Cantu Jr. \u003ca href=\"https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/politics/immigration/2020/02/19/mcfarland-denies-geo-plan-convert-prisons-into-immigration-detention-centers/4792122002/\">told the Desert Sun the day after the vote\u003c/a> that the small city relies on the approximately $2 million annually that GEO pays in property taxes and utility fees to provide vital municipal services like water, sewer and public safety. [aside postID=news_12072450 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/CoreCivicKernCountyGetty.jpg']The private prison company appealed, though, and eventually was able to move forward in 2020 with opening Golden State Annex for its work with ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>GEO told the planning commission in 2020 that opening both the Golden State and Central Valley annexes would bring the town $511,000 annually in mitigation payments, along with well-paying jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB29\">state law requires\u003c/a> a city or county to provide a 180-day notice and hold public hearings before approving or allowing the reuse of a facility for immigration detention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city clerk and city manager of McFarland, a small agricultural town with a population of about 15,000, did not immediately respond to phone calls and questions from CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jason Sweeney, a spokesperson for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said the facility opened “under an existing intergovernmental services agreement” that “has been in place for several years.” He said the Central Valley Annex began housing detainees within the last two weeks and that the agency would add the new site to its bi-weekly reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>California’s newest detention centers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Last year, CoreCivic, another private prison operator, opened a 2,560-bed immigrant detention center in California City, in eastern Kern County, on the site of another shuttered state prison. It’s the largest ICE detention center in the state. The company began detaining immigrants there in late August 2025 without acquiring necessary paperwork from California City, contributing to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/11/ice-california-city-detainee-lawsuit/\">legal and community opposition\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to GEO Group’s website, the newly activated Central Valley Annex facility is accredited by the American Correctional Association and the National Commission on Correctional Health Care. It previously housed detainees from the U.S. Marshals Service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE did not immediately respond to a question about whether the facility is now holding both U.S. Marshal and immigrant detainees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The unprecedented growth in people being held in ICE detention centers nationwide has been fueled by an influx of $45 billion delivered through the spending law Trump signed last year that he referred to as the “One Big Beautiful Bill.” The Trump administration is aiming to hold more than 100,000 immigrant detainees on any given day as part of his massive deportation campaign. When he took office in 2025, ICE was holding an average of about 40,000 people per day.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>State oversight of conditions inside\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Carmona-Cruz, the co-executive director of the California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice, said people being sent to Central Valley Annex “are at risk of the same terrible abuses and inhumane conditions that people in the ICE detention center next door have faced for years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, detainees at the Mesa Verde and Golden State Annex facilities — the others under the same contract as Central Valley Annex — have alleged abuse and dangerous conditions, including medical neglect, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/capitol/2024/07/detainees-immigrants-labor-rights/\">being paid only $1 a day for labor\u003c/a>, being held in solitary confinement after reporting sexual abuse and inadequate food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to some of those previous allegations, Chris V. Ferreira, the spokesman for GEO Group, has previously told CalMatters that his company “strongly disagrees with these baseless allegations, which are part of a long-standing, politically motivated, and radical campaign to abolish ICE and end federal immigration detention by attacking the federal government’s immigration facility contractors.” He did not immediately respond to a request for comment for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people being sent there are our community members, neighbors, family members,” Carmona-Cruz said. “ICE and GEO Group are incapable of meeting the human needs of the people they detain. ICE detention is not only unjust and unnecessary — it is deadly. Nearly 50 people have died in ICE detention since Trump took office again, and it’s only getting worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the California Attorney General’s Office \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/04/ice-detention-center-investigation/\">released a report\u003c/a> raising concerns about health care inside ICE facilities. At that time, there were only \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/immigration-detention-2025.pdf\">six detention centers operating in the state\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was updated on April 24 to include comment from Immigration and Customs Enforcement.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CalMatters reporters Sergio Olmos and Nigel Duara contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2026/04/new-ice-detention-center-mcfarland/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The private prison company appealed, though, and eventually was able to move forward in 2020 with opening Golden State Annex for its work with ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>GEO told the planning commission in 2020 that opening both the Golden State and Central Valley annexes would bring the town $511,000 annually in mitigation payments, along with well-paying jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB29\">state law requires\u003c/a> a city or county to provide a 180-day notice and hold public hearings before approving or allowing the reuse of a facility for immigration detention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city clerk and city manager of McFarland, a small agricultural town with a population of about 15,000, did not immediately respond to phone calls and questions from CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jason Sweeney, a spokesperson for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said the facility opened “under an existing intergovernmental services agreement” that “has been in place for several years.” He said the Central Valley Annex began housing detainees within the last two weeks and that the agency would add the new site to its bi-weekly reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>California’s newest detention centers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Last year, CoreCivic, another private prison operator, opened a 2,560-bed immigrant detention center in California City, in eastern Kern County, on the site of another shuttered state prison. It’s the largest ICE detention center in the state. The company began detaining immigrants there in late August 2025 without acquiring necessary paperwork from California City, contributing to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/11/ice-california-city-detainee-lawsuit/\">legal and community opposition\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to GEO Group’s website, the newly activated Central Valley Annex facility is accredited by the American Correctional Association and the National Commission on Correctional Health Care. It previously housed detainees from the U.S. Marshals Service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE did not immediately respond to a question about whether the facility is now holding both U.S. Marshal and immigrant detainees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The unprecedented growth in people being held in ICE detention centers nationwide has been fueled by an influx of $45 billion delivered through the spending law Trump signed last year that he referred to as the “One Big Beautiful Bill.” The Trump administration is aiming to hold more than 100,000 immigrant detainees on any given day as part of his massive deportation campaign. When he took office in 2025, ICE was holding an average of about 40,000 people per day.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>State oversight of conditions inside\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Carmona-Cruz, the co-executive director of the California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice, said people being sent to Central Valley Annex “are at risk of the same terrible abuses and inhumane conditions that people in the ICE detention center next door have faced for years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, detainees at the Mesa Verde and Golden State Annex facilities — the others under the same contract as Central Valley Annex — have alleged abuse and dangerous conditions, including medical neglect, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/capitol/2024/07/detainees-immigrants-labor-rights/\">being paid only $1 a day for labor\u003c/a>, being held in solitary confinement after reporting sexual abuse and inadequate food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to some of those previous allegations, Chris V. 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That concern has been amplified by additional visits to the Oroville courthouse by federal officers,” Sharif Elmallah, the court executive officer of the Superior Court of Butte County, told the council of mostly judges and attorneys Friday. “We know that when individuals fear potential arrest and enforcement actions, many will choose not to appear, even when required to by court order.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elmallah said immigration enforcement officers apprehended several people who had cases before the court in Oroville on a single day in July. 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But immigrant advocates, public defenders and others say the state law lacks teeth, arguing that ICE has flouted it without any repercussions so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, a bill working its way through the state Legislature aims to strengthen the ban on courthouse civil arrests and expand protections for people going to and from courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the Judicial Council’s separate new rule, the state’s 58 trial courts starting in June will be required to track and report whether officers identified themselves, presented a warrant or took an individual into custody, as well as the date and location of each incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the move will help state officials understand the scope of the issue, it won’t protect people’s fundamental right to access the courts, said Tina Rosales-Torres, a policy advocate with the Western Center on Law and Poverty who estimates that ICE has conducted hundreds of arrests at California courts since January 2025, when President Donald Trump took office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a good first step. 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In San Bernardino, \u003ca href=\"https://abc7.com/post/advocates-raise-alarm-federal-arrests-rancho-cucamonga-courthouse/18863326/\">TV cameras filmed\u003c/a> agents in black vests restraining several men at the Rancho Cucamonga court parking lot in a single day this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some attorneys now warn clients they could see immigration enforcement in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Witnesses are failing to show up, and others are opting out of fighting legitimate cases, said Kate Chatfield, executive director of the California Public Defenders Association. 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And the process that creates it is only legal in a handful of states.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A man, who is part of \u003ca href=\"https://ndlon.org/plaintiff-in-landmark-federal-lawsuit-challenging-ice-raids-throughout-la-arrested-in-apparent-violation-of-immigration-court-order/\">a class action lawsuit\u003c/a> challenging immigration raids in Los Angeles, has been detained again by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2 class=\"ArtP-headline\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kvpr.org/community/2026-04-08/human-composting-along-san-joaquin-river-sparks-debate-but-whats-behind-it\">\u003cstrong>‘Human composting’ along San Joaquin River sparks debate\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The wind moves softly through the trees at Sumner Peck Ranch, along the San Joaquin River north of Fresno. Much of the soil here looks as normal as one would expect soil to look – green and earthy – but some of this is different. It’s been composted not from food scraps, but from human bodies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some people call it “human compost,” but Sharon Weaver prefers a different term. “It is technically called natural organic reduction soil,” said Weaver, who is executive director of the non-profit San Joaquin River Parkway and Conservation Trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The process is an environmental alternative to burial or cremation, and the soil that’s produced is marketed as safe and rich in nutrients. “The compost that we were using here looks exactly the same, feels exactly the same,” Weaver said. “It just happens to be made in a different way.” Weaver approved of using this compost along the San Joaquin River because, she said, it would help restore the land. “We were approaching it simply from a soil health standpoint,” Weaver said. “The lens we were looking at it through was, ‘Would it be beneficial for the river environment?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The practice had been happening for more than a year. But last month, it became the center of a public conversation. That’s because Fresno County Supervisor Garry Bredefeld caught word of it. He immediately called a press conference to speak out – not just against the soil, but also about where it was being used. “When you take that without telling anybody it’s being used on public lands, and you just do it, I think that’s wrong,” Bredefeld said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Picayune Rancheria of the Chukchansi Indians also opposed the practice. “The idea that composted human remains would be distributed across these lands where our ancestors lived, prayed, and were laid to rest there is deeply troubling and profoundly disrespectful,” a tribe spokesperson wrote in a press release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, the county handed Weaver a cease-and-desist letter to stop using this soil along the San Joaquin River – and she did stop. The soil is no longer being applied there. Still, green burials like this are gaining popularity around the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Plaintiff in immigration lawsuit detained again by ICE\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A man who is part of a class action lawsuit challenging immigration raids in Los Angeles \u003ca href=\"https://ndlon.org/plaintiff-in-landmark-federal-lawsuit-challenging-ice-raids-throughout-la-arrested-in-apparent-violation-of-immigration-court-order/\">has been detained again\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Isaac Antonio Villegas Molina was arrested Thursday during a routine check-in with ICE. His attorney Stacy Tolchin says this arrest is no coincidence. “He absolutely feels that he’s being retaliated against because of his role in the litigation,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Villegas Molina was originally arrested last June while waiting at a bus stop in Pasadena with other day laborers. That’s when he joined other plaintiffs in a lawsuit claiming the Trump administration’s immigration raids are race-based and discriminatory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case is still playing out in the courts. And Tolchin believes his most recent arrest was retaliation for the lawsuit. “We actually believe this is related to his position as a plaintiff in the raid litigation, Vazquez vs. Perdomo. And he’s also scheduled for a hearing on the motion to terminate. And we think this is really about ICE trying to put him into custody and to keep him detained so that they can choose a more favorable judge for themselves,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Villegas Molina is currently being held at the Adelanto detention facility in San Bernardino County. The Department of Homeland Security said in \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-04-17/california-plaintiff-in-lawsuit-challenging-immigration-raids-arrested-by-ice\">an email to the LA Times\u003c/a> that Villegas was arrested again “after multiple violations of his supervised release —including missing required check-ins.” Tolchin disputes those claims.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077353/ice-airports-tsa-trump-deployed-shutdown-sfo-incident-your-rights-what-to-know\">\u003cem>Read in English\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Desde \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/03/13/nx-s1-5744648/as-partial-shutdown-drags-on-morning-edition-checks-out-tsa-lines-at-3-airports\">el 14 de febrero\u003c/a>, el personal de la \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/air-travel\">Administración de Seguridad en el Transporte\u003c/a> (o TSA por sus siglas en inglés) ha estado trabajando sin sueldo debido al cierre parcial del Gobierno que sigue vigente; y, dado que muchos han decidido no acudir al trabajo, los pasajeros en todo Estados Unidos han tenido que \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/03/21/nx-s1-5755796/airport-security-tsa-lines-travel-tips\">esperar durante horas en las filas de control de seguridad\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El pasado fin de semana, el presidente Donald Trump anunció que, a partir del lunes , se desplegarían agentes del Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (o ICE por sus siglas en inglés) en los aeropuertos para apoyar las operaciones de la TSA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La administración de Trump dijo que los agentes de ICE permanecerían en servicio para \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077292/is-ice-at-sfo-heres-what-we-know-about-videos-of-woman-being-forcefully-detained\">ayudar con la capacidad de personal de seguridad en los aeropuertos\u003c/a>. Pero la presencia de los agentes de ICE ha \u003ca href=\"https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/immigration/2026/03/23/ice-officers-at-airports-could-sow-fear-latino-group-warns/89294194007/?gnt-cfr=1&gca-cat=p&gca-uir=true&gca-epti=z116320p119050l004550c119050e1123xxv116320d--45--b--45--&gca-ft=168&gca-ds=sophi\">despertado el temor y la incertidumbre\u003c/a> entre los viajeros.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El Aeropuerto Internacional de San Francisco, el más grande del Área de la Bahía, se ha librado de las largas esperas gracias a que los controles de seguridad están \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/flysfo/p/DWHseVzDnnc/\">a cargo de una empresa privada\u003c/a> en lugar de la TSA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sin embargo, el domingo por la noche, en un incidente \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/1s1a3lq/ice_already_causing_havoc_at_sfo/\">captado en vídeo\u003c/a>, se vio a agentes de inmigración vestidos de civiles en el Aeropuerto Internacional de San Francisco (o SFO por sus siglas en inglés) \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077292/is-ice-at-sfo-heres-what-we-know-about-videos-of-woman-being-forcefully-detained\">tratando con fuerza a una mujer delante de su hijo pequeño\u003c/a>. El SFO no figuraba en la lista de los 14 aeropuertos \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/tsa-wait-times-ice-airports-03-23-26?post-id=cmn37qf65000q3b6rfo32wpep\">obtenida por la cadena de noticias CNN\u003c/a> en los que iba a intervenir el ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ir directo a:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#ICE\">\u003cstrong>¿Por qué estaba el ICE en el SFO con respecto al domingo?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#aeropuerto\">\u003cstrong>¿Tengo que responder a las preguntas del ICE en un aeropuerto?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#grabar\">\u003cstrong>¿Es legal grabar al ICE en un aeropuerto?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077951\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077951\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/sfo-international-terminal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/sfo-international-terminal.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/sfo-international-terminal-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/sfo-international-terminal-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">La terminal internacional del Aeropuerto Internacional de San Francisco, con respecto al 10 de diciembre de 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Entonces, ¿qué debe saber ahora mismo sobre el ICE en los aeropuertos de EE. UU.? Siga leyendo para conocer lo que sabemos sobre los agentes de inmigración, los viajes aéreos y sus derechos ante los agentes del ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenga en cuenta que la siguiente información no constituye asesoramiento legal, y que debe dirigir cualquier pregunta específica sobre su situación particular a un abogado.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>¿A qué aeropuertos de EE. UU. se ha desplegado al ICE?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>De acuerdo con \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/22/us/politics/ice-airports-homan-trump.html?smid=url-share\">información publicada por The New York Times\u003c/a>, 14 aeropuertos de todo el país contarán con agentes del ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/tsa-wait-times-ice-airports-03-23-26?post-id=cmn37qf65000q3b6rfo32wpep\">La cadena CNN informó\u003c/a> de que entre estos se encuentran el Aeropuerto Internacional O’Hare de Chicago, el Aeropuerto Internacional Hartsfield-Jackson de Atlanta, los aeropuertos internacionales John F. Kennedy y LaGuardia de Nueva York, y el Aeropuerto Internacional Louis Armstrong de Nueva Orleans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ningún aeropuerto de California figura en la lista actual de CNN.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El martes, un portavoz de la TSA confirmó a KQED que el ICE se desplegaría en “los aeropuertos que se ven afectados negativamente” por las ausencias y dimisiones de la TSA, y que ninguno de ellos se encontraba en el Área de la Bahía.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"ICE\">\u003c/a>¿Por qué estaba el ICE en el aeropuerto de San Francisco el domingo?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>En unas imágenes grabadas alrededor de las 10 de la noche del domingo y publicadas en las redes sociales, se ve a unos hombres vestidos con ropa oscura en el aeropuerto de San Francisco sacando a una mujer que lloraba de un banquillo de la terminal y empujándola luego a una silla de ruedas, mientras se oye llorar cerca a una niña de unos 10 años. Se puede ver a agentes de la policía de San Francisco observando la escena mientras se producía la detención.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los hombres no llevan insignias visibles ni distintivos de la agencia, pero el Departamento de Seguridad Nacional (o DHS por sus siglas en inglés) \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/dhsgov/status/2036158826341077203?s=46&t=PMxn5DJx4Cr-fWgaQBUvVA\">afirmó\u003c/a> el lunes en la red social X que, de hecho, se trataba de agentes de ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Según un portavoz del DHS, la mujer y su hija fueron detenidas en el aeropuerto y estaban siendo “escoltadas a la terminal internacional para ser procesadas” cuando la mujer intentó huir. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077292/is-ice-at-sfo-heres-what-we-know-about-videos-of-woman-being-forcefully-detained\">Lea más información sobre el incidente del domingo por la noche en el aeropuerto de San Francisco\u003c/a> (SFO). Según informó The New York Times el martes por la noche, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/us/tsa-data-ice-deportation-san-francisco-airport.html\">el ICE había sido alertado inicialmente\u003c/a> de la presencia de ambas en el SFO por la TSA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Según \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/flysfo/p/DWPA-h5D_QG/\">un comunicado emitido por el SFO\u003c/a>, el aeropuerto “no participó en este incidente ni fue notificado de antemano”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Entendemos que los agentes federales transportaban a dos personas en un vuelo con destino al extranjero cuando se produjo este incidente”, señala el comunicado. “Creemos que se trata de un incidente aislado y no tenemos motivos para sospechar que se esté llevando a cabo una operación de control más amplia en el Aeropuerto Internacional de San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DWPGTBvmGX9/\">El alcalde de San Francisco, Daniel Lurie, se hizo eco del comunicado del aeropuerto el lunes en una publicación en las redes sociales\u003c/a>. Lurie afirmó en su comunicado que las fuerzas del orden locales “no participan en la aplicación de la ley federal de inmigración civil”, \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2026/03/attorneys-say-sfpd-may-have-violated-the-law-during-ice-arrest-at-sfo/\">aunque algunos abogados de inmigración han cuestionado, no obstante, la presencia de la Policía de San Francisco\u003c/a> (SFPD) durante la detención.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hasta el lunes por la tarde, los defensores locales de los derechos de los inmigrantes afirmaron que \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/sfrrn_/p/DWPQRS4lMjl/\">seguían evaluando la situación\u003c/a> y trabajando para “confirmar todos los hechos relacionados con este incidente”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tras haber matado a personas en nuestras calles y detenido a ciudadanos estadounidenses, el ICE ha perdido toda credibilidad y confianza ante la opinión pública”, afirmaron el representante del Área de la Bahía Kevin Mullin y la presidenta emérita de la Cámara de Representantes, Nancy Pelosi, en una declaración conjunta. “Exigimos respuestas inmediatas sobre el estado de la madre y su hijo, así como sobre los motivos de su detención”.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>¿Puede el ICE detener a personas en el aeropuerto?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Sí, existen casos documentados de \u003ca href=\"https://www.nilc.org/resources/community-alert-immigration-arrests-at-airports/\">detenciones por parte del ICE en aeropuertos\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jonathan Blazer, director de estrategias fronterizas y asesor principal de la Unión Americana por las Libertades Civiles (o ACLU por sus siglas en inglés), afirmó que “no hay nada que prohíba categóricamente a ICE entrar en un aeropuerto en calidad de agente de control de inmigración”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Por ejemplo, señaló Blazer, los agentes de ICE han utilizado vuelos comerciales anteriormente para transportar a personas en vuelos de deportación, o para trasladar a personas detenidas a centros de detención de inmigrantes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077958\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077958\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/United-Airlines.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/United-Airlines.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/United-Airlines-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los pasajeros esperan su vuelo en el Aeropuerto Internacional de San Francisco el 10 de diciembre de 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Además, tal y como informó por primera vez \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/us/politics/immigration-tsa-passenger-data.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9U8.1lIj.Qa1WfLVCwcJB&smid=url-share\">The New York Times\u003c/a> en diciembre de 2025, el TSA ha compartido con el ICE información sobre pasajeros de vuelos que se cree que están sujetos a órdenes de deportación, facilitando así a los agentes de inmigración la realización de detenciones en el aeropuerto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sin embargo, Blazer afirmó que el despliegue del ICE en los aeropuertos de esta semana —la simple presencia con este fin, de forma no selectiva y en gran número— es «sin precedentes»\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Según \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/ice-tsa-wait-times-shutdown-03-24-26?post-id=cmn48kb0y00823b6p6u9q5bxl\">la cadena CNN el martes por la mañana\u003c/a>, Trump dijo que los agentes seguirán deteniendo a personas indocumentadas, pero dijo sobre los agentes del ICE en los aeropuertos “no es por eso por lo que están allí; en realidad están allí para ayudar”. (La mayoría de los agentes del TSA \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/what-do-when-encountering-law-enforcement-airports-and-other-ports-entry-us#what-types-of-law-enforcement-officers-and-other-government-officials-could-i-encounter-during-the-security-screening-process-at-the-airport\">no son agentes de policía\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Parte de lo que resulta tan complicado aquí es que la administración Trump no ha aclarado cuáles son las competencias que está otorgando a ICE como parte de esta misión”, dijo Blazer. En su resumen de \u003ca href=\"https://www.nilc.org/resources/community-alert-immigration-arrests-at-airports/\">los riesgos de los viajes aéreos\u003c/a>, el Centro Nacional de Leyes de Inmigración (o NILC por sus siglas en inglés) señaló que, para las personas indocumentadas, con estatus migratorio temporal o sujetas a una orden de deportación, existe “un riesgo significativo de ser detenidas en un aeropuerto de EE. UU.”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sin embargo, el NILC también señaló que “todos los no ciudadanos corren algún riesgo” al viajar por los aeropuertos de EE. UU., incluidos aquellos con residencia permanente, si tienen determinadas condenas penales o si gozan del estatus de Acción Diferida para los Llegados en la Infancia (o DACA por sus siglas en inglés).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los defensores animan a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DWMjSDSgeoZ/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D\">los pasajeros que no sean ciudadanos estadounidenses a consultar con un abogado\u003c/a> sobre su situación particular antes de viajar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blazer, de la ACLU, señaló que, aunque la CBP tiene mucho “poder a la hora de controlar a las personas que llegan en un vuelo internacional”, eso no es aplicable a los \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/cbp-cant-detain-domestic-flight-passengers-refusing-suspicionless-id-checks#:~:text=CBP%20is%20bound%20by%20those,actions%20that%20participation%20is%20voluntary.\">vuelos nacionales\u003c/a>. Por ejemplo, ni la CBP ni el ICE pueden inspeccionar sus dispositivos electrónicos sin una orden judicial en un vuelo nacional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicole Hallett, directora de la Clínica de Derechos de los Inmigrantes y profesora clínica de Derecho en la Universidad de Chicago, declaró al \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/tips/ice-agents-tsa-airports/\">Washington Post\u003c/a> que el ICE no puede registrar las pertenencias personales de un pasajero sin una orden judicial, y solo puede hacerlo si actúa en nombre de una agencia que sí pueda, como la CBP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Si están actuando como agentes de la TSA, deben seguir las normas de la TSA. Si actúan como agentes de la CBP y realizan labores de la Patrulla Fronteriza, entonces tienen la autoridad que tiene la Patrulla Fronteriza”, dijo Hallett.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Y si simplemente se encuentran en el aeropuerto como agentes de ICE, entonces tienen la misma autoridad legal que cualquier agente de ICE que se encuentre en un lugar público”, afirmó. (En cualquier caso, señaló que ICE puede \u003ca href=\"https://archive.ph/YWJ1z#selection-853.62-853.119\">acercarse a los pasajeros en cualquier lugar\u003c/a> del aeropuerto, incluso después del control de seguridad.)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>¿Qué debo hacer si ICE se me acerca en el aeropuerto?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>En los puestos de control fronterizos, incluidos los aeropuertos, los agentes pueden hacer preguntas, realizar registros personales y detener a personas con amplia discrecionalidad, explicó \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/09/05/nx-s1-5517998/ice-arrest-rules-explained\">a al cadena radial NPR\u003c/a> Ahilan Arulanantham, codirector del Centro de Derecho y Política Migratoria de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de California en Los Angeles (o UCLA, pos sus siglas en inglés).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sin embargo, Blazer señaló que, para que ICE pueda detener a alguien por una infracción de inmigración sin una orden judicial, \u003ca href=\"https://immigrantjustice.org/sites/default/files/content-type/page/documents/2025-01/Castanon-Nava_training_slides_2025-01-16-english.pdf\">debería demostrar que existen motivos fundados\u003c/a> para creer que la persona se encuentra en EE. UU. infringiendo las leyes de inmigración del país, y que es probable que huya antes de que se pueda obtener una orden de detención. Según él, \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/five-individuals-launch-class-action-lawsuit-over-warrantless-immigration-arrests-in-north-carolina\">recientemente se han producido litigios en todo el país\u003c/a> que cuestionan algunas de las detenciones sin orden judicial llevadas a cabo por ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077962\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077962\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/flight-boards.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/flight-boards.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/flight-boards-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Unos pasajeros pasan junto a un panel de información de vuelos en la Terminal 1 “Harvey Milk” del Aeropuerto Internacional de San Francisco el 10 de diciembre de 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Los agentes del ICE “no tienen ninguna autoridad adicional en un aeropuerto”, afirmó Blazer. Pero, en realidad, señaló, las garantías constitucionales y los derechos que tienen las personas pueden resultar “mucho más complicados de ejercer” en el contexto de un aeropuerto para la mayoría de la gente, que no solo tiene que lidiar con la presión añadida de perder vuelos caros, sino también con la impaciencia de los demás pasajeros en la fila de seguridad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Por ejemplo, las personas, ya sean ciudadanos o inmigrantes, tienen derecho a preguntar a un agente de inmigración “¿Puedo marcharme?”. Si no tienen una sospecha concreta, individualizada y razonable de que ha cometido un delito, no pueden seguir interrogándole y usted puede marcharse, explicó Blazer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pero pensemos sobre cómo funciona esto en el contexto del aeropuerto», dijo. ““¿Puedo marcharme?” Y marcharme significa que probablemente esté saliendo del aeropuerto para alejarme de una situación, y en ese momento podría perder mi vuelo”.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"aeropuerto\">\u003c/a>¿Tengo que responder a las preguntas de ICE en el aeropuerto?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Si un agente de ICE le hace preguntas en el aeropuerto, usted “tiene el mismo derecho a guardar silencio que en la vía pública””, afirmó Blazer. “Nada cambia por el mero hecho de estar en un aeropuerto”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero este es otro ejemplo de cómo la presión del entorno aeroportuario puede afectar a su situación, señaló Blazer. Si decide ejercer su derecho a guardar silencio, el agente puede retirarle de la fila de seguridad e intentar hacerle más preguntas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tenemos los mismos derechos, pero en ese entorno, el ejercitar esos derechos conlleva costos adicionales” , dijo Blazer. “Muchas personas en esa situación, por su propio interés… ‘siguen la corriente’ en la mayor medida posible”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>¿Qué pasa si ICE me pide la identificación?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Según \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/news/2026/03/23/ice-agents-airports-tsa-my-rights/89278550007/\">una información publicada por USA Today\u003c/a>, los viajeros deben presentar un documento de identidad y someterse al control de seguridad de la TSA para embarcar en un vuelo. Sin embargo, por lo general, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ilrc.org/community-resources/know-your-rights-faq#item-5131\">tanto los ciudadanos como los inmigrantes\u003c/a> tienen derecho a guardar silencio cuando se dirigen a las fuerzas del orden, incluido ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El Asian Law Caucus ha señalado que, si cree que va a ser detenido por ICE, \u003ca href=\"https://www.asianlawcaucus.org/news-resources/guides-reports/know-your-rights-at-airports\">debe ejercer su derecho a guardar silencio y no responder a ninguna pregunta\u003c/a>. La organización también ha indicado que no debe firmar ningún documento sin que lo revise un abogado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blazer señaló que, según \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12065885/ice-immigration-us-citizens-detained-carry-passports-documentation-green-card\">la ley federal\u003c/a>, las personas con residencia permanente legal u otros visados que les otorguen un estatus legal deben llevar consigo una prueba de dicho estatus, como su tarjeta de residencia. “Y puede que les convenga, para evitar más interrogatorios indebidos o detenciones ilegales, responder a esas preguntas y mostrar dicha prueba de estatus”, afirmó Blazer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Así que, aunque usted tiene derecho a no hacerlo, quiero dejar claro que las personas tendrán que tomar una decisión personal sobre si les conviene ejercer ese derecho”, dijo. Especialmente si son titulares adultos de tarjetas de residente permanente o cualquier otra persona sujeta a una ley federal que les obligue a llevar consigo una prueba de su estatus en todo momento”.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"grabar\">\u003c/a>¿Es legal grabar a los agentes de ICE?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Tomar fotografías y grabar vídeos de lo que es claramente visible en espacios públicos es \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/issues/free-speech/photographers-rights/filming-and-photographing-police\">un derecho constitucional\u003c/a>, y eso incluye a la policía y a otros funcionarios públicos en el ejercicio de sus funciones”, señala la guía de la ACLU.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Y aunque no existe una sentencia del Tribunal Supremo que establezca de forma inequívoca el derecho, amparado por la Primera Enmienda, a grabar a los agentes del orden, “los siete Tribunales Federales de Circuito de EE. UU. que han examinado la cuestión han afirmado prácticamente unánimemente que existe \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069590/are-you-allowed-to-record-ice\">un derecho, amparado por la Primera Enmienda, a grabar a la policía y a observarla\u003c/a>”, declaró a principios de este año el reportero de justicia penal C.J. Ciaramella, colaborador de Reason, en el podcast Close All Tabs de KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077964\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077964\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/border-patrol-bovino.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1025\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/border-patrol-bovino.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/border-patrol-bovino-160x107.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gregory Bovino, excomandante general de la Patrulla Fronteriza (en el centro), se dirige junto a agentes federales hacia el Edificio Federal Edward R. Roybal después de que agentes de la Patrulla Fronteriza de EE. UU. realizaran una demostración de fuerza frente al Museo Nacional Japonés-Americano, donde el gobernador Newsom ofrecía una rueda de prensa con respecto a la redistribución de distritos el jueves 14 de agosto de 2025, en Los Ángeles. \u003ccite>(Carlin Stiehl / Los Angeles Times vía Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sin embargo, los aeropuertos podrían ser un entorno potencialmente más complicado para grabar, señaló Blazer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No es que la Primera Enmienda no se aplique en los aeropuertos, pero estos no son un espacio público tradicional como lo son los parques”, explicó Blazer. Por ejemplo, en algunas filas de seguridad de la TSA hay un aviso que dice “prohibido tomar fotos”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rara vez hacen cumplir esa norma, pero eso solo demuestra que ya se trata de un entorno más regulado en el que pueden imponer ciertas restricciones”, señaló Blazer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sí es legal grabar a las fuerzas del orden en “cualquier lugar abierto y visible mientras desempeñan sus funciones”, dijo Blazer, haciendo eco de las directrices establecidas en \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/issues/free-speech/photographers-rights/filming-and-photographing-police\">esta exhaustiva guía de la ACLU\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pero, al mismo tiempo, puede ser permitido que los operadores aeroportuarios impongan ciertas normas razonables, y esas normas podrían incluir la restricción de tomar fotografías en áreas particulares del aeropuerto” dijo Blazer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>De hecho, podría ser difícil discutir con un funcionario del aeropuerto que le diga que no tome fotos en una zona determinada, señaló Blazer. Y podría haber una batalla legal después de los hechos, “si una persona no obedece esa orden y es detenida o retirada de la fila” señaló.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pero creo que la verdad es que, en un entorno aeroportuario, resulta más difícil ejercer ese derecho”, afirmó.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11871364/recording-the-police-what-to-know-and-how-to-stay-safe-doing-it\">Los vídeos de testigos presenciales también ofrecen importantes narrativas alternativas\u003c/a> a las versiones oficiales de las fuerzas del orden. Tras el tiroteo mortal de Alex Pretti a manos de agentes de ICE en Minnesota a principios de este año, los funcionarios de la administración Trump afirmaron inmediatamente que Pretti era un “terrorista naciona” que pretendía “masacrar” a los agentes, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/01/25/nx-s1-5687875/minneapolis-shooting-minnesota-ice-alex-pretti-dhs-investigation\">afirmaciones contradichas\u003c/a> por los múltiples vídeos de testigos presenciales grabados durante el tiroteo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sin embargo, funcionarios de la administración Trump han \u003ca href=\"https://abc3340.com/news/nation-world/secretary-kristi-noem-addresses-surge-in-attacks-on-ice-agents-in-tampa-dhs-us-immigration-and-customs-enforcement-agents-florida-department-of-homeland-security-july-13-2025\">calificado la filmación de ICE como “violencia” y “doxing”\u003c/a>, y \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069590/are-you-allowed-to-record-ice\">los estadounidenses se han enfrentado a la detención\u003c/a> por parte de ICE \u003ca href=\"https://www.fox9.com/news/ice-detains-woodbury-man-filming-agents\">tras filmar a los agentes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Así que, en definitiva, aunque grabar a ICE pueda ser un derecho constitucional, también conlleva riesgos cada vez mayores. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11871364/recording-the-police-what-to-know-and-how-to-stay-safe-doing-it\">Lea más sobre la logística, y los riesgos, de grabar a agentes de las fuerzas del orden como los de ICE\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>¿Qué dicen los defensores de los inmigrantes sobre viajar en estos momentos?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>El grupo de defensa de San Francisco \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/sfrrn_/p/DWPQRS4lMjl/?img_index=2\">Mission Action\u003c/a> advierte de que los no ciudadanos que actualmente no tienen estatus legal “deberían considerar cuidadosamente los riesgos de viajar en avión, incluidos los vuelos nacionales dentro de los EE. UU.”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Informes recientes apuntan a un aumento de los riesgos, entre ellos la posibilidad de que la TSA esté compartiendo información sobre los viajeros con el ICE, lo que podría exponer a las personas a medidas legales”, se lee \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/sfrrn_/p/DWPQRS4lMjl/?img_index=2\">en su publicación en redes sociales\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077966\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077966\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Atlanta-police.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Atlanta-police.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Atlanta-police-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Atlanta-police-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Agentes del Departamento de Policía de Atlanta observan con respecto a los viajeros que hacen largas colas en el Aeropuerto Internacional Hartsfield-Jackson de Atlanta el 23 de marzo de 2026, en Atlanta, Georgia. \u003ccite>(Foto de Megan Varner/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>La Asociación para la Educación Legal en materia de Inmigración del Condado de Alameda recomendó que las personas “\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DWMjSDSgeoZ/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D\">consulten con un abogado antes de volar para conocer los riesgos a los que se exponen\u003c/a>“. Las \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DWMjSDSgeoZ/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D\">recomendaciones\u003c/a> sugerían que las personas planificaran con tiempo suficiente antes de viajar y tuvieran a mano documentos clave, como \u003ca href=\"https://www.nilc.org/resources/community-alert-immigration-arrests-at-airports/\">pruebas de su situación legal, solicitudes pendientes o copias certificadas de expedientes penales si el caso se había cerrado\u003c/a>. La organización hizo hincapié en que las personas no deben “firmar nada» que les entreguen los agentes de inmigración y que «no entiendan”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La ACLU del Norte de California tiene una \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunorcal.org/know-your-rights/know-your-rights-us-airports-and-ports-entry/\">página que detalla sus derechos en el aeropuerto\u003c/a> y si los agentes fronterizos pueden o no preguntarle sobre su estatus migratorio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Según la ACLU NorCal, los ciudadanos de los EE. UU. solo tienen que “\u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunorcal.org/know-your-rights/know-your-rights-us-airports-and-ports-entry/\">responder a preguntas que establezcan su identidad y ciudadanía\u003c/a> (además de preguntas relacionadas con la aduana)”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sin embargo, la organización advierte que “\u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/what-do-when-encountering-law-enforcement-airports-and-other-ports-entry-us\">negarse a responder a preguntas rutinarias\u003c/a> sobre la naturaleza y el propósito de su viaje podría dar lugar a retrasos y/o a una inspección más exhaustiva”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los titulares de visados que no sean ciudadanos y los visitantes que se nieguen a responder a las preguntas podrían sufrir un retraso o que se les deniegue la entrada. Los residentes permanentes legales, como los titulares de la tarjeta verde, solo tienen que responder a preguntas sobre su identidad y su residencia permanente, según \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunorcal.org/know-your-rights/know-your-rights-us-airports-and-ports-entry/\">la ACLU del norte de California\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Negarse a responder a otras preguntas probablemente causará retrasos, pero es posible que los funcionarios no le denieguen la entrada a los EE. UU. por no responder a otras preguntas”, aconsejó \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunorcal.org/know-your-rights/know-your-rights-us-airports-and-ports-entry/\">ACLU del norte de California\u003c/a> a los residentes permanentes legales, señalando que el estatus de tarjeta verde “solo puede ser revocado por un juez de inmigración” y advirtiendo: “¡No renuncie a su tarjeta verde voluntariamente!”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El Asian Law Caucus también cuenta con \u003ca href=\"https://www.asianlawcaucus.org/news-resources/guides-reports/know-your-rights-at-airports\">una tabla muy útil\u003c/a> con respecto a lo que pueden esperar en los aeropuertos las personas con diferentes estatus en lo que respecta a su equipaje, los registros de dispositivos y la duración de una posible detención.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>¿Qué debo hacer si creo haber visto a agentes de ICE en un aeropuerto?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>En lugar de publicar posibles encuentros con agentes de ICE en las redes sociales, defensores de inmigrantes \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025647/what-to-do-if-you-encounter-ice\">recomiendan encarecidamente\u003c/a> que la gente les llamen primero. A través de estas líneas directas, los defensores pueden \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024332/ice-raids-in-california-how-to-sort-fact-from-rumor-online\">verificar estos avistamientos\u003c/a>, con el fin de evitar la difusión de información errónea en Internet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Puede consultar la lista completa y actualizada de números de respuesta rápida en \u003ca href=\"https://www.ccijustice.org/carrn\">la página web de California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>También puede seguir a estas organizaciones en \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/acilep_rapidresponse/\">sus cuentas de redes sociales\u003c/a> para ver si se trata de avistamientos confirmados o solo de rumores.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Los agentes de inmigración han detenido a alguien que conozco. ¿Cómo puedo encontrarlo?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Por lo general, cualquier persona, independientemente de su estatus, puede ser \u003ca href=\"https://www.asianlawcaucus.org/news-resources/guides-reports/know-your-rights-at-airports\">detenida hasta 72 horas en un puerto de entrada\u003c/a>, según el Asian Law Caucus. También puede ser trasladada a un centro de detención penal o a la custodia de ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED ofrece \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047506/searching-for-a-loved-one-in-ice-custody-heres-what-you-need-to-know\">una guía que le explica paso a paso\u003c/a> cómo localizar a alguien en diferentes centros de detención.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La principal manera de encontrar a alguien es a través del \u003ca href=\"https://locator.ice.gov/odls/#/search\">Sistema de Localización de Detenidos en Línea de ICE\u003c/a>. También puede llamar a ICE al \u003ca href=\"https://www.help.cbp.gov/s/article/Article-1706?language=en_US\">866-347-2423\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Según el \u003ca href=\"https://help.asylumadvocacy.org/faqs-other-topics/#detained-loved-one\">Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project\u003c/a>, pueden pasar unos días hasta que una persona aparezca en la base de datos de ICE. Si el nombre que busca no aparece en el sistema de ICE, o si le preocupa su seguridad y una posible deportación, puede solicitar ayuda a organizaciones de defensa como \u003ca href=\"https://www.freedomforimmigrants.org/hotline\">Freedom for Immigrants\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013522/free-legal-aid-in-the-bay-area-how-it-works-where-to-find-it\">Lea más sobre cómo encontrar asistencia jurídica gratuita o de bajo costo en el Área de la Bahía.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Este reportaje incluye información de Katie DeBenedetti, Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí, Tyche Hendricks y Carly Severn, de KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Este artículo fue traducido por la periodista \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/mpena/\">María Peña\u003c/a> y esa traducción fue editada por el periodista \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ccabreralomeli\">Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La administración de Trump dijo que los agentes de ICE permanecerían en servicio para \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077292/is-ice-at-sfo-heres-what-we-know-about-videos-of-woman-being-forcefully-detained\">ayudar con la capacidad de personal de seguridad en los aeropuertos\u003c/a>. Pero la presencia de los agentes de ICE ha \u003ca href=\"https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/immigration/2026/03/23/ice-officers-at-airports-could-sow-fear-latino-group-warns/89294194007/?gnt-cfr=1&gca-cat=p&gca-uir=true&gca-epti=z116320p119050l004550c119050e1123xxv116320d--45--b--45--&gca-ft=168&gca-ds=sophi\">despertado el temor y la incertidumbre\u003c/a> entre los viajeros.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El Aeropuerto Internacional de San Francisco, el más grande del Área de la Bahía, se ha librado de las largas esperas gracias a que los controles de seguridad están \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/flysfo/p/DWHseVzDnnc/\">a cargo de una empresa privada\u003c/a> en lugar de la TSA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sin embargo, el domingo por la noche, en un incidente \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/1s1a3lq/ice_already_causing_havoc_at_sfo/\">captado en vídeo\u003c/a>, se vio a agentes de inmigración vestidos de civiles en el Aeropuerto Internacional de San Francisco (o SFO por sus siglas en inglés) \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077292/is-ice-at-sfo-heres-what-we-know-about-videos-of-woman-being-forcefully-detained\">tratando con fuerza a una mujer delante de su hijo pequeño\u003c/a>. El SFO no figuraba en la lista de los 14 aeropuertos \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/tsa-wait-times-ice-airports-03-23-26?post-id=cmn37qf65000q3b6rfo32wpep\">obtenida por la cadena de noticias CNN\u003c/a> en los que iba a intervenir el ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ir directo a:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#ICE\">\u003cstrong>¿Por qué estaba el ICE en el SFO con respecto al domingo?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#aeropuerto\">\u003cstrong>¿Tengo que responder a las preguntas del ICE en un aeropuerto?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#grabar\">\u003cstrong>¿Es legal grabar al ICE en un aeropuerto?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077951\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077951\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/sfo-international-terminal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/sfo-international-terminal.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/sfo-international-terminal-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/sfo-international-terminal-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">La terminal internacional del Aeropuerto Internacional de San Francisco, con respecto al 10 de diciembre de 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Entonces, ¿qué debe saber ahora mismo sobre el ICE en los aeropuertos de EE. UU.? Siga leyendo para conocer lo que sabemos sobre los agentes de inmigración, los viajes aéreos y sus derechos ante los agentes del ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenga en cuenta que la siguiente información no constituye asesoramiento legal, y que debe dirigir cualquier pregunta específica sobre su situación particular a un abogado.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>¿A qué aeropuertos de EE. UU. se ha desplegado al ICE?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>De acuerdo con \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/22/us/politics/ice-airports-homan-trump.html?smid=url-share\">información publicada por The New York Times\u003c/a>, 14 aeropuertos de todo el país contarán con agentes del ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/tsa-wait-times-ice-airports-03-23-26?post-id=cmn37qf65000q3b6rfo32wpep\">La cadena CNN informó\u003c/a> de que entre estos se encuentran el Aeropuerto Internacional O’Hare de Chicago, el Aeropuerto Internacional Hartsfield-Jackson de Atlanta, los aeropuertos internacionales John F. Kennedy y LaGuardia de Nueva York, y el Aeropuerto Internacional Louis Armstrong de Nueva Orleans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ningún aeropuerto de California figura en la lista actual de CNN.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El martes, un portavoz de la TSA confirmó a KQED que el ICE se desplegaría en “los aeropuertos que se ven afectados negativamente” por las ausencias y dimisiones de la TSA, y que ninguno de ellos se encontraba en el Área de la Bahía.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"ICE\">\u003c/a>¿Por qué estaba el ICE en el aeropuerto de San Francisco el domingo?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>En unas imágenes grabadas alrededor de las 10 de la noche del domingo y publicadas en las redes sociales, se ve a unos hombres vestidos con ropa oscura en el aeropuerto de San Francisco sacando a una mujer que lloraba de un banquillo de la terminal y empujándola luego a una silla de ruedas, mientras se oye llorar cerca a una niña de unos 10 años. Se puede ver a agentes de la policía de San Francisco observando la escena mientras se producía la detención.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los hombres no llevan insignias visibles ni distintivos de la agencia, pero el Departamento de Seguridad Nacional (o DHS por sus siglas en inglés) \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/dhsgov/status/2036158826341077203?s=46&t=PMxn5DJx4Cr-fWgaQBUvVA\">afirmó\u003c/a> el lunes en la red social X que, de hecho, se trataba de agentes de ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Según un portavoz del DHS, la mujer y su hija fueron detenidas en el aeropuerto y estaban siendo “escoltadas a la terminal internacional para ser procesadas” cuando la mujer intentó huir. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077292/is-ice-at-sfo-heres-what-we-know-about-videos-of-woman-being-forcefully-detained\">Lea más información sobre el incidente del domingo por la noche en el aeropuerto de San Francisco\u003c/a> (SFO). Según informó The New York Times el martes por la noche, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/us/tsa-data-ice-deportation-san-francisco-airport.html\">el ICE había sido alertado inicialmente\u003c/a> de la presencia de ambas en el SFO por la TSA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Según \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/flysfo/p/DWPA-h5D_QG/\">un comunicado emitido por el SFO\u003c/a>, el aeropuerto “no participó en este incidente ni fue notificado de antemano”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Entendemos que los agentes federales transportaban a dos personas en un vuelo con destino al extranjero cuando se produjo este incidente”, señala el comunicado. “Creemos que se trata de un incidente aislado y no tenemos motivos para sospechar que se esté llevando a cabo una operación de control más amplia en el Aeropuerto Internacional de San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DWPGTBvmGX9/\">El alcalde de San Francisco, Daniel Lurie, se hizo eco del comunicado del aeropuerto el lunes en una publicación en las redes sociales\u003c/a>. Lurie afirmó en su comunicado que las fuerzas del orden locales “no participan en la aplicación de la ley federal de inmigración civil”, \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2026/03/attorneys-say-sfpd-may-have-violated-the-law-during-ice-arrest-at-sfo/\">aunque algunos abogados de inmigración han cuestionado, no obstante, la presencia de la Policía de San Francisco\u003c/a> (SFPD) durante la detención.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hasta el lunes por la tarde, los defensores locales de los derechos de los inmigrantes afirmaron que \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/sfrrn_/p/DWPQRS4lMjl/\">seguían evaluando la situación\u003c/a> y trabajando para “confirmar todos los hechos relacionados con este incidente”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tras haber matado a personas en nuestras calles y detenido a ciudadanos estadounidenses, el ICE ha perdido toda credibilidad y confianza ante la opinión pública”, afirmaron el representante del Área de la Bahía Kevin Mullin y la presidenta emérita de la Cámara de Representantes, Nancy Pelosi, en una declaración conjunta. “Exigimos respuestas inmediatas sobre el estado de la madre y su hijo, así como sobre los motivos de su detención”.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>¿Puede el ICE detener a personas en el aeropuerto?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Sí, existen casos documentados de \u003ca href=\"https://www.nilc.org/resources/community-alert-immigration-arrests-at-airports/\">detenciones por parte del ICE en aeropuertos\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jonathan Blazer, director de estrategias fronterizas y asesor principal de la Unión Americana por las Libertades Civiles (o ACLU por sus siglas en inglés), afirmó que “no hay nada que prohíba categóricamente a ICE entrar en un aeropuerto en calidad de agente de control de inmigración”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Por ejemplo, señaló Blazer, los agentes de ICE han utilizado vuelos comerciales anteriormente para transportar a personas en vuelos de deportación, o para trasladar a personas detenidas a centros de detención de inmigrantes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077958\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077958\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/United-Airlines.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/United-Airlines.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/United-Airlines-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los pasajeros esperan su vuelo en el Aeropuerto Internacional de San Francisco el 10 de diciembre de 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Además, tal y como informó por primera vez \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/us/politics/immigration-tsa-passenger-data.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9U8.1lIj.Qa1WfLVCwcJB&smid=url-share\">The New York Times\u003c/a> en diciembre de 2025, el TSA ha compartido con el ICE información sobre pasajeros de vuelos que se cree que están sujetos a órdenes de deportación, facilitando así a los agentes de inmigración la realización de detenciones en el aeropuerto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sin embargo, Blazer afirmó que el despliegue del ICE en los aeropuertos de esta semana —la simple presencia con este fin, de forma no selectiva y en gran número— es «sin precedentes»\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Según \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/ice-tsa-wait-times-shutdown-03-24-26?post-id=cmn48kb0y00823b6p6u9q5bxl\">la cadena CNN el martes por la mañana\u003c/a>, Trump dijo que los agentes seguirán deteniendo a personas indocumentadas, pero dijo sobre los agentes del ICE en los aeropuertos “no es por eso por lo que están allí; en realidad están allí para ayudar”. (La mayoría de los agentes del TSA \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/what-do-when-encountering-law-enforcement-airports-and-other-ports-entry-us#what-types-of-law-enforcement-officers-and-other-government-officials-could-i-encounter-during-the-security-screening-process-at-the-airport\">no son agentes de policía\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Parte de lo que resulta tan complicado aquí es que la administración Trump no ha aclarado cuáles son las competencias que está otorgando a ICE como parte de esta misión”, dijo Blazer. En su resumen de \u003ca href=\"https://www.nilc.org/resources/community-alert-immigration-arrests-at-airports/\">los riesgos de los viajes aéreos\u003c/a>, el Centro Nacional de Leyes de Inmigración (o NILC por sus siglas en inglés) señaló que, para las personas indocumentadas, con estatus migratorio temporal o sujetas a una orden de deportación, existe “un riesgo significativo de ser detenidas en un aeropuerto de EE. UU.”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sin embargo, el NILC también señaló que “todos los no ciudadanos corren algún riesgo” al viajar por los aeropuertos de EE. UU., incluidos aquellos con residencia permanente, si tienen determinadas condenas penales o si gozan del estatus de Acción Diferida para los Llegados en la Infancia (o DACA por sus siglas en inglés).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los defensores animan a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DWMjSDSgeoZ/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D\">los pasajeros que no sean ciudadanos estadounidenses a consultar con un abogado\u003c/a> sobre su situación particular antes de viajar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blazer, de la ACLU, señaló que, aunque la CBP tiene mucho “poder a la hora de controlar a las personas que llegan en un vuelo internacional”, eso no es aplicable a los \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/cbp-cant-detain-domestic-flight-passengers-refusing-suspicionless-id-checks#:~:text=CBP%20is%20bound%20by%20those,actions%20that%20participation%20is%20voluntary.\">vuelos nacionales\u003c/a>. Por ejemplo, ni la CBP ni el ICE pueden inspeccionar sus dispositivos electrónicos sin una orden judicial en un vuelo nacional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicole Hallett, directora de la Clínica de Derechos de los Inmigrantes y profesora clínica de Derecho en la Universidad de Chicago, declaró al \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/tips/ice-agents-tsa-airports/\">Washington Post\u003c/a> que el ICE no puede registrar las pertenencias personales de un pasajero sin una orden judicial, y solo puede hacerlo si actúa en nombre de una agencia que sí pueda, como la CBP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Si están actuando como agentes de la TSA, deben seguir las normas de la TSA. Si actúan como agentes de la CBP y realizan labores de la Patrulla Fronteriza, entonces tienen la autoridad que tiene la Patrulla Fronteriza”, dijo Hallett.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Y si simplemente se encuentran en el aeropuerto como agentes de ICE, entonces tienen la misma autoridad legal que cualquier agente de ICE que se encuentre en un lugar público”, afirmó. (En cualquier caso, señaló que ICE puede \u003ca href=\"https://archive.ph/YWJ1z#selection-853.62-853.119\">acercarse a los pasajeros en cualquier lugar\u003c/a> del aeropuerto, incluso después del control de seguridad.)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>¿Qué debo hacer si ICE se me acerca en el aeropuerto?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>En los puestos de control fronterizos, incluidos los aeropuertos, los agentes pueden hacer preguntas, realizar registros personales y detener a personas con amplia discrecionalidad, explicó \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/09/05/nx-s1-5517998/ice-arrest-rules-explained\">a al cadena radial NPR\u003c/a> Ahilan Arulanantham, codirector del Centro de Derecho y Política Migratoria de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de California en Los Angeles (o UCLA, pos sus siglas en inglés).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sin embargo, Blazer señaló que, para que ICE pueda detener a alguien por una infracción de inmigración sin una orden judicial, \u003ca href=\"https://immigrantjustice.org/sites/default/files/content-type/page/documents/2025-01/Castanon-Nava_training_slides_2025-01-16-english.pdf\">debería demostrar que existen motivos fundados\u003c/a> para creer que la persona se encuentra en EE. UU. infringiendo las leyes de inmigración del país, y que es probable que huya antes de que se pueda obtener una orden de detención. Según él, \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/five-individuals-launch-class-action-lawsuit-over-warrantless-immigration-arrests-in-north-carolina\">recientemente se han producido litigios en todo el país\u003c/a> que cuestionan algunas de las detenciones sin orden judicial llevadas a cabo por ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077962\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077962\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/flight-boards.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/flight-boards.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/flight-boards-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Unos pasajeros pasan junto a un panel de información de vuelos en la Terminal 1 “Harvey Milk” del Aeropuerto Internacional de San Francisco el 10 de diciembre de 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Los agentes del ICE “no tienen ninguna autoridad adicional en un aeropuerto”, afirmó Blazer. Pero, en realidad, señaló, las garantías constitucionales y los derechos que tienen las personas pueden resultar “mucho más complicados de ejercer” en el contexto de un aeropuerto para la mayoría de la gente, que no solo tiene que lidiar con la presión añadida de perder vuelos caros, sino también con la impaciencia de los demás pasajeros en la fila de seguridad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Por ejemplo, las personas, ya sean ciudadanos o inmigrantes, tienen derecho a preguntar a un agente de inmigración “¿Puedo marcharme?”. Si no tienen una sospecha concreta, individualizada y razonable de que ha cometido un delito, no pueden seguir interrogándole y usted puede marcharse, explicó Blazer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pero pensemos sobre cómo funciona esto en el contexto del aeropuerto», dijo. ““¿Puedo marcharme?” Y marcharme significa que probablemente esté saliendo del aeropuerto para alejarme de una situación, y en ese momento podría perder mi vuelo”.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"aeropuerto\">\u003c/a>¿Tengo que responder a las preguntas de ICE en el aeropuerto?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Si un agente de ICE le hace preguntas en el aeropuerto, usted “tiene el mismo derecho a guardar silencio que en la vía pública””, afirmó Blazer. “Nada cambia por el mero hecho de estar en un aeropuerto”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero este es otro ejemplo de cómo la presión del entorno aeroportuario puede afectar a su situación, señaló Blazer. Si decide ejercer su derecho a guardar silencio, el agente puede retirarle de la fila de seguridad e intentar hacerle más preguntas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tenemos los mismos derechos, pero en ese entorno, el ejercitar esos derechos conlleva costos adicionales” , dijo Blazer. “Muchas personas en esa situación, por su propio interés… ‘siguen la corriente’ en la mayor medida posible”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>¿Qué pasa si ICE me pide la identificación?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Según \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/news/2026/03/23/ice-agents-airports-tsa-my-rights/89278550007/\">una información publicada por USA Today\u003c/a>, los viajeros deben presentar un documento de identidad y someterse al control de seguridad de la TSA para embarcar en un vuelo. Sin embargo, por lo general, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ilrc.org/community-resources/know-your-rights-faq#item-5131\">tanto los ciudadanos como los inmigrantes\u003c/a> tienen derecho a guardar silencio cuando se dirigen a las fuerzas del orden, incluido ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El Asian Law Caucus ha señalado que, si cree que va a ser detenido por ICE, \u003ca href=\"https://www.asianlawcaucus.org/news-resources/guides-reports/know-your-rights-at-airports\">debe ejercer su derecho a guardar silencio y no responder a ninguna pregunta\u003c/a>. La organización también ha indicado que no debe firmar ningún documento sin que lo revise un abogado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blazer señaló que, según \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12065885/ice-immigration-us-citizens-detained-carry-passports-documentation-green-card\">la ley federal\u003c/a>, las personas con residencia permanente legal u otros visados que les otorguen un estatus legal deben llevar consigo una prueba de dicho estatus, como su tarjeta de residencia. “Y puede que les convenga, para evitar más interrogatorios indebidos o detenciones ilegales, responder a esas preguntas y mostrar dicha prueba de estatus”, afirmó Blazer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Así que, aunque usted tiene derecho a no hacerlo, quiero dejar claro que las personas tendrán que tomar una decisión personal sobre si les conviene ejercer ese derecho”, dijo. Especialmente si son titulares adultos de tarjetas de residente permanente o cualquier otra persona sujeta a una ley federal que les obligue a llevar consigo una prueba de su estatus en todo momento”.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"grabar\">\u003c/a>¿Es legal grabar a los agentes de ICE?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Tomar fotografías y grabar vídeos de lo que es claramente visible en espacios públicos es \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/issues/free-speech/photographers-rights/filming-and-photographing-police\">un derecho constitucional\u003c/a>, y eso incluye a la policía y a otros funcionarios públicos en el ejercicio de sus funciones”, señala la guía de la ACLU.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Y aunque no existe una sentencia del Tribunal Supremo que establezca de forma inequívoca el derecho, amparado por la Primera Enmienda, a grabar a los agentes del orden, “los siete Tribunales Federales de Circuito de EE. UU. que han examinado la cuestión han afirmado prácticamente unánimemente que existe \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069590/are-you-allowed-to-record-ice\">un derecho, amparado por la Primera Enmienda, a grabar a la policía y a observarla\u003c/a>”, declaró a principios de este año el reportero de justicia penal C.J. Ciaramella, colaborador de Reason, en el podcast Close All Tabs de KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077964\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077964\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/border-patrol-bovino.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1025\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/border-patrol-bovino.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/border-patrol-bovino-160x107.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gregory Bovino, excomandante general de la Patrulla Fronteriza (en el centro), se dirige junto a agentes federales hacia el Edificio Federal Edward R. Roybal después de que agentes de la Patrulla Fronteriza de EE. UU. realizaran una demostración de fuerza frente al Museo Nacional Japonés-Americano, donde el gobernador Newsom ofrecía una rueda de prensa con respecto a la redistribución de distritos el jueves 14 de agosto de 2025, en Los Ángeles. \u003ccite>(Carlin Stiehl / Los Angeles Times vía Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sin embargo, los aeropuertos podrían ser un entorno potencialmente más complicado para grabar, señaló Blazer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No es que la Primera Enmienda no se aplique en los aeropuertos, pero estos no son un espacio público tradicional como lo son los parques”, explicó Blazer. Por ejemplo, en algunas filas de seguridad de la TSA hay un aviso que dice “prohibido tomar fotos”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rara vez hacen cumplir esa norma, pero eso solo demuestra que ya se trata de un entorno más regulado en el que pueden imponer ciertas restricciones”, señaló Blazer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sí es legal grabar a las fuerzas del orden en “cualquier lugar abierto y visible mientras desempeñan sus funciones”, dijo Blazer, haciendo eco de las directrices establecidas en \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/issues/free-speech/photographers-rights/filming-and-photographing-police\">esta exhaustiva guía de la ACLU\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pero, al mismo tiempo, puede ser permitido que los operadores aeroportuarios impongan ciertas normas razonables, y esas normas podrían incluir la restricción de tomar fotografías en áreas particulares del aeropuerto” dijo Blazer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>De hecho, podría ser difícil discutir con un funcionario del aeropuerto que le diga que no tome fotos en una zona determinada, señaló Blazer. Y podría haber una batalla legal después de los hechos, “si una persona no obedece esa orden y es detenida o retirada de la fila” señaló.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pero creo que la verdad es que, en un entorno aeroportuario, resulta más difícil ejercer ese derecho”, afirmó.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11871364/recording-the-police-what-to-know-and-how-to-stay-safe-doing-it\">Los vídeos de testigos presenciales también ofrecen importantes narrativas alternativas\u003c/a> a las versiones oficiales de las fuerzas del orden. Tras el tiroteo mortal de Alex Pretti a manos de agentes de ICE en Minnesota a principios de este año, los funcionarios de la administración Trump afirmaron inmediatamente que Pretti era un “terrorista naciona” que pretendía “masacrar” a los agentes, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/01/25/nx-s1-5687875/minneapolis-shooting-minnesota-ice-alex-pretti-dhs-investigation\">afirmaciones contradichas\u003c/a> por los múltiples vídeos de testigos presenciales grabados durante el tiroteo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sin embargo, funcionarios de la administración Trump han \u003ca href=\"https://abc3340.com/news/nation-world/secretary-kristi-noem-addresses-surge-in-attacks-on-ice-agents-in-tampa-dhs-us-immigration-and-customs-enforcement-agents-florida-department-of-homeland-security-july-13-2025\">calificado la filmación de ICE como “violencia” y “doxing”\u003c/a>, y \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069590/are-you-allowed-to-record-ice\">los estadounidenses se han enfrentado a la detención\u003c/a> por parte de ICE \u003ca href=\"https://www.fox9.com/news/ice-detains-woodbury-man-filming-agents\">tras filmar a los agentes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Así que, en definitiva, aunque grabar a ICE pueda ser un derecho constitucional, también conlleva riesgos cada vez mayores. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11871364/recording-the-police-what-to-know-and-how-to-stay-safe-doing-it\">Lea más sobre la logística, y los riesgos, de grabar a agentes de las fuerzas del orden como los de ICE\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>¿Qué dicen los defensores de los inmigrantes sobre viajar en estos momentos?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>El grupo de defensa de San Francisco \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/sfrrn_/p/DWPQRS4lMjl/?img_index=2\">Mission Action\u003c/a> advierte de que los no ciudadanos que actualmente no tienen estatus legal “deberían considerar cuidadosamente los riesgos de viajar en avión, incluidos los vuelos nacionales dentro de los EE. UU.”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Informes recientes apuntan a un aumento de los riesgos, entre ellos la posibilidad de que la TSA esté compartiendo información sobre los viajeros con el ICE, lo que podría exponer a las personas a medidas legales”, se lee \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/sfrrn_/p/DWPQRS4lMjl/?img_index=2\">en su publicación en redes sociales\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077966\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077966\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Atlanta-police.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Atlanta-police.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Atlanta-police-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Atlanta-police-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Agentes del Departamento de Policía de Atlanta observan con respecto a los viajeros que hacen largas colas en el Aeropuerto Internacional Hartsfield-Jackson de Atlanta el 23 de marzo de 2026, en Atlanta, Georgia. \u003ccite>(Foto de Megan Varner/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>La Asociación para la Educación Legal en materia de Inmigración del Condado de Alameda recomendó que las personas “\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DWMjSDSgeoZ/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D\">consulten con un abogado antes de volar para conocer los riesgos a los que se exponen\u003c/a>“. Las \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DWMjSDSgeoZ/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D\">recomendaciones\u003c/a> sugerían que las personas planificaran con tiempo suficiente antes de viajar y tuvieran a mano documentos clave, como \u003ca href=\"https://www.nilc.org/resources/community-alert-immigration-arrests-at-airports/\">pruebas de su situación legal, solicitudes pendientes o copias certificadas de expedientes penales si el caso se había cerrado\u003c/a>. La organización hizo hincapié en que las personas no deben “firmar nada» que les entreguen los agentes de inmigración y que «no entiendan”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La ACLU del Norte de California tiene una \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunorcal.org/know-your-rights/know-your-rights-us-airports-and-ports-entry/\">página que detalla sus derechos en el aeropuerto\u003c/a> y si los agentes fronterizos pueden o no preguntarle sobre su estatus migratorio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Según la ACLU NorCal, los ciudadanos de los EE. UU. solo tienen que “\u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunorcal.org/know-your-rights/know-your-rights-us-airports-and-ports-entry/\">responder a preguntas que establezcan su identidad y ciudadanía\u003c/a> (además de preguntas relacionadas con la aduana)”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sin embargo, la organización advierte que “\u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/what-do-when-encountering-law-enforcement-airports-and-other-ports-entry-us\">negarse a responder a preguntas rutinarias\u003c/a> sobre la naturaleza y el propósito de su viaje podría dar lugar a retrasos y/o a una inspección más exhaustiva”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los titulares de visados que no sean ciudadanos y los visitantes que se nieguen a responder a las preguntas podrían sufrir un retraso o que se les deniegue la entrada. Los residentes permanentes legales, como los titulares de la tarjeta verde, solo tienen que responder a preguntas sobre su identidad y su residencia permanente, según \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunorcal.org/know-your-rights/know-your-rights-us-airports-and-ports-entry/\">la ACLU del norte de California\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Negarse a responder a otras preguntas probablemente causará retrasos, pero es posible que los funcionarios no le denieguen la entrada a los EE. 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A través de estas líneas directas, los defensores pueden \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024332/ice-raids-in-california-how-to-sort-fact-from-rumor-online\">verificar estos avistamientos\u003c/a>, con el fin de evitar la difusión de información errónea en Internet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Puede consultar la lista completa y actualizada de números de respuesta rápida en \u003ca href=\"https://www.ccijustice.org/carrn\">la página web de California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>También puede seguir a estas organizaciones en \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/acilep_rapidresponse/\">sus cuentas de redes sociales\u003c/a> para ver si se trata de avistamientos confirmados o solo de rumores.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Los agentes de inmigración han detenido a alguien que conozco. ¿Cómo puedo encontrarlo?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Por lo general, cualquier persona, independientemente de su estatus, puede ser \u003ca href=\"https://www.asianlawcaucus.org/news-resources/guides-reports/know-your-rights-at-airports\">detenida hasta 72 horas en un puerto de entrada\u003c/a>, según el Asian Law Caucus. También puede ser trasladada a un centro de detención penal o a la custodia de ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED ofrece \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047506/searching-for-a-loved-one-in-ice-custody-heres-what-you-need-to-know\">una guía que le explica paso a paso\u003c/a> cómo localizar a alguien en diferentes centros de detención.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La principal manera de encontrar a alguien es a través del \u003ca href=\"https://locator.ice.gov/odls/#/search\">Sistema de Localización de Detenidos en Línea de ICE\u003c/a>. También puede llamar a ICE al \u003ca href=\"https://www.help.cbp.gov/s/article/Article-1706?language=en_US\">866-347-2423\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Según el \u003ca href=\"https://help.asylumadvocacy.org/faqs-other-topics/#detained-loved-one\">Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project\u003c/a>, pueden pasar unos días hasta que una persona aparezca en la base de datos de ICE. 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Photo by Adriana Heldiz, CalMatters\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego County Sheriff’s officials failed to investigate at least seven reported sexual assaults at the privately run Otay Mesa immigration detention center in 2025, and records show the agency has ceded control of the cases to civilian administrators employed by the nation’s largest for-profit prison contractor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under a 2020 \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/27895328-2020-corecivic-of-tennessee-llc-otay-mesa-detention-facility/\">memorandum of understanding\u003c/a> between the sheriff’s department and CoreCivic, detention center Warden Christopher LaRose has authority to decide whether to investigate rape allegations at the facility, which currently houses just under 1,500 federal immigration detainees, most of whom are in custody awaiting hearings and have not been convicted of a crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalMatters obtained the memorandum after seeking additional information about the alleged rapes and four attempted sexual assaults through a California Public Records Act request. While a sheriff’s spokesperson said the agency was not investigating those cases, he said he was unable to turn over additional records because they were part of “a law enforcement investigation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CoreCivic in a written statement after this story first published said Otay Mesa staff conduct an administrative investigation of each sex assault allegation, though a spokesperson said the company does not conduct criminal investigations of sexual abuse allegations because it’s not a law enforcement agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When a matter requires law enforcement intervention, we refer it to the appropriate authorities,” CoreCivic spokesperson Ryan Gustin said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company manages the detention center under a contract with the Department of Homeland Security and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency’s Office of Enforcement and Removal Operations. ICE officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gustin said all allegations are recorded in a database, and “refer any potentially criminal matter to law enforcement.”[aside postID=news_12075152 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-12-BL-KQED.jpg']“Substantiated allegations result in disciplinary action and, where appropriate, referral for prosecution,” Gustin said. “If an individual is found to be at substantial risk of imminent sexual abuse, immediate protective action is taken.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company said that it has a zero tolerance policy for sex abuse and sexual harassment, and said detainees, staff or anyone present at a facility can report allegations in writing or through a hotline number. The company also said it offers anyone who makes an allegation medical, mental health and emotional support services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CoreCivic did not respond to questions on whether it has any similar memoranda of understanding with other agencies, or details on any previous memorandum of understanding in San Diego County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seven privately run \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/10/ice-detention-center-inspections/\">immigrant detention centers\u003c/a> operate in California, with CoreCivic holding contracts for two of them. 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So we have to also work with the people in charge of the facility, the reporting mechanism would still have to come from the facility.”[aside postID=news_12077581 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/GettyImages-2267820367-scaled.jpg']Lawson-Remer called the decision to turn over criminal investigation decisions to a private company “troubling,” and asked whether Martinez could sign an MOU that required a sheriff’s office investigation of every criminal allegation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know if we have the staff capacity for that, perhaps you could give me a bunch more positions and we could create an investigative unit,” Martinez said, and laughed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I completely understand your concern, and that it doesn’t look like it’s an appropriate way to investigate these complaints but I really don’t know how many are occurring.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martinez went on to say she was responsible for her own detention facilities, and investigating ones that don’t belong to San Diego County is “a difficult ask.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego County is in the midst of a separate legal battle with CoreCivic over the Otay Mesa Detention Center. 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"title": "‘It’s Inhumane’: After Sunnyvale Father’s Deportation, Family Trauma Lingers",
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"headTitle": "‘It’s Inhumane’: After Sunnyvale Father’s Deportation, Family Trauma Lingers | KQED",
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"content": "\u003cp>In the early weeks of President Donald Trump’s second term, Ulises Peña Lopez, a husband and father, was arrested by ICE outside his home in Sunnyvale. During the encounter, he says he was severely beaten and suffered a heart attack and stroke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last October, Ulises was deported to Mexico. Here in the Bay Area, his wife Aby and 4-year old daughter Emily are still reeling from the impacts of his deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Links:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12075152/a-year-after-ice-detained-south-bay-immigrant-family-trauma-lingers\">A Year After ICE Detained South Bay Immigrant, Family Trauma Lingers\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\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=KQINC4840678572&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.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:00:00] \u003c/em>I’m Ericka Cruz Guevara and welcome to The Bay. Local news to keep you rooted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:00:08] \u003c/em>About 10 years ago, Aby Pena was in school studying to be a nurse in the Bay Area. One day, she walked into a restaurant with her sister, not expecting to meet the man she would marry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Peña: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:00:24] \u003c/em>This was like on a day where I didn’t have school, it was over the weekend, and he used to work at a restaurant. So then I just went through to you with my sister, like did not expect to meet him. It was like unexpected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:00:35] \u003c/em>Their waiter was being flirty, but she wasn’t interested in him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Peña: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:00:42] \u003c/em>He waiter was a different guy. He’s like, oh, you’re not interested in anybody that works here, but he was talking about himself. And then I was like, oh yes, the guy that sat us down on the table. I was, like, I think he’s really cute. So then he ended up coming over to talk to me and that’s how it all started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:01] \u003c/em>That guy was Ulises Peña Lopez. The two would later start dating, get married, have a daughter, and move into an apartment in Sunnyvale together. And they lived like any normal working family in the Bay Area until one day when Ulises was violently arrested by immigration and customs enforcement agents outside of their home. In front of his wife. And three-year-old daughter. He was eventually deported to Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ulises Peña Lopez: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:37] \u003c/em>My life, my routine with my family was very different compared to what it is now. All these problems came to me when ICE arrived home that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:52] \u003c/em>During the first nine months of the Trump administration, immigration and customs enforcement arrests in the Bay Area have doubled. And with each person arrested, there’s a whole network of family members and community whose lives are upended too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:14] \u003c/em>Something I really wanted to understand was, yeah, we focus on these moments, these incidents, but then how does that ripple out? How does it unfold going forward for people? And what I found for this family was tremendous upheaval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:36] \u003c/em>Today, I talk with KQED’s senior immigration editor, Tyche Hendricks, about life after deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:06] \u003c/em>So Tyche, your story focuses on a man named Ulises Pena Lopez. Tell me a little bit about him and why you wanted to tell his story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:16] \u003c/em>Ulises Pena-Lopez came from Michoacan, Mexico when he was 18. He was fleeing cartel violence and the police were not protecting him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:29] \u003c/em>Tyche Hendricks is a senior immigration editor for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:35] \u003c/em>His uncle and his cousin, according to his lawyers, were killed by the cartel, and he was beaten and threatened with his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ulises Peña Lopez: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:42] \u003c/em>I started with my job as a carpenter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:47] \u003c/em>He came to the Bay Area, settled in Sunnyvale, became a carpenter and a member of the Carpenters’ Union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:56] \u003c/em>He is, of course, married to a woman named Abby Pena. They have a family together. They have one child. What was life like for the two of them and their family before his deportation?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:11] \u003c/em>They felt like they were, you know, making a good life together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:17] \u003c/em>He liked cooking a lot of like typical Mexican dishes like he really liked beef and like stew and like he loves rice a lot\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:27] \u003c/em>I met Abby at the house. She’s a licensed vocational nurse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:32] \u003c/em>So when they told me it was a girl, like at the appointment, I, he didn’t want me, he wanted me to like wait until he got home to tell him in person. But I was just too excited to tell them that it was a girl because I knew he wanted a girl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:45] \u003c/em>She had had a challenging pregnancy with some health complications and had actually ended up staying home with their daughter, Emily, for those early years of Emily’s life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:58] \u003c/em>And then our daughter would watch him like eating spicy stuff. So then she would ask him. And then she started getting used to it too. Now she likes like spicy food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:05:05] \u003c/em>And so she was loving being a full-time stay-at-home mom, and he was supporting the family. Yeah, had a little apartment in Sunnyvale on the edge of San Jose in that area. Yeah, I think they were happy with their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:05:20] \u003c/em>She was really a daddy’s girl, and he would always spoil her. I would say no, we would go to the store, she wants a toy. I was like, you have so many at home already, and then she would go him and he’s like, oh yeah, so then she will take her toy. She always knew that she could ask him for everything that I said no about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:05:41] \u003c/em>He had some health challenges that had emerged in the few months prior to this arrest. Doctors found a tear inside of an artery in his neck. So he had been a little more cautious about his work schedule and had been closely monitored by doctors. That very day after he was taken by ICE was a day that he was scheduled to go in for an MRI or some kind of a scan. To monitor, check-on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:12] \u003c/em>Right, but it sounds like aside from his sort of health problems that he was monitoring, they sound like a pretty average working family in the Bay Area. And then one morning, February 21st, 2025, everything really changed for them. Can you tell me about what happened?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:35] \u003c/em>They were planning to go out and run some errands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:39] \u003c/em>He went downstairs to warm our vehicle, which you can literally see from here in our window. It’s the red vehicle that’s there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:46] \u003c/em>It was, I don’t know, seven in the morning. Abby was upstairs getting Emily ready and getting herself ready.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:52] \u003c/em>All of a sudden he called me and he’s like, ‘ICE is here, immigration’s here, they have me surrounded, I’m inside the vehicle.’ And I did not believe him at first. I was on the phone in the bathroom. I was like, cause we had just woken up. I did expect that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:16] \u003c/em>They had blocked the driveway and surrounded him in the carport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ulises Peña Lopez: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:20] \u003c/em>They were all covered up, they didn’t have a specific insignia that said ICE or police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:30] \u003c/em>The agents were telling him to get out of the car. They, according to him, were masked. Trust getting out of the car. So he didn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:43] \u003c/em>And I stepped outside but I could only stand like at the top of the stairs since we live on the second floor. The stairs were blocked with ICE agents like I could not go down they weren’t letting me go down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:55] \u003c/em>They took a baton and started banging on the window, cracked the window at which point he did open the door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:04] \u003c/em>The ICE agents were just screaming like there was a lot of them surrounding the vehicle and as soon as he like barely opened it, they just pulled him out violently and pushed him against the floor and the vehicle, yeah. It was scary because I didn’t know what to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:21] \u003c/em>He, you know, at one point, like collapsed onto the ground. He said they were kicking and beating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ulises Peña Lopez: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:28] \u003c/em>Me sacaron de la cabaneta, me tiraron al suelo, golpeándome, diciéndome palabras racistas. Me decían en inglés, ‘Fucking Mexican.’\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:37] \u003c/em>Looking at ICE’s report of the incident, they say that they saw him fumbling around and they imagined that he might be looking for a weapon and so they justified their forceful actions on the theory that he could be armed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:59] \u003c/em>And I remember telling them, like I said, that he has an appointment. He has to take his medications daily. And I just remember running back inside, grabbing a bag and putting all his medications in there. And I told them if they could at least take his medication with him, because he needs them. And just one of them took them away from me, but I don’t know what happened to those medications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:20] \u003c/em>Then they sort of hoisted him up and held him against the car and handcuffed him and threw him in their own vehicle and drove off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:28] \u003c/em>Oh my gosh, and their daughter was watching all of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:31] \u003c/em>Emily was screaming and crying and, you know, inconsolable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:36] \u003c/em>Where does ICE end up taking him?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:38] \u003c/em>They ended up taking him, according to his lawyer and according to some records, including ICE’s own records, to an alley behind some shops, including a hardware store that was a few minutes’ drive from the house. And he says they pulled him out of the vehicle there and beat him some more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ulises Peña Lopez: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:01] \u003c/em>And I had my hands exposed to the back and they started hitting me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:09] \u003c/em>Legal documents that they filed with a federal court. They have doctors testifying that he had probably both a heart attack and a stroke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:20] \u003c/em>Oh my goodness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ulises Peña Lopez: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:22] \u003c/em>No se me perdió el conocimiento. Cuando recuperé mi conocimiento, estaba conectado al hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:29] \u003c/em>Says that he lost consciousness as he was being beaten, and then he came to some what and he heard an officer say, you know, call 911 basically, and he and somebody was on his chest at that point giving CPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:58] \u003c/em>What a terrifying sequence of events. And I imagine then he woke up in the emergency room. What was that experience like for him?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:11:09] \u003c/em>He came-to in the emergency room. I think there were a lot of wires and tubes and things attached to his body. And there were ICE agents guarding his bed. And during his stay there, he was handcuffed to the bed because he was under arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:11:29] \u003c/em>According to federal documents, ICE had flagged Ulises’ whereabouts early last year. The ICE arrest report mentions several misdemeanor convictions from his 20s. And it’s these convictions that may have marked Ulises as a target for ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:11:55] \u003c/em>Meanwhile, back at the house, at the apartment, Abby was frantic, and she called Ulises’ mother, who lives nearby, and said, this is what happened. You know, what do I do?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:09] \u003c/em>And then she’s like, Oh, I saw this number on the TV for rapid response. And she gave me the number and I just called there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:17] \u003c/em>And she spoke to a lawyer. And once Abby was able to find somebody to take care of her daughter, went to the hospital and tried to see him. And they were blocked for many, many hours and ultimately had short visits with him, but only with ICE present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:35] \u003c/em>I was there until really, really late at the hospital that day, and the ICE agents were there the whole time with him, so they never gave him any time alone with his lawyer that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:45] \u003c/em>Aby says that they took her phone away from her when she did get to see him, and I think this happene with the lawyer as well, so that they weren’t able to take photographs of the shape that he was in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:58] \u003c/em>Yeah of his condition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:13:05] \u003c/em>Ulises, within 24 hours or so, he spent a night at the hospital, and then ICE transferred him to an immigration detention center down in Kern County in McFarland. And he spent the next eight months or so in ICE detention and had very limited access to medical care. And by all accounts, it was very inadequate to his needs. Then he was deported back to Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:13:46] \u003c/em>Coming up, how Ulises’ deportation has affected everything else. We’ll be right back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:02] \u003c/em>I think what’s so interesting about this story is that you were able to talk with this family about what these last several months have been like for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:13] \u003c/em>Yeah, I mean, it’s been a little over a year since he was arrested, and, you know, it still brings all of them to tears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:26] \u003c/em>It’s really sad here, especially when I look at Lisa’s stuff, like his clothes hanging in the closet, his shoes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:33] \u003c/em>Something I really wanted to understand was, yeah, we focus on these moments, these incidents, but then how does that ripple out? How does it unfold going forward for people? And what I found for this family was tremendous upheaval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:58] \u003c/em>Since he was deported in October, Ulises has been living in a room at his aunt’s house in Mexico. He says he lost some of his vision and hearing as a result of his encounter with ICE, and that the right side of his body is largely paralyzed. Ulises doesn’t have health insurance, and it takes him a two-hour bus ride to see a doctor. And all of this has had major ripple effects on his family here in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:15:37] \u003c/em>Aby, who was a stay-at-home mom, had to go back to work now to support the family and pay the rent, and also to support her husband, who can’t support himself at this point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:15:49] \u003c/em>And now she’s almost going to turn five at the end of April and it’s going to be a year since she hasn’t seen her dad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:15:55] \u003c/em>She worked some crazy shifts, 14 hour shifts typically, three of them back to back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:16:02] \u003c/em>That sounds impossible childcare-wise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:16:04] \u003c/em>Right, so what she figured out for childcare was that her parents could take care of Emily, but her parents moved outside of Chico, which is a four hour drive north.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:16:15] \u003c/em>So it’s pretty far, so it’s kind of a sacrifice to have her like far away from us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:16:20] \u003c/em>On her days off, she drives four hours up to the Chico area and spends two or three nights maybe to be with her daughter and then drives back and starts the week all over again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:16:31] \u003c/em>It’s hard for me, but it’s probably even harder for her. She doesn’t have me or her dad nearby now. It’s really, really hard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:16:39] \u003c/em>And when you’re four years old, you don’t know what’s Monday or Tuesday or two days a week, or when is mom going to show up again. And when something as traumatic as happened to her father has happened in her life, psychiatrists and psychologists will say it really, developmentally, is a huge rupture in a child’s sense of stability and security that is the foundation for them to grow in a healthy way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:17:08] \u003c/em>Oh my God, and she’s so young when she witnessed that too. It seems like it’s just left them with a series of difficult choices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:17:17] \u003c/em>Yeah, and not a lot of options. Yeah. And Emily, by all accounts, was a lovely, peaceful, pretty easy child who slept through the night as a three-year-old. And since her dad was arrested, she wakes up screaming pretty much every night, is what they say. And this is a year on now, more than a year since this happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:17:48] \u003c/em>She was fine before that and this all started with that. So like even when I have her here and when she goes to school and I’m working, it will be tough because she still doesn’t sleep through the night. Like it’s hard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:18:04] \u003c/em>What is next for this family, Tyche? I mean, do they plan to fight Ulises’ deportation? I mean what do they planned to do here?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:18:15] \u003c/em>I think the options are somewhat limited, but they have been fortunate that this call to the Rapid Response Network plugged them in with some legal support that has been like incredibly stalwart. And there are actually two different, you know, nonprofit legal offices involved. One of them is helping Ulysses with his immigration case, and one filed a complaint uh, under a federal law. Against ICE for the harm that they caused him. There is a level of an appeal to the appellate level of the immigration courts, but that would be his last chance to try to return to the U.S. And get some protection to be to live here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:19:11] \u003c/em>I guess I wanted to ask you this final question too, Tyche, which is what does this story say about how ICE is operating now versus in years past?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:19:23] \u003c/em>Donald Trump came into his second term very much on an explicit platform that he was going to wage a campaign of mass deportations. So we are seeing a lot more. And Ulises was, you know, this was in the very first weeks after Trump’s inauguration. One thing that we have also seen is that some of the accountability sort of watchdog agencies within DHS, Homeland Security, ICE, have really been dismantled. And that means that there’s less accountability. And so it becomes easier for behavior, bad actors, excessive use of force to go unremarked. And sort of condoned. Right, yeah. Immigration enforcement is happening twice as often here, and it’s just happening a lot more quietly. We’re not seeing street confrontations or the same kinds of sort of nabbing people out in a public setting. But we did see an arrest of a mother and daughter at SFO just the other day. There have been hundreds of thousands of people deported from the country. And it’s happening, arguably, in a more aggressive and violent way. And this administration has sort of set some benchmarks for how many arrests a day do we want. And that’s leading to a much more aggressive approach to immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:21:09] \u003c/em>Well, Tyche, thank you so much for joining us on the show. 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And three-year-old daughter. He was eventually deported to Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ulises Peña Lopez: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:37] \u003c/em>My life, my routine with my family was very different compared to what it is now. All these problems came to me when ICE arrived home that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:52] \u003c/em>During the first nine months of the Trump administration, immigration and customs enforcement arrests in the Bay Area have doubled. And with each person arrested, there’s a whole network of family members and community whose lives are upended too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:14] \u003c/em>Something I really wanted to understand was, yeah, we focus on these moments, these incidents, but then how does that ripple out? How does it unfold going forward for people? And what I found for this family was tremendous upheaval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:36] \u003c/em>Today, I talk with KQED’s senior immigration editor, Tyche Hendricks, about life after deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:06] \u003c/em>So Tyche, your story focuses on a man named Ulises Pena Lopez. Tell me a little bit about him and why you wanted to tell his story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:16] \u003c/em>Ulises Pena-Lopez came from Michoacan, Mexico when he was 18. He was fleeing cartel violence and the police were not protecting him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:29] \u003c/em>Tyche Hendricks is a senior immigration editor for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:35] \u003c/em>His uncle and his cousin, according to his lawyers, were killed by the cartel, and he was beaten and threatened with his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ulises Peña Lopez: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:42] \u003c/em>I started with my job as a carpenter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:47] \u003c/em>He came to the Bay Area, settled in Sunnyvale, became a carpenter and a member of the Carpenters’ Union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:56] \u003c/em>He is, of course, married to a woman named Abby Pena. They have a family together. They have one child. What was life like for the two of them and their family before his deportation?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:11] \u003c/em>They felt like they were, you know, making a good life together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:17] \u003c/em>He liked cooking a lot of like typical Mexican dishes like he really liked beef and like stew and like he loves rice a lot\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:27] \u003c/em>I met Abby at the house. She’s a licensed vocational nurse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:32] \u003c/em>So when they told me it was a girl, like at the appointment, I, he didn’t want me, he wanted me to like wait until he got home to tell him in person. But I was just too excited to tell them that it was a girl because I knew he wanted a girl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:45] \u003c/em>She had had a challenging pregnancy with some health complications and had actually ended up staying home with their daughter, Emily, for those early years of Emily’s life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:58] \u003c/em>And then our daughter would watch him like eating spicy stuff. So then she would ask him. And then she started getting used to it too. Now she likes like spicy food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:05:05] \u003c/em>And so she was loving being a full-time stay-at-home mom, and he was supporting the family. Yeah, had a little apartment in Sunnyvale on the edge of San Jose in that area. 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To monitor, check-on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:12] \u003c/em>Right, but it sounds like aside from his sort of health problems that he was monitoring, they sound like a pretty average working family in the Bay Area. And then one morning, February 21st, 2025, everything really changed for them. Can you tell me about what happened?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:35] \u003c/em>They were planning to go out and run some errands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:39] \u003c/em>He went downstairs to warm our vehicle, which you can literally see from here in our window. It’s the red vehicle that’s there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:46] \u003c/em>It was, I don’t know, seven in the morning. Abby was upstairs getting Emily ready and getting herself ready.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:52] \u003c/em>All of a sudden he called me and he’s like, ‘ICE is here, immigration’s here, they have me surrounded, I’m inside the vehicle.’ And I did not believe him at first. I was on the phone in the bathroom. I was like, cause we had just woken up. I did expect that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:16] \u003c/em>They had blocked the driveway and surrounded him in the carport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ulises Peña Lopez: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:20] \u003c/em>They were all covered up, they didn’t have a specific insignia that said ICE or police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:30] \u003c/em>The agents were telling him to get out of the car. They, according to him, were masked. Trust getting out of the car. So he didn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:43] \u003c/em>And I stepped outside but I could only stand like at the top of the stairs since we live on the second floor. The stairs were blocked with ICE agents like I could not go down they weren’t letting me go down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:55] \u003c/em>They took a baton and started banging on the window, cracked the window at which point he did open the door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:04] \u003c/em>The ICE agents were just screaming like there was a lot of them surrounding the vehicle and as soon as he like barely opened it, they just pulled him out violently and pushed him against the floor and the vehicle, yeah. It was scary because I didn’t know what to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:21] \u003c/em>He, you know, at one point, like collapsed onto the ground. He said they were kicking and beating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ulises Peña Lopez: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:28] \u003c/em>Me sacaron de la cabaneta, me tiraron al suelo, golpeándome, diciéndome palabras racistas. Me decían en inglés, ‘Fucking Mexican.’\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:37] \u003c/em>Looking at ICE’s report of the incident, they say that they saw him fumbling around and they imagined that he might be looking for a weapon and so they justified their forceful actions on the theory that he could be armed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:59] \u003c/em>And I remember telling them, like I said, that he has an appointment. He has to take his medications daily. And I just remember running back inside, grabbing a bag and putting all his medications in there. And I told them if they could at least take his medication with him, because he needs them. And just one of them took them away from me, but I don’t know what happened to those medications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:20] \u003c/em>Then they sort of hoisted him up and held him against the car and handcuffed him and threw him in their own vehicle and drove off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:28] \u003c/em>Oh my gosh, and their daughter was watching all of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:31] \u003c/em>Emily was screaming and crying and, you know, inconsolable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:36] \u003c/em>Where does ICE end up taking him?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:38] \u003c/em>They ended up taking him, according to his lawyer and according to some records, including ICE’s own records, to an alley behind some shops, including a hardware store that was a few minutes’ drive from the house. And he says they pulled him out of the vehicle there and beat him some more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ulises Peña Lopez: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:01] \u003c/em>And I had my hands exposed to the back and they started hitting me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:09] \u003c/em>Legal documents that they filed with a federal court. They have doctors testifying that he had probably both a heart attack and a stroke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:20] \u003c/em>Oh my goodness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ulises Peña Lopez: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:22] \u003c/em>No se me perdió el conocimiento. Cuando recuperé mi conocimiento, estaba conectado al hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:29] \u003c/em>Says that he lost consciousness as he was being beaten, and then he came to some what and he heard an officer say, you know, call 911 basically, and he and somebody was on his chest at that point giving CPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:58] \u003c/em>What a terrifying sequence of events. And I imagine then he woke up in the emergency room. What was that experience like for him?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:11:09] \u003c/em>He came-to in the emergency room. I think there were a lot of wires and tubes and things attached to his body. And there were ICE agents guarding his bed. And during his stay there, he was handcuffed to the bed because he was under arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:11:29] \u003c/em>According to federal documents, ICE had flagged Ulises’ whereabouts early last year. The ICE arrest report mentions several misdemeanor convictions from his 20s. And it’s these convictions that may have marked Ulises as a target for ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:11:55] \u003c/em>Meanwhile, back at the house, at the apartment, Abby was frantic, and she called Ulises’ mother, who lives nearby, and said, this is what happened. You know, what do I do?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:09] \u003c/em>And then she’s like, Oh, I saw this number on the TV for rapid response. And she gave me the number and I just called there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:17] \u003c/em>And she spoke to a lawyer. And once Abby was able to find somebody to take care of her daughter, went to the hospital and tried to see him. And they were blocked for many, many hours and ultimately had short visits with him, but only with ICE present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:35] \u003c/em>I was there until really, really late at the hospital that day, and the ICE agents were there the whole time with him, so they never gave him any time alone with his lawyer that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:45] \u003c/em>Aby says that they took her phone away from her when she did get to see him, and I think this happene with the lawyer as well, so that they weren’t able to take photographs of the shape that he was in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:58] \u003c/em>Yeah of his condition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:13:05] \u003c/em>Ulises, within 24 hours or so, he spent a night at the hospital, and then ICE transferred him to an immigration detention center down in Kern County in McFarland. And he spent the next eight months or so in ICE detention and had very limited access to medical care. And by all accounts, it was very inadequate to his needs. Then he was deported back to Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:13:46] \u003c/em>Coming up, how Ulises’ deportation has affected everything else. 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Over the course of the detention, agents frequently searched beneath Ms. Savageford’s clothing and forced Ms. Savageford to undress,” according to the complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The claim of Matt Allen said he came out to a protest later that day, after Pretti was shot. When federal agents began using tear gas and flash-bang grenades, Allen began to walk away, but he was hit in the back with projectiles. 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He said the legal team, which also involves lawyers in Minnesota, is in the process of vetting 80 more cases, and added that additional people came forward with potential claims after the press conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he said one obstacle to filing a lawsuit is identifying the agents involved, most of whom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12072927/after-us-judge-blocks-californias-ice-mask-ban-scott-wiener-says-he-will-make-it-enforceable\">were masked\u003c/a> and did not wear visible identification of their names or badge numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burris said Trump administration leadership, including then-Homeland Security Secretary \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12075499/trump-fires-kristi-noem-as-dhs-chief-names-sen-markwayne-mullin-to-replace-her\">Kristi Noem\u003c/a> and White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, also bear responsibility because of statements they made that officers \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12070101/california-prosecutors-push-back-on-ice-immunity-claims\">had legal immunity\u003c/a> for their actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12075500\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12075500\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/gettyimages-2247182200-scaled-e1772739892149.jpeg\" alt=\"Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem attends a meeting in the Oval Office on Nov. 17, 2025.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1344\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem attends a meeting in the Oval Office on Nov. 17, 2025. \u003ccite>(Win McNamee/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“That gave direction, it seems to me, to the officers to believe that there were no restraints,” he said. “This goes to the very top of the agency, because they’re the ones that created this environment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burris said he was struck by what good people the Minneapolis protesters are and feels honored to represent them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are just ordinary citizens who are speaking up in a sense of outrage over what was happening to the people in their community,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sarah Allen added that she and her husband were filing the claims to hold the Trump administration accountable for breaking the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We cannot allow this to continue,” she said. “We’re Minnesotan through and through, which means we protect each other. 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"content": "\u003cp>Since \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/03/13/nx-s1-5744648/as-partial-shutdown-drags-on-morning-edition-checks-out-tsa-lines-at-3-airports\">Feb. 14\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/air-travel\">Transportation Security Administration\u003c/a> staff have worked without pay due to the ongoing partial government shutdown — and with many calling out of work, passengers across the United States have experienced \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/03/21/nx-s1-5755796/airport-security-tsa-lines-travel-tips\">hourslong security screening lines\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This weekend, President Donald Trump announced that as of Monday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents would be deployed to airports to support TSA operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration said that ICE officers would be on duty to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077292/is-ice-at-sfo-heres-what-we-know-about-videos-of-woman-being-forcefully-detained\">assist with airport security staffing\u003c/a>. But the presence of ICE officers has \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeBTNUdzvN8\">sparked fear and\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/immigration/2026/03/23/ice-officers-at-airports-could-sow-fear-latino-group-warns/89294194007/?gnt-cfr=1&gca-cat=p&gca-uir=true&gca-epti=z116320p119050l004550c119050e1123xxv116320d--45--b--45--&gca-ft=168&gca-ds=sophi\">uncertainty \u003c/a>among travelers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco International Airport, the Bay Area’s biggest airport, has been spared long wait lines by the fact that its security screening is \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/flysfo/p/DWHseVzDnnc/\">contracted by a private company\u003c/a> rather than TSA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on Sunday night, in an incident\u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/1s1a3lq/ice_already_causing_havoc_at_sfo/\"> captured on video\u003c/a>, plainclothes immigration officers were seen at SFO \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077292/is-ice-at-sfo-heres-what-we-know-about-videos-of-woman-being-forcefully-detained\">forcefully handling a woman in front of her young child\u003c/a>. SFO was not on the list of 14 airports \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/tsa-wait-times-ice-airports-03-23-26?post-id=cmn37qf65000q3b6rfo32wpep\">obtained by CNN\u003c/a> where ICE would be appearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#SFO\">Why was ICE at SFO on Sunday?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#Questions\">Do I have to answer ICE’s questions in an airport?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#Film\">Is it legal to film ICE in an airport?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12067064\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEATING-91-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12067064\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEATING-91-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEATING-91-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEATING-91-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEATING-91-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The International Terminal at San Francisco International Airport on Dec. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So what should you know about ICE in U.S. airports right now? Keep reading for what we know about immigration officers, air travel and your rights around ICE officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bear in mind that the following information doesn’t constitute legal advice, and you should direct any specific questions about your individual situation to a lawyer.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Which U.S. airports have ICE been deployed to?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/22/us/politics/ice-airports-homan-trump.html?smid=url-share\">reporting by\u003cem> The New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, 14 airports around the country will host ICE agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/tsa-wait-times-ice-airports-03-23-26?post-id=cmn37qf65000q3b6rfo32wpep\">CNN reported\u003c/a> that these locations include Chicago-O’Hare International Airport, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, John F. Kennedy International and LaGuardia airports in New York and Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No California airports appear on CNN’s current list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, a TSA spokesperson confirmed to KQED that ICE would be deployed to “airports being adversely impacted” by TSA callouts and resignations — and that none of these were in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"SFO\">\u003c/a>Why was ICE at SFO on Sunday?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In footage from around 10 p.m. Sunday that was posted to social media, men wearing dark clothing were filmed at SFO pulling a crying woman from an airport terminal bench and then pushing her into a wheelchair — as a girl of around 10 is heard crying nearby. San Francisco police officers were seen standing by as the arrest occurred.[aside postID=news_12047506 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250609-SEIUProtests-07-BL_qed.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The men are not wearing visible badges or agency markings, but the Department of Homeland Security \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/dhsgov/status/2036158826341077203?s=46&t=PMxn5DJx4Cr-fWgaQBUvVA\">said\u003c/a> on the social media platform X Monday that they were, in fact, ICE officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a DHS spokesperson, the woman and her daughter were arrested at the airport and were being “escorted to the international terminal for processing” when the woman tried to flee. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077292/is-ice-at-sfo-heres-what-we-know-about-videos-of-woman-being-forcefully-detained\">Read more about Sunday night’s incident at SFO.\u003c/a> As reported by \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> on Tuesday evening, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/us/tsa-data-ice-deportation-san-francisco-airport.html\">ICE had originally been alerted\u003c/a> to the pair’s presence at SFO by TSA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/flysfo/p/DWPA-h5D_QG/\">a statement released by SFO\u003c/a>, the airport was “not involved in or notified in advance of this incident.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We understand federal officers were transporting two individuals on an outbound flight when this incident occurred,” the statement reads. “We believe this is an isolated incident and have no reason to suspect broader enforcement action at SFO.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DWPGTBvmGX9/\">San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie echoed the airport’s statement on Monday in a social media post\u003c/a>. Lurie said in his statement that local law enforcement “does not participate in federal civil immigration enforcement,” although \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2026/03/attorneys-say-sfpd-may-have-violated-the-law-during-ice-arrest-at-sfo/\">some immigration attorneys have nonetheless questioned SFPD’s presence\u003c/a> during the arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Monday afternoon, local immigration advocates said they were \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/sfrrn_/p/DWPQRS4lMjl/\">still assessing the situation\u003c/a> and working to “confirm all the facts related to this incident.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After killing people in our streets and detaining U.S. citizens, ICE has lost all credibility and trust with the public,” Bay Area Rep. Kevin Mullin and Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi said in a joint statement. “We demand immediate answers as to the mother’s and her child’s condition and the grounds for their detainment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Can ICE arrest people at the airport?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yes, there have been documented instances of \u003ca href=\"https://www.nilc.org/resources/community-alert-immigration-arrests-at-airports/\">ICE arresting people at airports\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jonathan Blazer, director of border strategies and senior advisor at the American Civil Liberties Union, said that there is “nothing that categorically prohibits ICE from going into an airport as an immigration enforcement agent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, Blazer said, ICE agents have used commercial flights in the past to transport individuals on deportation flights — or to transfer arrested people to immigration detention centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12067210\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEating-86-BL_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12067210\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEating-86-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEating-86-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEating-86-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEating-86-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Passengers wait for their flight at San Francisco International Airport on Dec. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Additionally, as first reported by \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/us/politics/immigration-tsa-passenger-data.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9U8.1lIj.Qa1WfLVCwcJB&smid=url-share\">\u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a> in December 2025, TSA has shared information about air travelers who are believed to be under deportation orders with ICE, enabling immigration agents to make arrests at the airport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Blazer said that this week’s deployment of ICE to airports — the “mere presence for this purpose, in an untargeted fashion, in large numbers” — was “unprecedented.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/ice-tsa-wait-times-shutdown-03-24-26?post-id=cmn48kb0y00823b6p6u9q5bxl\">CNN on Tuesday morning\u003c/a>, Trump said that agents will continue arresting undocumented people, but said of ICE agents in airports: “That’s not why they’re there; they’re really there to help.” (Most TSA officers are \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/what-do-when-encountering-law-enforcement-airports-and-other-ports-entry-us#what-types-of-law-enforcement-officers-and-other-government-officials-could-i-encounter-during-the-security-screening-process-at-the-airport\">not commissioned law enforcement officers\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Part of what’s so challenging here is that the Trump administration hasn’t really made clear what authorities they are vesting with ICE as part of this mission,” Blazer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its roundup of \u003ca href=\"https://www.nilc.org/resources/community-alert-immigration-arrests-at-airports/\">risks of air travel,\u003c/a> the National Immigration Law Center said that for people who are undocumented, have temporary immigration status or who are under a deportation order, there is “a significant risk of arrest at a U.S. airport.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, NILC also said that “all non-citizens face some risk” while traveling through U.S. airports, including those with green cards, if they have certain criminal convictions or who have Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates encourage \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DWMjSDSgeoZ/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D\">passengers who aren’t U.S. citizens to talk to a lawyer\u003c/a> about their specific situation before traveling.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Customs and Border Protection already regularly works in airports. What’s the difference between their powers and ICE’s?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>ICE and CBP are both immigration enforcement agencies within DHS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While \u003ca href=\"https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/LSB/LSB10362\">ICE conducts enforcement within the U.S.\u003c/a> and manages detention and deportation operations, CBP conducts inspections at all U.S. “ports of entry” — at land borders, seaports and airports.[aside postID=news_12025647 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-1243312873-1020x680.jpg'] ACLU’s Blazer said that while CBP has a lot of “power when they’re screening people coming in on an international flight,” that doesn’t apply to \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/cbp-cant-detain-domestic-flight-passengers-refusing-suspicionless-id-checks#:~:text=CBP%20is%20bound%20by%20those,actions%20that%20participation%20is%20voluntary.\">domestic flights\u003c/a>. For example, CBP — and ICE — should not be able to check your electronic devices without a warrant for a domestic flight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicole Hallett, director of the Immigrants’ Rights Clinic and a clinical professor of law at the University of Chicago, told the \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/tips/ice-agents-tsa-airports/\">\u003cem>Washington Post\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that ICE cannot search a passenger’s personal belongings without a warrant — and can only do this if they are working on behalf of an agency that \u003cem>can\u003c/em>, like CBP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they’re acting as a TSA agent, they have to follow TSA rules. If they’re acting as a CBP agent and doing Border Patrol work, then they have the authority that Border Patrol has,” Hallett said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And if they are just merely standing in the airport as ICE officers, then they have the same legal authority that any ICE officer standing in a public location has,” she said. (Regardless, she said that ICE can \u003ca href=\"https://archive.ph/YWJ1z#selection-853.62-853.119\">approach passengers anywhere\u003c/a> in the airport, including after security.)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What should I do if ICE approaches me in the airport?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At border checkpoints — including airports — officers can ask questions, carry out personal searches and detain people with wide latitude, Ahilan Arulanantham, co-director of the UCLA School of Law’s Center for Immigration Law & Policy, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/09/05/nx-s1-5517998/ice-arrest-rules-explained\">told NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Blazer said that in order for ICE to arrest someone for an immigration violation \u003cem>without\u003c/em> a warrant, they would \u003ca href=\"https://immigrantjustice.org/sites/default/files/content-type/page/documents/2025-01/Castanon-Nava_training_slides_2025-01-16-english.pdf\">need to establish probable cause\u003c/a> that the person is in the U.S. in violation of U.S. immigration laws — and that the person is likely to escape before a warrant can be obtained for the arrest. There has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/five-individuals-launch-class-action-lawsuit-over-warrantless-immigration-arrests-in-north-carolina\">recent litigation across the country\u003c/a> challenging some of ICE’s warrantless arrests, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12067757\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251210-SFOEating-24-BL_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12067757\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251210-SFOEating-24-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251210-SFOEating-24-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251210-SFOEating-24-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251210-SFOEating-24-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Passengers walk past a flight board in Harvey Milk Terminal 1 at San Francisco International Airport on Dec. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>ICE officers \u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>have no additional authority in an airport,” Blazer said. But in reality, he said, the constitutional protections and rights people have can be “a lot trickier to make the choice to exercise them” in an airport setting for most people — who are dealing not only with the added pressures of catching expensive flights but also the impatience of other passengers in the security line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, people — whether \u003ca href=\"https://www.ilrc.org/community-resources/know-your-rights-faq#item-5131\">citizens or immigrants\u003c/a> — have the right to ask an immigration officer, “Am I free to go?” If they don’t have a specific, individualized, reasonable suspicion that you’ve committed a crime, they can’t question you further and you can go, Blazer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But let’s think about how that works in the airport context,” he said. “‘Am I free to go?’ and leaving means that I’m probably leaving the airport to get myself out of a situation, and I may miss my flight at that point.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Questions\">\u003c/a>Do I have to answer ICE’s questions at the airport?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If an ICE agent asks you questions in the airport, you “have the same right to remain silent as you do on the street,” Blazer said. “Nothing changes just because you’re in an airport.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this is another example of how the pressures of the airport setting can affect your situation, Blazer said. If you choose to exercise your right to remain silent, the officer may pull you out of the security line and try to ask more questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have the same rights, but in that environment, there are additional costs associated with exercising those rights,” Blazer said. “Many people in that situation, out of their own self-interest … ‘go along to get along’ as much as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What if ICE asks me for ID?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/news/2026/03/23/ice-agents-airports-tsa-my-rights/89278550007/\">reporting from USA Today\u003c/a>, travelers do need to provide identification and comply with TSA screening to board a flight. But generally, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ilrc.org/community-resources/know-your-rights-faq#item-5131\">citizens and immigrants \u003c/a>have the right to remain silent when talking to law enforcement, including ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Asian Law Caucus said that if you believe you are being taken into ICE custody, \u003ca href=\"https://www.asianlawcaucus.org/news-resources/guides-reports/know-your-rights-at-airports\">you should practice your right to remain silent and should not answer any questions\u003c/a>. You should also not sign any documents without a lawyer reviewing them, the organization said.[aside postID=news_12038914 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/ICE-three-agents.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blazer said that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12065885/ice-immigration-us-citizens-detained-carry-passports-documentation-green-card\">federal law \u003c/a>said people with lawful permanent residency or other visas that grant them lawful status must carry proof of their status with them — like their green card. “And it may be in their interest, in terms of avoiding further improper questioning or improper unlawful arrests, to answer those questions and to show that proof of status,” Blazer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So even though you have a right \u003cem>not \u003c/em>to, I want to make clear that people are going to need to make an individualized decision as to whether it’s in their interest to exercise that right,” he said. “Especially if they are an adult green cardholder or somebody else who is subject to a federal law requiring them to carry proof of their status at all times.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Film\">\u003c/a>Is it legal to film ICE?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“Taking photographs and video of things that are plainly visible in public spaces is \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/issues/free-speech/photographers-rights/filming-and-photographing-police\">a constitutional right\u003c/a> — and that includes police and other government officials carrying out their duties,” the ACLU’s guidance reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while there’s no Supreme Court ruling on an unambiguous First Amendment right to film law enforcement officers, “all of the seven U.S. Federal Circuit Courts that have considered the issue have pretty much said there is\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069590/are-you-allowed-to-record-ice\"> a First Amendment right to record the police \u003c/a>and observe the police,” criminal justice reporter C.J. Ciaramella at Reason told KQED’s Close All Tabs podcast earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12068316\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/BorderPatrolAgentsGetty.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12068316\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/BorderPatrolAgentsGetty.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/BorderPatrolAgentsGetty.jpeg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/BorderPatrolAgentsGetty-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/BorderPatrolAgentsGetty-1536x1025.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gregory Bovino, former Border Patrol commander at large (center), marches with federal agents to the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building after U.S. Border Patrol agents produced a show of force outside the Japanese American National Museum, where Gov. Newsom was holding a redistricting press conference on Thursday, Aug. 14, 2025, in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Carlin Stiehl / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But airports \u003cem>could\u003c/em> be a potentially harder environment to film, Blazer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not as though the First Amendment doesn’t exist at airports, but airports are not traditional public domain in a way that parks [are],” Blazer said. For example, some TSA security lines have a sign nearby that says “no photos.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They rarely enforce that, but it just shows you that it’s already a more regulated environment in which they can impose certain restrictions,” Blazer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It \u003cem>is\u003c/em> lawful to film law enforcement in “any open, visible place when they’re performing their duties,” Blazer said, echoing the guidance laid out in \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/issues/free-speech/photographers-rights/filming-and-photographing-police\">this thorough guide by the ACLU\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But at the same time, it can be permissible for airport operators to impose certain reasonable rules, and those rules might include restricting photographing in particular areas of the airport,” Blazer said.[aside postID=news_12026817 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/GettyImages-2197914000-1020x680.jpg'] Practically, it could be hard to argue against an airport official who is telling you not to take photos in an area, Blazer said. And there may be a legal fight after the fact, “if a person doesn’t comply with that order and is arrested or is taken out of the line,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But, I think, the practical reality is that” in an airport “environment, it gets harder to exercise that right,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11871364/recording-the-police-what-to-know-and-how-to-stay-safe-doing-it\">Bystander videos also provide important counternarratives\u003c/a> to official law enforcement accounts. After the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti by ICE officers in Minnesota earlier this year, Trump administration officials immediately claimed Pretti was a “domestic terrorist” intending to “massacre” officers — \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/01/25/nx-s1-5687875/minneapolis-shooting-minnesota-ice-alex-pretti-dhs-investigation\">claims contradicted\u003c/a> by the multiple eyewitness videos taken of the killing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials with the Trump administration have, however, \u003ca href=\"https://abc3340.com/news/nation-world/secretary-kristi-noem-addresses-surge-in-attacks-on-ice-agents-in-tampa-dhs-us-immigration-and-customs-enforcement-agents-florida-department-of-homeland-security-july-13-2025\">characterized filming ICE as “violence” and “doxing,”\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069590/are-you-allowed-to-record-ice\">Americans have faced detention\u003c/a> by ICE \u003ca href=\"https://www.fox9.com/news/ice-detains-woodbury-man-filming-agents\">after filming agents.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So all in all, while recording ICE might be your constitutional right, it also brings increasing risks. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11871364/recording-the-police-what-to-know-and-how-to-stay-safe-doing-it\">Read more about the logistics — and risks — of recording law enforcement officers like ICE agents.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What do immigrant advocates say about traveling during this time? \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>San Francisco advocacy group \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/sfrrn_/p/DWPQRS4lMjl/?img_index=2\">Mission Action\u003c/a> warns that noncitizens who do not currently have legal status “should carefully consider the risks of air travel, including domestic flights within the U.S.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Recent reporting suggests increased risks, including that TSA may be sharing traveler information with ICE, which could expose individuals to enforcement,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/sfrrn_/p/DWPQRS4lMjl/?img_index=2\">their social media post\u003c/a> reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077525\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/GettyImages-2267556279-scaled-e1774466569963.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077525\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/GettyImages-2267556279-scaled-e1774466569963.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Atlanta Police Department officers look on as travelers stand in long lines at Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport on March 23, 2026, in Atlanta, Georgia. \u003ccite>(Photo by Megan Varner/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Alameda County Immigration Legal Education Partnership said people should \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DWMjSDSgeoZ/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D\">“talk to an attorney before flying to understand your risk.”\u003c/a> The \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DWMjSDSgeoZ/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D\">guidance\u003c/a> suggested people plan extra time before traveling and keep key documents — like \u003ca href=\"https://www.nilc.org/resources/community-alert-immigration-arrests-at-airports/\">proof of lawful status, pending applications or certified copies of criminal cases if the case was closed\u003c/a> — on hand. The organization emphasized that people should not “sign anything” they’re given by immigration agents that they “don’t understand.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ACLU Northern California has \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunorcal.org/know-your-rights/know-your-rights-us-airports-and-ports-entry/\">a page that breaks down your rights at the airport \u003c/a>and whether or not border officers can ask about your immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to ACLU NorCal, U.S. citizens only have to \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunorcal.org/know-your-rights/know-your-rights-us-airports-and-ports-entry/\">“answer questions establishing your identity and citizenship\u003c/a> (in addition to customs-related questions).”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the organization cautions that \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/what-do-when-encountering-law-enforcement-airports-and-other-ports-entry-us\">“refusing to answer routine questions \u003c/a>about the nature and purpose of your travel could result in delay and/or further inspection.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noncitizen visa holders and visitors who refuse to answer questions could face a delay or be denied entry. Lawful permanent residents, like green card holders, only have to answer questions about their identity and permanent residency, \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunorcal.org/know-your-rights/know-your-rights-us-airports-and-ports-entry/\">according to ACLU NorCal.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Refusal to answer other questions will likely cause delay, but officials may not deny you entry into the U.S. for failure to answer other questions,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunorcal.org/know-your-rights/know-your-rights-us-airports-and-ports-entry/\">ACLU NorCal\u003c/a> advised legal permanent residents — noting that green card status “may be revoked only by an immigration judge,” and warning, “Do not give up your green card voluntarily!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Asian Law Caucus also has \u003ca href=\"https://www.asianlawcaucus.org/news-resources/guides-reports/know-your-rights-at-airports\">a helpful chart\u003c/a> on what people of differing statuses can expect in airports when it comes to their baggage, device searches and length of potential detainment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What should I do if I think I see ICE in an airport?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Instead of posting possible ICE sightings to social media, immigration advocates \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025647/what-to-do-if-you-encounter-ice\">highly encourage\u003c/a> people to call them first instead. With these hotlines, advocates can \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024332/ice-raids-in-california-how-to-sort-fact-from-rumor-online\">fact-check these sightings\u003c/a>, with the goal of preventing the spread of misinformation online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can find the complete and updated list of rapid response numbers on \u003ca href=\"https://www.ccijustice.org/carrn\">the California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice’s website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also follow these organizations on \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/acilep_rapidresponse/\">their social media accounts\u003c/a> to see if these are confirmed sightings or just rumors.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Immigration agents detained someone I know. How do I find them?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Typically, a person of any status can be \u003ca href=\"https://www.asianlawcaucus.org/news-resources/guides-reports/know-your-rights-at-airports\">detained up to 72 hours at a port of entry\u003c/a>, according to the Asian Law Caucus. They can also be transferred to criminal or ICE custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED has\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047506/searching-for-a-loved-one-in-ice-custody-heres-what-you-need-to-know\"> a guide that walks you through\u003c/a> how to potentially locate someone through different detention centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The primary way to find someone is through \u003ca href=\"https://locator.ice.gov/odls/#/search\">ICE’s Online Detainee Locator System\u003c/a>. You can also call ICE at \u003ca href=\"https://www.help.cbp.gov/s/article/Article-1706?language=en_US\">866-347-2423\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"https://help.asylumadvocacy.org/faqs-other-topics/#detained-loved-one\">Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project\u003c/a>, it may take a few days for a person to appear in the ICE database. If the name you’re searching for isn’t showing up in the ICE system — or if you’re concerned about their safety and possible deportation — you can seek out assistance from advocacy organizations such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.freedomforimmigrants.org/hotline\">Freedom for Immigrants\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013522/free-legal-aid-in-the-bay-area-how-it-works-where-to-find-it\">Read more on how to find free or low-cost legal aid in the Bay Area.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story contains reporting from KQED’s Katie DeBenedetti, Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí, Tyche Hendricks and Carly Severn.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco International Airport, the Bay Area’s biggest airport, has been spared long wait lines by the fact that its security screening is \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/flysfo/p/DWHseVzDnnc/\">contracted by a private company\u003c/a> rather than TSA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on Sunday night, in an incident\u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/1s1a3lq/ice_already_causing_havoc_at_sfo/\"> captured on video\u003c/a>, plainclothes immigration officers were seen at SFO \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077292/is-ice-at-sfo-heres-what-we-know-about-videos-of-woman-being-forcefully-detained\">forcefully handling a woman in front of her young child\u003c/a>. SFO was not on the list of 14 airports \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/tsa-wait-times-ice-airports-03-23-26?post-id=cmn37qf65000q3b6rfo32wpep\">obtained by CNN\u003c/a> where ICE would be appearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#SFO\">Why was ICE at SFO on Sunday?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#Questions\">Do I have to answer ICE’s questions in an airport?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#Film\">Is it legal to film ICE in an airport?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12067064\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEATING-91-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12067064\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEATING-91-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEATING-91-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEATING-91-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEATING-91-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The International Terminal at San Francisco International Airport on Dec. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So what should you know about ICE in U.S. airports right now? Keep reading for what we know about immigration officers, air travel and your rights around ICE officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bear in mind that the following information doesn’t constitute legal advice, and you should direct any specific questions about your individual situation to a lawyer.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Which U.S. airports have ICE been deployed to?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/22/us/politics/ice-airports-homan-trump.html?smid=url-share\">reporting by\u003cem> The New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, 14 airports around the country will host ICE agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/tsa-wait-times-ice-airports-03-23-26?post-id=cmn37qf65000q3b6rfo32wpep\">CNN reported\u003c/a> that these locations include Chicago-O’Hare International Airport, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, John F. Kennedy International and LaGuardia airports in New York and Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No California airports appear on CNN’s current list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, a TSA spokesperson confirmed to KQED that ICE would be deployed to “airports being adversely impacted” by TSA callouts and resignations — and that none of these were in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"SFO\">\u003c/a>Why was ICE at SFO on Sunday?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In footage from around 10 p.m. Sunday that was posted to social media, men wearing dark clothing were filmed at SFO pulling a crying woman from an airport terminal bench and then pushing her into a wheelchair — as a girl of around 10 is heard crying nearby. San Francisco police officers were seen standing by as the arrest occurred.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The men are not wearing visible badges or agency markings, but the Department of Homeland Security \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/dhsgov/status/2036158826341077203?s=46&t=PMxn5DJx4Cr-fWgaQBUvVA\">said\u003c/a> on the social media platform X Monday that they were, in fact, ICE officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a DHS spokesperson, the woman and her daughter were arrested at the airport and were being “escorted to the international terminal for processing” when the woman tried to flee. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077292/is-ice-at-sfo-heres-what-we-know-about-videos-of-woman-being-forcefully-detained\">Read more about Sunday night’s incident at SFO.\u003c/a> As reported by \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> on Tuesday evening, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/us/tsa-data-ice-deportation-san-francisco-airport.html\">ICE had originally been alerted\u003c/a> to the pair’s presence at SFO by TSA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/flysfo/p/DWPA-h5D_QG/\">a statement released by SFO\u003c/a>, the airport was “not involved in or notified in advance of this incident.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We understand federal officers were transporting two individuals on an outbound flight when this incident occurred,” the statement reads. “We believe this is an isolated incident and have no reason to suspect broader enforcement action at SFO.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DWPGTBvmGX9/\">San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie echoed the airport’s statement on Monday in a social media post\u003c/a>. Lurie said in his statement that local law enforcement “does not participate in federal civil immigration enforcement,” although \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2026/03/attorneys-say-sfpd-may-have-violated-the-law-during-ice-arrest-at-sfo/\">some immigration attorneys have nonetheless questioned SFPD’s presence\u003c/a> during the arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Monday afternoon, local immigration advocates said they were \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/sfrrn_/p/DWPQRS4lMjl/\">still assessing the situation\u003c/a> and working to “confirm all the facts related to this incident.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After killing people in our streets and detaining U.S. citizens, ICE has lost all credibility and trust with the public,” Bay Area Rep. Kevin Mullin and Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi said in a joint statement. “We demand immediate answers as to the mother’s and her child’s condition and the grounds for their detainment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Can ICE arrest people at the airport?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yes, there have been documented instances of \u003ca href=\"https://www.nilc.org/resources/community-alert-immigration-arrests-at-airports/\">ICE arresting people at airports\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jonathan Blazer, director of border strategies and senior advisor at the American Civil Liberties Union, said that there is “nothing that categorically prohibits ICE from going into an airport as an immigration enforcement agent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, Blazer said, ICE agents have used commercial flights in the past to transport individuals on deportation flights — or to transfer arrested people to immigration detention centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12067210\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEating-86-BL_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12067210\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEating-86-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEating-86-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEating-86-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEating-86-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Passengers wait for their flight at San Francisco International Airport on Dec. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Additionally, as first reported by \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/us/politics/immigration-tsa-passenger-data.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9U8.1lIj.Qa1WfLVCwcJB&smid=url-share\">\u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a> in December 2025, TSA has shared information about air travelers who are believed to be under deportation orders with ICE, enabling immigration agents to make arrests at the airport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Blazer said that this week’s deployment of ICE to airports — the “mere presence for this purpose, in an untargeted fashion, in large numbers” — was “unprecedented.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/ice-tsa-wait-times-shutdown-03-24-26?post-id=cmn48kb0y00823b6p6u9q5bxl\">CNN on Tuesday morning\u003c/a>, Trump said that agents will continue arresting undocumented people, but said of ICE agents in airports: “That’s not why they’re there; they’re really there to help.” (Most TSA officers are \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/what-do-when-encountering-law-enforcement-airports-and-other-ports-entry-us#what-types-of-law-enforcement-officers-and-other-government-officials-could-i-encounter-during-the-security-screening-process-at-the-airport\">not commissioned law enforcement officers\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Part of what’s so challenging here is that the Trump administration hasn’t really made clear what authorities they are vesting with ICE as part of this mission,” Blazer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its roundup of \u003ca href=\"https://www.nilc.org/resources/community-alert-immigration-arrests-at-airports/\">risks of air travel,\u003c/a> the National Immigration Law Center said that for people who are undocumented, have temporary immigration status or who are under a deportation order, there is “a significant risk of arrest at a U.S. airport.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, NILC also said that “all non-citizens face some risk” while traveling through U.S. airports, including those with green cards, if they have certain criminal convictions or who have Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates encourage \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DWMjSDSgeoZ/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D\">passengers who aren’t U.S. citizens to talk to a lawyer\u003c/a> about their specific situation before traveling.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Customs and Border Protection already regularly works in airports. What’s the difference between their powers and ICE’s?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>ICE and CBP are both immigration enforcement agencies within DHS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While \u003ca href=\"https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/LSB/LSB10362\">ICE conducts enforcement within the U.S.\u003c/a> and manages detention and deportation operations, CBP conducts inspections at all U.S. “ports of entry” — at land borders, seaports and airports.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> ACLU’s Blazer said that while CBP has a lot of “power when they’re screening people coming in on an international flight,” that doesn’t apply to \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/cbp-cant-detain-domestic-flight-passengers-refusing-suspicionless-id-checks#:~:text=CBP%20is%20bound%20by%20those,actions%20that%20participation%20is%20voluntary.\">domestic flights\u003c/a>. For example, CBP — and ICE — should not be able to check your electronic devices without a warrant for a domestic flight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicole Hallett, director of the Immigrants’ Rights Clinic and a clinical professor of law at the University of Chicago, told the \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/tips/ice-agents-tsa-airports/\">\u003cem>Washington Post\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that ICE cannot search a passenger’s personal belongings without a warrant — and can only do this if they are working on behalf of an agency that \u003cem>can\u003c/em>, like CBP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they’re acting as a TSA agent, they have to follow TSA rules. If they’re acting as a CBP agent and doing Border Patrol work, then they have the authority that Border Patrol has,” Hallett said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And if they are just merely standing in the airport as ICE officers, then they have the same legal authority that any ICE officer standing in a public location has,” she said. (Regardless, she said that ICE can \u003ca href=\"https://archive.ph/YWJ1z#selection-853.62-853.119\">approach passengers anywhere\u003c/a> in the airport, including after security.)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What should I do if ICE approaches me in the airport?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At border checkpoints — including airports — officers can ask questions, carry out personal searches and detain people with wide latitude, Ahilan Arulanantham, co-director of the UCLA School of Law’s Center for Immigration Law & Policy, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/09/05/nx-s1-5517998/ice-arrest-rules-explained\">told NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Blazer said that in order for ICE to arrest someone for an immigration violation \u003cem>without\u003c/em> a warrant, they would \u003ca href=\"https://immigrantjustice.org/sites/default/files/content-type/page/documents/2025-01/Castanon-Nava_training_slides_2025-01-16-english.pdf\">need to establish probable cause\u003c/a> that the person is in the U.S. in violation of U.S. immigration laws — and that the person is likely to escape before a warrant can be obtained for the arrest. There has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/five-individuals-launch-class-action-lawsuit-over-warrantless-immigration-arrests-in-north-carolina\">recent litigation across the country\u003c/a> challenging some of ICE’s warrantless arrests, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12067757\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251210-SFOEating-24-BL_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12067757\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251210-SFOEating-24-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251210-SFOEating-24-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251210-SFOEating-24-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251210-SFOEating-24-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Passengers walk past a flight board in Harvey Milk Terminal 1 at San Francisco International Airport on Dec. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>ICE officers \u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>have no additional authority in an airport,” Blazer said. But in reality, he said, the constitutional protections and rights people have can be “a lot trickier to make the choice to exercise them” in an airport setting for most people — who are dealing not only with the added pressures of catching expensive flights but also the impatience of other passengers in the security line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, people — whether \u003ca href=\"https://www.ilrc.org/community-resources/know-your-rights-faq#item-5131\">citizens or immigrants\u003c/a> — have the right to ask an immigration officer, “Am I free to go?” If they don’t have a specific, individualized, reasonable suspicion that you’ve committed a crime, they can’t question you further and you can go, Blazer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But let’s think about how that works in the airport context,” he said. “‘Am I free to go?’ and leaving means that I’m probably leaving the airport to get myself out of a situation, and I may miss my flight at that point.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Questions\">\u003c/a>Do I have to answer ICE’s questions at the airport?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If an ICE agent asks you questions in the airport, you “have the same right to remain silent as you do on the street,” Blazer said. “Nothing changes just because you’re in an airport.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this is another example of how the pressures of the airport setting can affect your situation, Blazer said. If you choose to exercise your right to remain silent, the officer may pull you out of the security line and try to ask more questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have the same rights, but in that environment, there are additional costs associated with exercising those rights,” Blazer said. “Many people in that situation, out of their own self-interest … ‘go along to get along’ as much as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What if ICE asks me for ID?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/news/2026/03/23/ice-agents-airports-tsa-my-rights/89278550007/\">reporting from USA Today\u003c/a>, travelers do need to provide identification and comply with TSA screening to board a flight. But generally, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ilrc.org/community-resources/know-your-rights-faq#item-5131\">citizens and immigrants \u003c/a>have the right to remain silent when talking to law enforcement, including ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Asian Law Caucus said that if you believe you are being taken into ICE custody, \u003ca href=\"https://www.asianlawcaucus.org/news-resources/guides-reports/know-your-rights-at-airports\">you should practice your right to remain silent and should not answer any questions\u003c/a>. You should also not sign any documents without a lawyer reviewing them, the organization said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blazer said that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12065885/ice-immigration-us-citizens-detained-carry-passports-documentation-green-card\">federal law \u003c/a>said people with lawful permanent residency or other visas that grant them lawful status must carry proof of their status with them — like their green card. “And it may be in their interest, in terms of avoiding further improper questioning or improper unlawful arrests, to answer those questions and to show that proof of status,” Blazer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So even though you have a right \u003cem>not \u003c/em>to, I want to make clear that people are going to need to make an individualized decision as to whether it’s in their interest to exercise that right,” he said. “Especially if they are an adult green cardholder or somebody else who is subject to a federal law requiring them to carry proof of their status at all times.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Film\">\u003c/a>Is it legal to film ICE?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“Taking photographs and video of things that are plainly visible in public spaces is \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/issues/free-speech/photographers-rights/filming-and-photographing-police\">a constitutional right\u003c/a> — and that includes police and other government officials carrying out their duties,” the ACLU’s guidance reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while there’s no Supreme Court ruling on an unambiguous First Amendment right to film law enforcement officers, “all of the seven U.S. Federal Circuit Courts that have considered the issue have pretty much said there is\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069590/are-you-allowed-to-record-ice\"> a First Amendment right to record the police \u003c/a>and observe the police,” criminal justice reporter C.J. Ciaramella at Reason told KQED’s Close All Tabs podcast earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12068316\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/BorderPatrolAgentsGetty.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12068316\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/BorderPatrolAgentsGetty.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/BorderPatrolAgentsGetty.jpeg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/BorderPatrolAgentsGetty-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/BorderPatrolAgentsGetty-1536x1025.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gregory Bovino, former Border Patrol commander at large (center), marches with federal agents to the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building after U.S. Border Patrol agents produced a show of force outside the Japanese American National Museum, where Gov. Newsom was holding a redistricting press conference on Thursday, Aug. 14, 2025, in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Carlin Stiehl / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But airports \u003cem>could\u003c/em> be a potentially harder environment to film, Blazer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not as though the First Amendment doesn’t exist at airports, but airports are not traditional public domain in a way that parks [are],” Blazer said. For example, some TSA security lines have a sign nearby that says “no photos.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They rarely enforce that, but it just shows you that it’s already a more regulated environment in which they can impose certain restrictions,” Blazer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It \u003cem>is\u003c/em> lawful to film law enforcement in “any open, visible place when they’re performing their duties,” Blazer said, echoing the guidance laid out in \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/issues/free-speech/photographers-rights/filming-and-photographing-police\">this thorough guide by the ACLU\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But at the same time, it can be permissible for airport operators to impose certain reasonable rules, and those rules might include restricting photographing in particular areas of the airport,” Blazer said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> Practically, it could be hard to argue against an airport official who is telling you not to take photos in an area, Blazer said. And there may be a legal fight after the fact, “if a person doesn’t comply with that order and is arrested or is taken out of the line,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But, I think, the practical reality is that” in an airport “environment, it gets harder to exercise that right,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11871364/recording-the-police-what-to-know-and-how-to-stay-safe-doing-it\">Bystander videos also provide important counternarratives\u003c/a> to official law enforcement accounts. After the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti by ICE officers in Minnesota earlier this year, Trump administration officials immediately claimed Pretti was a “domestic terrorist” intending to “massacre” officers — \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/01/25/nx-s1-5687875/minneapolis-shooting-minnesota-ice-alex-pretti-dhs-investigation\">claims contradicted\u003c/a> by the multiple eyewitness videos taken of the killing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials with the Trump administration have, however, \u003ca href=\"https://abc3340.com/news/nation-world/secretary-kristi-noem-addresses-surge-in-attacks-on-ice-agents-in-tampa-dhs-us-immigration-and-customs-enforcement-agents-florida-department-of-homeland-security-july-13-2025\">characterized filming ICE as “violence” and “doxing,”\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069590/are-you-allowed-to-record-ice\">Americans have faced detention\u003c/a> by ICE \u003ca href=\"https://www.fox9.com/news/ice-detains-woodbury-man-filming-agents\">after filming agents.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So all in all, while recording ICE might be your constitutional right, it also brings increasing risks. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11871364/recording-the-police-what-to-know-and-how-to-stay-safe-doing-it\">Read more about the logistics — and risks — of recording law enforcement officers like ICE agents.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What do immigrant advocates say about traveling during this time? \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>San Francisco advocacy group \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/sfrrn_/p/DWPQRS4lMjl/?img_index=2\">Mission Action\u003c/a> warns that noncitizens who do not currently have legal status “should carefully consider the risks of air travel, including domestic flights within the U.S.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Recent reporting suggests increased risks, including that TSA may be sharing traveler information with ICE, which could expose individuals to enforcement,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/sfrrn_/p/DWPQRS4lMjl/?img_index=2\">their social media post\u003c/a> reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077525\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/GettyImages-2267556279-scaled-e1774466569963.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077525\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/GettyImages-2267556279-scaled-e1774466569963.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Atlanta Police Department officers look on as travelers stand in long lines at Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport on March 23, 2026, in Atlanta, Georgia. \u003ccite>(Photo by Megan Varner/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Alameda County Immigration Legal Education Partnership said people should \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DWMjSDSgeoZ/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D\">“talk to an attorney before flying to understand your risk.”\u003c/a> The \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DWMjSDSgeoZ/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D\">guidance\u003c/a> suggested people plan extra time before traveling and keep key documents — like \u003ca href=\"https://www.nilc.org/resources/community-alert-immigration-arrests-at-airports/\">proof of lawful status, pending applications or certified copies of criminal cases if the case was closed\u003c/a> — on hand. The organization emphasized that people should not “sign anything” they’re given by immigration agents that they “don’t understand.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ACLU Northern California has \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunorcal.org/know-your-rights/know-your-rights-us-airports-and-ports-entry/\">a page that breaks down your rights at the airport \u003c/a>and whether or not border officers can ask about your immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to ACLU NorCal, U.S. citizens only have to \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunorcal.org/know-your-rights/know-your-rights-us-airports-and-ports-entry/\">“answer questions establishing your identity and citizenship\u003c/a> (in addition to customs-related questions).”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the organization cautions that \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/what-do-when-encountering-law-enforcement-airports-and-other-ports-entry-us\">“refusing to answer routine questions \u003c/a>about the nature and purpose of your travel could result in delay and/or further inspection.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noncitizen visa holders and visitors who refuse to answer questions could face a delay or be denied entry. 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