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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When Vanessa Perez Rojas began her first year at Saint Mary’s College in Moraga, she recalled feeling a bit lost and out of place. Growing up in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> with parents who migrated from Mexico and El Salvador, she said she wasn’t exposed to much information about college.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“I had no idea how to even declare a major. I didn’t really even know where to look,” said the 21-year-old speaking from campus, where graduation celebrations often include mariachi bands and taco bars.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Perez Rojas knew of Saint Mary’s because her older brother had attended — which gave her the confidence that she could find support as a first-generation college student. More than one-third of St. Mary’s students are Latino, and the school is designated a Hispanic Serving Institution, a federal program that allows colleges to apply for grants if at least 25% of their students identify as Hispanic.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“I’ve been able to meet great mentors who also fit that description of being first generation, and far beyond being able to see myself through them, they want to see people like myself succeed,” Perez Rojas said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are 171 Hispanic-Serving Institutions in California — the most of any state — and they have long relied on federal funding to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12057033/california-faces-steepest-cuts-as-trump-ends-diversity-grants-how-one-college-is-faring\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">pay for programs, staff, and support services\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. 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In June, the state of Tennessee and Students for Fair Admissions,\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a nonprofit legal advocacy organization founded by conservative activist Edward Blum for the purpose of challenging affirmative action admissions policies at schools, filed\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.tn.gov/attorneygeneral/news/2025/6/11/pr25-33.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> a federal lawsuit\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> claiming HSI funding is unconstitutional. 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Community colleges in the state estimate they\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/updates/california-community-colleges-to-lose-20-million-next-year-amid-hispanic-serving-institution-grant-cuts\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> will lose at least $20 million this year.\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“The mission of our colleges is to ensure that all students, regardless of background, have the opportunity to succeed,” California Community Colleges Chancellor Sonya Christian said in a statement after the Education Department pulled HSI funding. “We are deeply troubled that this action could limit access to resources that support their educational advancement and economic mobility.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">HSI funds have helped pay for high school students to take community college classes, cover students’ living expenses and provide mentorship — efforts shown to\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/65399/how-some-colleges-are-working-to-engage-and-better-recruit-latino-students\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> increase graduation rates\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and long-term socioeconomic mobility for Latinos, Garcia said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058487\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1333px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058487\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20250930_HISPANICSERVINGINSTITUTIONS_GC-7-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1333\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20250930_HISPANICSERVINGINSTITUTIONS_GC-7-KQED.jpg 1333w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20250930_HISPANICSERVINGINSTITUTIONS_GC-7-KQED-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20250930_HISPANICSERVINGINSTITUTIONS_GC-7-KQED-1024x1536.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1333px) 100vw, 1333px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vanessa Perez Rojas, a fourth-year student, prays in the chapel at Saint Mary’s College of California in Moraga on Sept. 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At Saint Mary’s, the school will not see an immediate financial hit because it doesn’t currently have active HSI grants, but participation in the program signals a commitment to serving Latino students, Provost Carol Ann Gittens said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“What that says to students and families is that if you come to Saint Mary’s College, you’re going to be supported,” Roger Thompson, president of Saint Mary’s, told KQED. “Latino students are the fastest growing demographic in the state and the country, but it’s also one of the least likely to go to college. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When Vanessa Perez Rojas began her first year at Saint Mary’s College in Moraga, she recalled feeling a bit lost and out of place. Growing up in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> with parents who migrated from Mexico and El Salvador, she said she wasn’t exposed to much information about college.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“I had no idea how to even declare a major. I didn’t really even know where to look,” said the 21-year-old speaking from campus, where graduation celebrations often include mariachi bands and taco bars.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Perez Rojas knew of Saint Mary’s because her older brother had attended — which gave her the confidence that she could find support as a first-generation college student. More than one-third of St. Mary’s students are Latino, and the school is designated a Hispanic Serving Institution, a federal program that allows colleges to apply for grants if at least 25% of their students identify as Hispanic.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“I’ve been able to meet great mentors who also fit that description of being first generation, and far beyond being able to see myself through them, they want to see people like myself succeed,” Perez Rojas said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are 171 Hispanic-Serving Institutions in California — the most of any state — and they have long relied on federal funding to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12057033/california-faces-steepest-cuts-as-trump-ends-diversity-grants-how-one-college-is-faring\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">pay for programs, staff, and support services\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Now, those schools are worried about \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the program’s future. Last month, the U.S. Department of Education pulled $350 million that had been allocated to HSIs. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058488\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058488\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20250930_HISPANICSERVINGINSTITUTIONS_GC-9-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20250930_HISPANICSERVINGINSTITUTIONS_GC-9-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20250930_HISPANICSERVINGINSTITUTIONS_GC-9-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20250930_HISPANICSERVINGINSTITUTIONS_GC-9-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The chapel at Saint Mary’s College of California in Moraga on Sept. 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a statement, Secretary of Education Linda McMahon \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-education-ends-funding-racially-discriminatory-discretionary-grant-programs-minority-serving-institutions\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">said\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the HSI program amounts to “discrimination based upon race or ethnicity,” as the Trump administration scales back initiatives related to diversity, equity and inclusion. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“The Department will no longer award Minority-Serving Institution grants that discriminate by restricting eligibility to institutions that meet government-mandated racial quotas,” McMahon said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The program’s existence was already under threat. In June, the state of Tennessee and Students for Fair Admissions,\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a nonprofit legal advocacy organization founded by conservative activist Edward Blum for the purpose of challenging affirmative action admissions policies at schools, filed\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.tn.gov/attorneygeneral/news/2025/6/11/pr25-33.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> a federal lawsuit\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> claiming HSI funding is unconstitutional. The Trump administration declined to contest the case.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The idea that the program is discriminatory is misleading, said Gina Ann Garcia, a professor in the UC Berkeley School of Education who studies HSIs and hosts a podcast about them. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“A lot of campuses do benefit, including our community college system in California, and have had a good success rate of getting those HSI grants to advance programs that we know are serving students,” Garcia said. “It would be detrimental to California if we no longer have access to those funds.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">HSIs were created in the 1990s to ensure that colleges enrolling large numbers of Latino students received adequate funding to help those students graduate. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058491\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058491\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20250930_HISPANICSERVINGINSTITUTIONS_GC-11-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20250930_HISPANICSERVINGINSTITUTIONS_GC-11-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20250930_HISPANICSERVINGINSTITUTIONS_GC-11-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20250930_HISPANICSERVINGINSTITUTIONS_GC-11-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A poster reading “Hispanic Culture and Heritage” is displayed in the Intercultural Center at Saint Mary’s College of California in Moraga on Sept. 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In California, more than 90% of community colleges, and 21 out of 22 California State Universities and seven of nine University of California undergraduate campuses qualify as HSIs. Community colleges in the state estimate they\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/updates/california-community-colleges-to-lose-20-million-next-year-amid-hispanic-serving-institution-grant-cuts\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> will lose at least $20 million this year.\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“The mission of our colleges is to ensure that all students, regardless of background, have the opportunity to succeed,” California Community Colleges Chancellor Sonya Christian said in a statement after the Education Department pulled HSI funding. “We are deeply troubled that this action could limit access to resources that support their educational advancement and economic mobility.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">HSI funds have helped pay for high school students to take community college classes, cover students’ living expenses and provide mentorship — efforts shown to\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/65399/how-some-colleges-are-working-to-engage-and-better-recruit-latino-students\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> increase graduation rates\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and long-term socioeconomic mobility for Latinos, Garcia said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058487\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1333px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058487\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20250930_HISPANICSERVINGINSTITUTIONS_GC-7-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1333\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20250930_HISPANICSERVINGINSTITUTIONS_GC-7-KQED.jpg 1333w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20250930_HISPANICSERVINGINSTITUTIONS_GC-7-KQED-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20250930_HISPANICSERVINGINSTITUTIONS_GC-7-KQED-1024x1536.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1333px) 100vw, 1333px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vanessa Perez Rojas, a fourth-year student, prays in the chapel at Saint Mary’s College of California in Moraga on Sept. 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At Saint Mary’s, the school will not see an immediate financial hit because it doesn’t currently have active HSI grants, but participation in the program signals a commitment to serving Latino students, Provost Carol Ann Gittens said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“What that says to students and families is that if you come to Saint Mary’s College, you’re going to be supported,” Roger Thompson, president of Saint Mary’s, told KQED. “Latino students are the fastest growing demographic in the state and the country, but it’s also one of the least likely to go to college. We are leaning in in every way possible to try to build and increase our Hispanic student population.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Perez Rojas is on track to graduate next spring with a degree in business administration. Her path wasn’t always certain. In 2020, when the pandemic hit, she had to transfer after her high school closed. Her new school offered little college guidance, so she relied on her brother for help.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At Saint Mary’s, admissions and financial aid counselors met with her parents in person — in Spanish. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“Just sitting down and explaining things really made a difference,” Perez Rojas said. “I don’t think I would be in college if that wasn’t the case.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A combination of financial aid and scholarships, including one for students with family alumni, made her education possible.\u003c/span>\u003cb> \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But once she arrived on campus, Perez Rojas said she still struggled to adapt. 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"content": "\u003cp>The videos have become almost routine: men in dark clothing and vests, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12044570/california-bill-would-prohibit-ice-officers-from-wearing-masks-in-the-state\">often wearing masks\u003c/a>, wrestling people to the ground and whisking them away in unmarked vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It could look like a kidnapping or a scene from a movie, but they are American immigration officers, and some of the people being swept up are U.S. citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s happening in the United States of America. Masked men jumping out of unmarked cars, people disappearing, no due process, no oversight, zero accountability,” California Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC71635to-I\">said recently on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re losing confidence and trust in law enforcement,” he said, citing incidents where federal officers \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/29/immigration-agents-los-angeles-detention-damages-claim\">pointed guns\u003c/a> at a teenager. “We had a 15-year-old disabled kid in Los Angeles who was waiting for his sister to come out of high school and they pulled out guns on this kid. They pulled out guns and handcuffed this young child.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the scenes, Newsom signed a bill last month barring local and federal law enforcement from wearing masks while on duty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046313\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046313\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GavinNewsomGetty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GavinNewsomGetty2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GavinNewsomGetty2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GavinNewsomGetty2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks after U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer granted an emergency temporary restraining order to stop President Trump’s deployment of the California National Guard, on Thursday, June 12, 2025, at the California State Supreme Court building in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Santiago Mejia/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The new law quickly drew fire from federal officials. Acting U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli instructed federal officers to \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/USAttyEssayli/status/1971625330722119843\">disregard\u003c/a> what he called a dangerous and unconstitutional law. In a recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEbtGwPLi6E\">interview\u003c/a> on KCRA, Essayli accused California officials of passing the law because they “don’t want our immigration laws being enforced.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So they’re dehumanizing, and they’re delegitimizing the federal government. They call ICE agents kidnappers. They’re saying they’re making people disappear,” he said. “People are being arrested in compliance with federal law and the Constitution. … And all they’re doing with this bill and this rhetoric is putting the lives of our agents in danger.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>California’s latest immigration battle\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The masking bill is the latest skirmish in an ongoing battle between California and the Trump administration over how federal law enforcement agencies operate in the state — a fight likely headed to court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s already a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12054322/judge-rules-trump-violated-law-by-sending-troops-to-los-angeles\">pending federal lawsuit\u003c/a> over President Donald Trump’s decision to seize control of the California National Guard earlier this summer and deploy guard troops and U.S. Marines to assist in immigration raids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058608\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12058608 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/GettyImages-2237687579-scaled-e1759877176351.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Federal agents confront protesters outside of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building on Sept. 28, 2025, in Portland, Oregon. In a Truth Social post on Sept. 27, President Donald Trump authorized the deployment of military troops to “protect war-ravaged Portland, and any of our ICE Facilities under siege from attack by Antifa, and other domestic terrorists.” \u003ccite>(Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last weekend, California also joined a lawsuit in Oregon challenging the president’s move to send National Guard troops into Portland. And \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031821/legal-showdown-over-sanctuary-laws-tests-federal-vs-state-power-again\">legal battles over the state’s sanctuary laws\u003c/a>, which prohibit state and local police from assisting in immigration enforcement, date back to Trump’s first term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Essayli and other federal prosecutors have also \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-07-23/protester-charges-essayli\">aggressively pursued criminal charges\u003c/a> against people who come into contact with federal officers, though many cases have been dismissed or reduced after grand juries \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/06/us/trump-dc-national-guard-grand-juries-crime.html\">declined to hand down indictments\u003c/a>. In some cases, evidence \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/28/doj-la-protesters-false-claims\">contradicted\u003c/a> Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Department of Homeland Security agents’ claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics say the aggressive tactics and lack of identification by immigration officers raise questions about both the rights of Americans and the accountability of federal law enforcement officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12000985\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12000985 size-full\" style=\"font-weight: bold;background-color: transparent;color: #767676\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat, wrote the No Secret Police Act (SB 627), barring law enforcement from wearing masks. \u003ccite>(Michelle Gachet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco state Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat, wrote the bill barring law enforcement from wearing masks. He said ICE’s “authoritarian tactics” are creating a combustible situation that makes law enforcement less safe by eroding trust with the public and opening the door to people \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/04/25/ice-agent-impersonate-kidnapping-florida-woman/83271541007/\">impersonating law enforcement\u003c/a>. It also makes it nearly impossible for Americans to know whether the people detaining them are actually law enforcement, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of San José also passed a policy last week aimed at forcing federal immigration agents to unmask and identify themselves when they are working in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This entire ICE operation, essentially secret police, is terrifying and scary. Having ICE agents, and lord knows who else, vigilantes, bounty hunters, having them patrolling, roving around neighborhoods and grabbing people out of bus stops, out of their front yards, out their workplaces — it’s absolutely terrifying,” Wiener said. “You can’t even see the face of the person you’re dealing with. You don’t know who you’re interacting with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘I’m a citizen. I am not doing anything wrong’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>U.S. citizens, including George Retes, are among those being caught up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Retes, a 25-year-old Army veteran and security guard, was arrested in July during a raid on the Ventura County cannabis farm where he works as a security guard. He was held for three days before being released without charges. After he wrote an \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/ice-racial-profiling-21045429.php\">op-ed\u003c/a> about his experience, DHS accused him of assault on the social media platform \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/DHSgov/status/1968378912326697368\">X\u003c/a>. No charges have been filed, according to his lawyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Retes said he tried to comply with orders as he approached the farm in his vehicle, but federal agents gave him contradictory commands before using tear gas, smashing his car window, pepper-spraying his face, pulling him out of the car and pinning him to the ground with their knees. He was transferred to a Los Angeles County facility and released without explanation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12059042\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12059042\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CamarilloCannabisFarmICEGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1307\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CamarilloCannabisFarmICEGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CamarilloCannabisFarmICEGetty-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CamarilloCannabisFarmICEGetty-1536x1004.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Federal agents block a field and road during an ICE raid at a nearby licensed cannabis farm on July 10, 2025, near Camarillo, California. \u003ccite>(Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Retes has filed a claim alleging unconstitutional detention — the precursor to a lawsuit — but his lawyers have been unable to identify the officers involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m just trying to get to work. I’m a citizen. I am not doing anything wrong,” he said. “I thought everything was going to be OK.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Retes missed his daughter’s third birthday during his detention, and was suspended from work for three weeks until he could prove he wasn’t charged with a crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Institute for Justice attorney Anya Bidwell, who represents Retes, alleged that his arrest and detention — and the threat of assault charges now being leveled at him — illustrate how ICE officers are comfortable acting with impunity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047761\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12047761\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/AP25192084195592-scaled-e1759878934178.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A demonstrator stands in front of a military vehicle approaching a federal immigration agents raid in the agriculture area of Camarillo, California, on July 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Michael Owen Baker/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bidwell said \u003ca href=\"https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-8/chapter-I/subchapter-B/part-287/section-287.8#p-287.8%28c%29\">federal regulations\u003c/a> already require immigration officers to identify themselves when making arrests — a point noted in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kaine.senate.gov/press-releases/warner-kaine-push-ice-to-require-agents-identify-themselves-limit-use-of-masks-and-face-coverings-during-enforcement-operations\">a letter earlier this year\u003c/a> from Virginia Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine, who demanded ICE agents unmask and identify themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This administration is kind of just exploiting the cracks that we have in the system,” Bidwell said. “Federal officials have such a high degree of immunity that they essentially don’t even care if they break the law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re not following their own regulations,” she added. “But again, it doesn’t matter that they’re not following their own regulations, at least in their mind, because like, go ahead, sue me. What are you going to do?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Local police caught in the middle\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>By contrast, local and state police in California are legally required to identify themselves in most cases, said Brian Marvel, president of the Peace Officers Research Association of California, or PORAC. The group represents 87,000 rank-and-file police officers in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to have either a badge or a name or identification indicating that you’re a peace officer in the state of California,” Marvel said, adding that after someone is arrested,” their name, their ID number and the agency they work for will be all available to that individual.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055169\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055169\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/ICECMGETTY.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/ICECMGETTY.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/ICECMGETTY-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/ICECMGETTY-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A person is detained as clashes break out after U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers attempted to raid a store in Bell, just south of Los Angeles, on June 20, 2025. \u003ccite>(Etienne Laurent/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>PORAC opposed the masking bill, arguing that it unfairly entangles local police in a broader political fight that’s really about federal authorities. Marvel said no California agency uses masks to conceal identity, but the law could expose officers to lawsuits even if they cover their faces for legitimate reasons, like cold weather or to protect their health and safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal officials have made clear they will not comply. Before Newsom signed the bill, Department of Homeland Security officials called on the governor to veto it. In \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/09/16/dhs-calls-governor-newsom-veto-californias-no-secret-police-act\">a statement\u003c/a>, DHS insisted federal agents do identify themselves but wear masks to prevent doxing and retaliation from “highly sophisticated gangs like Tren de Aragua and MS-13, criminal rings, murderers, and rapists.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin went on to blame Wiener for violence against ICE agents, saying that his legislation “and rhetoric comparing them to ‘secret police’ — likening them to the Gestapo — is despicable.”[aside postID=news_12058586 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/IMG_1173-2000x1500.jpg']Wiener, who has himself been frequently targeted and doxed, said McLaughlin’s comments are meant to silence critics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“None of us want anyone to be doxed,” he said. “Being a law enforcement officer has certain risks. Just like being an elected official has certain risks … Anyone who says, ‘I can only be a law enforcement officer on patrol if I wear a ski mask,’ I think that person needs to do some introspection and decide if law enforcement is really the right calling for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Wiener and others acknowledged that the public runs the risk of criminal charges if they don’t comply with a federal agent. Marvel, from PORAC, recommended compliance even if an agent refuses to show identification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here in America, the likelihood of that actually being a legitimate kidnapping is pretty slight. So I would assume that they are legitimate law enforcement officers,” he said. “Compliance is the best route because it’s less likely to escalate a situation, less likely to turn into a violent altercation or an officer-involved shooting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky said police have a clear obligation to identify themselves when arresting someone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If law enforcement personnel take somebody and arrest them, law enforcement personnel need to let them know that they have been arrested,” he said. “It’s the only way for somebody to know that they haven’t been kidnapped. And so when ICE agents in masks without identification are taking people into custody, that shouldn’t be deemed a lawful arrest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Chemerinsky acknowledged the only recourse is a lawsuit or asking a judge to dismiss charges. Neither, he said, is a sure bet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re losing confidence and trust in law enforcement,” he said, citing incidents where federal officers \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/29/immigration-agents-los-angeles-detention-damages-claim\">pointed guns\u003c/a> at a teenager. “We had a 15-year-old disabled kid in Los Angeles who was waiting for his sister to come out of high school and they pulled out guns on this kid. They pulled out guns and handcuffed this young child.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the scenes, Newsom signed a bill last month barring local and federal law enforcement from wearing masks while on duty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046313\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046313\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GavinNewsomGetty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GavinNewsomGetty2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GavinNewsomGetty2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GavinNewsomGetty2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks after U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer granted an emergency temporary restraining order to stop President Trump’s deployment of the California National Guard, on Thursday, June 12, 2025, at the California State Supreme Court building in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Santiago Mejia/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The new law quickly drew fire from federal officials. Acting U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli instructed federal officers to \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/USAttyEssayli/status/1971625330722119843\">disregard\u003c/a> what he called a dangerous and unconstitutional law. In a recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEbtGwPLi6E\">interview\u003c/a> on KCRA, Essayli accused California officials of passing the law because they “don’t want our immigration laws being enforced.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So they’re dehumanizing, and they’re delegitimizing the federal government. They call ICE agents kidnappers. They’re saying they’re making people disappear,” he said. “People are being arrested in compliance with federal law and the Constitution. … And all they’re doing with this bill and this rhetoric is putting the lives of our agents in danger.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>California’s latest immigration battle\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The masking bill is the latest skirmish in an ongoing battle between California and the Trump administration over how federal law enforcement agencies operate in the state — a fight likely headed to court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s already a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12054322/judge-rules-trump-violated-law-by-sending-troops-to-los-angeles\">pending federal lawsuit\u003c/a> over President Donald Trump’s decision to seize control of the California National Guard earlier this summer and deploy guard troops and U.S. Marines to assist in immigration raids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058608\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12058608 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/GettyImages-2237687579-scaled-e1759877176351.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Federal agents confront protesters outside of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building on Sept. 28, 2025, in Portland, Oregon. In a Truth Social post on Sept. 27, President Donald Trump authorized the deployment of military troops to “protect war-ravaged Portland, and any of our ICE Facilities under siege from attack by Antifa, and other domestic terrorists.” \u003ccite>(Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last weekend, California also joined a lawsuit in Oregon challenging the president’s move to send National Guard troops into Portland. And \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031821/legal-showdown-over-sanctuary-laws-tests-federal-vs-state-power-again\">legal battles over the state’s sanctuary laws\u003c/a>, which prohibit state and local police from assisting in immigration enforcement, date back to Trump’s first term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Essayli and other federal prosecutors have also \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-07-23/protester-charges-essayli\">aggressively pursued criminal charges\u003c/a> against people who come into contact with federal officers, though many cases have been dismissed or reduced after grand juries \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/06/us/trump-dc-national-guard-grand-juries-crime.html\">declined to hand down indictments\u003c/a>. In some cases, evidence \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/28/doj-la-protesters-false-claims\">contradicted\u003c/a> Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Department of Homeland Security agents’ claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics say the aggressive tactics and lack of identification by immigration officers raise questions about both the rights of Americans and the accountability of federal law enforcement officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12000985\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12000985 size-full\" style=\"font-weight: bold;background-color: transparent;color: #767676\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat, wrote the No Secret Police Act (SB 627), barring law enforcement from wearing masks. \u003ccite>(Michelle Gachet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco state Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat, wrote the bill barring law enforcement from wearing masks. He said ICE’s “authoritarian tactics” are creating a combustible situation that makes law enforcement less safe by eroding trust with the public and opening the door to people \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/04/25/ice-agent-impersonate-kidnapping-florida-woman/83271541007/\">impersonating law enforcement\u003c/a>. It also makes it nearly impossible for Americans to know whether the people detaining them are actually law enforcement, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of San José also passed a policy last week aimed at forcing federal immigration agents to unmask and identify themselves when they are working in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This entire ICE operation, essentially secret police, is terrifying and scary. Having ICE agents, and lord knows who else, vigilantes, bounty hunters, having them patrolling, roving around neighborhoods and grabbing people out of bus stops, out of their front yards, out their workplaces — it’s absolutely terrifying,” Wiener said. “You can’t even see the face of the person you’re dealing with. You don’t know who you’re interacting with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘I’m a citizen. I am not doing anything wrong’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>U.S. citizens, including George Retes, are among those being caught up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Retes, a 25-year-old Army veteran and security guard, was arrested in July during a raid on the Ventura County cannabis farm where he works as a security guard. He was held for three days before being released without charges. After he wrote an \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/ice-racial-profiling-21045429.php\">op-ed\u003c/a> about his experience, DHS accused him of assault on the social media platform \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/DHSgov/status/1968378912326697368\">X\u003c/a>. No charges have been filed, according to his lawyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Retes said he tried to comply with orders as he approached the farm in his vehicle, but federal agents gave him contradictory commands before using tear gas, smashing his car window, pepper-spraying his face, pulling him out of the car and pinning him to the ground with their knees. He was transferred to a Los Angeles County facility and released without explanation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12059042\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12059042\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CamarilloCannabisFarmICEGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1307\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CamarilloCannabisFarmICEGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CamarilloCannabisFarmICEGetty-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CamarilloCannabisFarmICEGetty-1536x1004.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Federal agents block a field and road during an ICE raid at a nearby licensed cannabis farm on July 10, 2025, near Camarillo, California. \u003ccite>(Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Retes has filed a claim alleging unconstitutional detention — the precursor to a lawsuit — but his lawyers have been unable to identify the officers involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m just trying to get to work. I’m a citizen. I am not doing anything wrong,” he said. “I thought everything was going to be OK.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Retes missed his daughter’s third birthday during his detention, and was suspended from work for three weeks until he could prove he wasn’t charged with a crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Institute for Justice attorney Anya Bidwell, who represents Retes, alleged that his arrest and detention — and the threat of assault charges now being leveled at him — illustrate how ICE officers are comfortable acting with impunity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047761\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12047761\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/AP25192084195592-scaled-e1759878934178.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A demonstrator stands in front of a military vehicle approaching a federal immigration agents raid in the agriculture area of Camarillo, California, on July 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Michael Owen Baker/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bidwell said \u003ca href=\"https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-8/chapter-I/subchapter-B/part-287/section-287.8#p-287.8%28c%29\">federal regulations\u003c/a> already require immigration officers to identify themselves when making arrests — a point noted in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kaine.senate.gov/press-releases/warner-kaine-push-ice-to-require-agents-identify-themselves-limit-use-of-masks-and-face-coverings-during-enforcement-operations\">a letter earlier this year\u003c/a> from Virginia Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine, who demanded ICE agents unmask and identify themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This administration is kind of just exploiting the cracks that we have in the system,” Bidwell said. “Federal officials have such a high degree of immunity that they essentially don’t even care if they break the law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re not following their own regulations,” she added. “But again, it doesn’t matter that they’re not following their own regulations, at least in their mind, because like, go ahead, sue me. What are you going to do?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Local police caught in the middle\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>By contrast, local and state police in California are legally required to identify themselves in most cases, said Brian Marvel, president of the Peace Officers Research Association of California, or PORAC. 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Marvel said no California agency uses masks to conceal identity, but the law could expose officers to lawsuits even if they cover their faces for legitimate reasons, like cold weather or to protect their health and safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal officials have made clear they will not comply. Before Newsom signed the bill, Department of Homeland Security officials called on the governor to veto it. 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"content": "\u003cp>The San José City Council advanced a policy that would make it unlawful for federal immigration officers to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12054798/san-jose-joins-the-growing-call-to-unmask-ice-agents\">conceal their identities while working in the city\u003c/a>, moving toward enacting it as law and teeing up a potential legal showdown with the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a unanimous vote on Tuesday, the council directed the city attorney to draft an ordinance that would bar all law enforcement officers, including federal agents, from “wearing any mask or personal disguise” while on duty within San José’s borders, with limited exceptions. Mayor Matt Mahan was absent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ordinance would also require that all law enforcement officers “wear visible identification and clear agency affiliation while interacting with the public” in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city attorney is expected to return to the council with the draft within 60 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These protections are not just about procedure. They are about dignity, fairness and public trust,” District 5 Councilmember Peter Ortiz, who has spearheaded the proposal since introducing it earlier this month, said during the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057528\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250924-SJICE-JG-3_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057528\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250924-SJICE-JG-3_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250924-SJICE-JG-3_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250924-SJICE-JG-3_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250924-SJICE-JG-3_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San José District 5 City Councilmember Peter Ortiz speaks during a Sept. 24, 2025, press conference about an immigration arrest at a local nonprofit.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The vote comes amid months of escalating immigration enforcement tactics in cities around the nation, with federal agents often making arrests while wearing plain clothing or generic uniforms with the word “police” printed on them, without clear indication of their agency affiliation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council’s full-throated support of the proposed policy brings San José in league with the state legislature, which passed SB 627, called the “No Secret Police Act,” from Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, earlier this month. Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/SB-627-Signing-Message.pdf\">signed\u003c/a> the bill into law on Sept. 20, though he asked lawmakers to bring back follow-up legislation next year to further clarify the scope of the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of other governments across cities, counties and states are pushing similar laws, including in Los Angeles, New York and Pennsylvania. However, it remains unclear whether any state or local law could — or would — compel federal officers to change their tactics to comply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By doing this, we put ourselves on record as standing with other agencies and the state of California that are calling for federal agents to display visible identification and the prohibition of the use of face coverings unless necessary,” Ortiz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even as the authority of such laws is to be determined, several council members said at the meeting, it’s important to back the proposal to address the growing distress in a city where roughly 40% of residents are foreign-born, as the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement campaign continues.[aside postID=news_12057384 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250905-ADOPTACORNER_00805_TV-KQED.jpg']“During a time where our families continue to live in fear, we need to do everything in our power to protect our community, not just folks who are citizens or folks who have their immigration papers,” District 8 Councilmember Domingo Candelas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you have your papers or your legal ability to be here, but you speak with an accent, you may be targeted,” he said. “We’re showing our neighbors, our community members, where we as leaders stand with what’s going on at the federal level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similar to the state bill, San José’s law would include exemptions for officers for health and safety reasons, “including the use of gas masks, fire/smoke protection masks, or medical grade masks, when necessary,” according to city staff reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials and political analysts have suggested the laws are likely to end up the subject of a court fight against the Trump administration, as have many other challenges President Donald Trump has made to states’ rights and the authority of governors or mayors, such as when he sent Marines into Southern California and National Guard troops into other cities like Portland, Oregon and Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So this, too, will trickle up the judicial system and at some point get some sort of clarity by the Supreme Court,” Larry Gerston, a professor emeritus of political science at San José State University, told KQED. “In the meantime, the states and local governments are fighting tooth and nail to make their case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gerston said it could be tough for states and cities that are fighting to win a case on the issue of how police should identify themselves, if a case were to make it to the highest court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that the Supreme Court has been extremely generous with President Trump in terms of allowing him and, by extension, agencies such as ICE to use their powers in ways that other courts would not have allowed,” Gerston said.[aside postID=news_12057368 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS24077_Courthouse-closeup-qut-1180x664.jpg']The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin, in a statement earlier this month, called California’s bill “despicable,” and condemned the term secret police, which she said wrongfully likened federal agents to the Gestapo of Nazi Germany.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said federal officers are facing “a 1000% increase” in assaults against them, and said they use masks to “protect themselves from being doxed and targeted by known and suspected terrorist sympathizers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the meeting on Tuesday, Ortiz invoked an incident last week at ConXión to Community, a community resource hub and day laborer center in San José’s Little Saigon neighborhood, where a man was taken out of the building by a federal immigration officer in plain clothes before \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12057384/south-bay-day-laborer-center-staff-devastated-over-immigration-arrest\">being arrested\u003c/a>, causing panic among staff and other clients of the center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They didn’t know who these individuals were or whether they had any authority to be there. That moment of confusion and fear illustrates exactly why this ordinance is necessary,” Ortiz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Misrayn Mendoza, the organizing manager for community nonprofit Amigos de Guadalupe, told the council he’s proud of the work the council is doing, but they need to step up further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our people, especially our Mexican people, are getting wiped out. 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Nobody wanted it,” the North Bay Democrat said. “The base was against it, the community was against it, two members of Congress from there were against it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The push to build a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center on the air base \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12037889/trump-administration-considers-immigration-detention-bay-area-military-base-records-show\">came to light\u003c/a> in April through internal federal emails obtained by KQED. The emails showed significant coordination among Department of Defense and Homeland Security officials to expedite the plans and tee them up for approval by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan came as a shock to Thompson and Rep. John Garamendi, another Democrat whose district includes the base. 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Jay Johnson, reported that there had been talks about establishing an ICE facility on the base, but he said that plan had been taken off the table, at least for the time being, according to Garamendi staff who attended the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, on Aug. 6, the congressmen received an official reply from Assistant Secretary of Defense M. Roosevelt Ditlevson that read, in part: “While DoD remains committed to supporting the Department of Homeland Security within the framework of applicable legal authorities and through approved requests for assistance, Travis AFB will not be designated for migrant detention-related activities at this time.”[aside postID=news_12039137 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/TravisAirForceBaseGetty2-1020x680.jpg']Garamendi and Thompson spoke about the shift in plans to KQED this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The argument that Mike Thompson and I made carried the day. Travis is a critical element in our national security,” Garamendi said. “The role that Travis has as an international distribution center for military supplies, equipment, and personnel is critical to everything the military must do. And a detention facility would degrade that mission.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garamendi and Thompson called it a win but said they would remain vigilant, as defense officials have approved immigration jails on military bases in other states, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/07/21/nx-s1-5475109/immigrant-detention-military-bases\">including New Jersey and Indiana\u003c/a> and a 5,000-bed installation \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/detain/detention-facilities/dod-detention-facility-fort-bliss\">at Fort Bliss\u003c/a> in El Paso, Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With this administration, you don’t really have a clear understanding of what is going to change from one moment to the next,” Thompson said. “So we’re watching it. 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"content": "\u003cp>Halfway through the first year of\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\"> President Donald Trump’s second administration\u003c/a>, an expansion in operations by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents has led to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/27/us/ice-arrests-trump.html?smid=url-share&rsrc=deeplink#ice_arrests_California\">a 123% increase\u003c/a> from 2024 in immigrant arrests in California alone. According to the same June numbers from a UC Berkeley law professor’s study called the \u003ca href=\"https://deportationdata.org/index.html\">Deportation Data Project, \u003c/a>there have been over 94,000 arrests nationwide since the inauguration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And for many immigrants, anxiety about in-person and online surveillance by ICE will have been stoked by several new developments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2025/09/08/sfpd-flock-alpr-ice-data-sharing/\">\u003cem>SF Standard\u003c/em> investigation\u003c/a> found that in San Francisco, law enforcement allowed out-of-state police officers to search through the city’s license-plate reader data on behalf of ICE — a move that is likely illegal. And \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/02/trump-immigration-ice-israeli-spyware\">\u003cem>The Guardian\u003c/em> reported \u003c/a>that ICE also now has access to tools made by Paragon Solutions: an Israeli developer of spyware which can hack into any mobile phone — including encrypted apps — and look at messages, photos and location data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Extremely troubling’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Paragon’s software, called Graphite, uses a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/ronanfarrow/status/1963734651408728092?s=46&t=7BBzFwo6eYLzJIVfAlumEQ\">“zero clicks exploit”\u003c/a> — meaning that someone could use Graphite to access another person’s phone simply by sending it a message, even if that person does not click or download anything contained within.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s an incredibly powerful tool,” said Turner Willman, a Bay Area resident who leads digital security workshops for the national progressive Asian American organization \u003ca href=\"https://www.18millionrising.org/\">18 Million Rising\u003c/a>. “In the hands of ICE, I have serious concerns about what the impacts would be on not only immigrants but advocates for immigrant rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/ronanfarrow/status/1963734651408728092?s=46&t=7BBzFwo6eYLzJIVfAlumEQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Biden administration put ICE’s original contract with Paragon — reported to be worth $2 million according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/02/trump-immigration-ice-israeli-spyware?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other\">\u003cem>The Guardian\u003c/em> —\u003c/a> under review, to make sure the partnership complied with an executive order that essentially prevents government agencies from using spyware that infringes on \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/03/30/2023-06730/prohibition-on-use-by-the-united-states-government-of-commercial-spyware-that-poses-risks-to\">“forms of human rights abuses or suppression of civil liberties.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration lifted that pause, in a move that the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Cooper Quintin described as \u003ca href=\"https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/eff-statement-ice-use-paragon-solutions-malware\">“extremely troubling”\u003c/a> — citing \u003ca href=\"https://citizenlab.ca/2025/06/first-forensic-confirmation-of-paragons-ios-mercenary-spyware-finds-journalists-targeted/\">research\u003c/a> that found that the hacking software was used in Italy to spy on journalists and humanitarian workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE’s access to the software — and to San Francisco’s license plate data — comes at a time when the agency’s budget has \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/press-release/congress-approves-unprecedented-funding-mass-detention-deportation-2025/\">expanded significantly\u003c/a>, as part of the Trump administration’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/immigration\">immigration enforcement agenda\u003c/a>. KQED spoke to Quintin and other Bay Area technologists focused on public privacy about what people, especially immigrants, should know about the access ICE potentially has to your data.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What \u003cem>are \u003c/em>the digital tools ICE is using?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As you might expect, your online activity generates multiple sources of information that immigration officials can use, like social media accounts, which the Trump administration now requires that \u003ca href=\"https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2025/06/announcement-of-expanded-screening-and-vetting-for-visa-applicants\">people seeking a U.S. visa make public.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not all of the data ICE uses is collected through your phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Those license plate readers can track your movements\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cities around the Bay Area, including San Francisco and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983813/san-jose-adding-hundreds-of-license-plate-readers-amid-privacy-and-efficacy-concerns\">San José\u003c/a>, have installed numerous automated license plate readers: devices that are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989977/san-franciscos-new-license-plate-readers-are-leading-to-arrests-and-concerns-about-privacy\">placed at traffic intersections\u003c/a>, which take pictures of every passing car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, “every single entrance and exit in the city of Piedmont” has an automated license plate reader, said Sam Smith, a Bay Area co-founder of \u003ca href=\"https://convocation.design/\">Convocation Research and Design\u003c/a>, a think-tank that focuses on cybersecurity and human rights. This means, Smith said, that “no one can come or go in a car in Piedmont without it being logged.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11984097\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11984097\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/SAN-JOSE-LICENSE-PLATE-READERS-11-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A man with a fluorescent yellow coat holds a black machine.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/SAN-JOSE-LICENSE-PLATE-READERS-11-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/SAN-JOSE-LICENSE-PLATE-READERS-11-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/SAN-JOSE-LICENSE-PLATE-READERS-11-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/SAN-JOSE-LICENSE-PLATE-READERS-11-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/SAN-JOSE-LICENSE-PLATE-READERS-11-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/SAN-JOSE-LICENSE-PLATE-READERS-11-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Flock Safety worker holds up a new Automated License Plate Reader that was being installed in East San José on Tuesday, April 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Afterwards, the license plate numbers are run against a database of reported stolen vehicles or vehicles linked to suspected crimes. But using a license plate reader is also a simple way to establish someone’s patterns, like where they live, where they go to work and where they like to eat, Quintin said. This could make it easier to predict where someone will be at a certain time of the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.flocksafety.com/\">Flock\u003c/a>, a major license plate reader software used in local government, \u003ca href=\"https://www.404media.co/ice-taps-into-nationwide-ai-enabled-camera-network-data-shows/\">does not\u003c/a> have a formal contract with ICE. However, \u003ca href=\"https://www.404media.co/ice-taps-into-nationwide-ai-enabled-camera-network-data-shows/\">a May investigation\u003c/a> by tech outlet 404 Media found instances where local law enforcement in places like \u003ca href=\"https://www.404media.co/flock-removes-states-from-national-lookup-tool-after-ice-and-abortion-searches-revealed/\">Illinois\u003c/a> had looked up individuals in the company’s automated license plate reader system — to then pass on to ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite California law barring local law enforcement from cooperating with ICE investigations except in cases of serious crimes, CalMatters reported that local authorities in Southern California \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2025/06/california-police-sharing-license-plate-reader-data/\">shared license plate information\u003c/a> with ICE more than 100 times. According to the \u003cem>SF Standard\u003c/em>, San Francisco officers have allowed out-of-state law enforcement to run more than 1.6 million searches of the city’s license plate reader database — and at least 19 of those searches were related to ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flock \u003ca href=\"https://www.flocksafety.com/blog/statement-network-sharing-use-cases-federal-cooperation?ref=404media.co\">disabled their national search tool\u003c/a>, with the CEO Garrett Langley noting that “Some states, like California, do not allow any sharing across state borders,” and that for those states, Flock has disabled National Lookup “to make compliance easier.” The company is also currently \u003ca href=\"https://abc7.com/post/flock-safety-license-plate-camera-company-halts-cooperation-federal-agencies-among-investigation-concerns-including-il/17653876/\">facing scrutiny\u003c/a> from Illinois’ state attorney general and has paused its cooperation with federal agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Partnerships with federal agencies that already hold your data\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, the Trump administration took steps to remove what it calls “unnecessary barriers” to \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/stopping-waste-fraud-and-abuse-by-eliminating-information-silos/\">inter-agency data sharing\u003c/a> and expand the use of \u003ca href=\"https://one.npr.org/?sharedMediaId=nx-s1-5372776:nx-s1-5443914-1\">Palantir\u003c/a>, a data analysis technology company, across the government.[aside postID=news_12038914 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/ICE-three-agents.jpg']In May, an \u003ca href=\"https://immigrationforum.org/article/irs-ice-immigration-data-sharing-agreement-explainer/\">agreement\u003c/a> between the Internal Revenue Service and ICE was officialized, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12035735/what-we-now-know-about-the-irs-ice-tax-data-deal\">allowing immigration officials to receive sensitive information\u003c/a> like names, addresses and tax data that can aid deportation efforts. Advocates like the National Immigration Forum called the agreement \u003ca href=\"https://immigrationforum.org/article/irs-ice-immigration-data-sharing-agreement-explainer/\">“unprecedented”\u003c/a> and said that it threatened the IRS’s “longstanding commitment to taxpayer privacy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we are seeing is a huge increase of different federal agencies willfully sharing data, even when they’re not supposed to,” Quintin said. “Even if you personally are not concerned about ICE, I think it should be concerning to anybody. This is going to be used to further \u003ca href=\"https://academic.oup.com/book/33466/chapter-abstract/287744917?redirectedFrom=fulltext\">dragnet surveillance\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED has several explainers sharing guidance for undocumented immigrants and mixed-status students filling out government forms like \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12035735/what-we-now-know-about-the-irs-ice-tax-data-deal\">tax filings\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033573/fafsa-2025-california-priority-deadline-student-aid-department-of-education\">student loan\u003c/a> applications. Experts have stressed that people should always consult with an attorney who is familiar with their situation and immigration status before applying or filing for anything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Data brokers who collect and sell your personal details\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Data brokers collect your data, sell it and even create an individual profile of you that includes information that comes from public records, like marriage licenses, home purchases, even travelers’ \u003ca href=\"https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/data-brokers-are-selling-your-flight-information-cbp-and-ice\">domestic flight records\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turner Willman’s digital security workshop demonstrates how even interacting with a weather app can lead to your information being stored with Venntel, \u003ca href=\"https://www.vice.com/en/article/cbp-dhs-location-data-venntel-apps/\">a company that sold data to U.S. government\u003c/a> agencies for \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/federal-agencies-use-cellphone-location-data-for-immigration-enforcement-11581078600\">immigration enforcement\u003c/a> during the first Trump administration. (In 2024, Venntel was under investigation by the \u003ca href=\"https://jackpoulson.substack.com/p/ftc-opened-investigation-into-commercial\">Federal Trade Commission\u003c/a> under President Joe Biden.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11671250\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11671250 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/gettyimages-482560856_slide-0eb858cc20a7268075b700f441db64e8eadc3fce-e1527620398586.jpg\" alt=\"In California, an initiative expected on November's ballot would be one of the broadest online privacy regulations in the U.S.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Under current U.S. privacy laws, people’s sensitive data, such as marriage licenses, home purchases and even travelers’ domestic flight records, are not as protected as one might think. \u003ccite>(traffic_analyzer/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“[ICE has] \u003ca href=\"https://epic.org/documents/how-data-brokers-harm-immigrants/\">contracts\u003c/a> with data brokers and with tech companies to gain access to our personal data,” Willman said. “Some of that is more obvious stuff, like our contact info, our addresses. But it’s also our social media accounts and our online activity. It’s our location data that’s coming from our cell phones.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Typically, we’re supposed to have constitutional protections around our privacy. There are legal steps to gain access to us, to search us, to surveil us,” Willman said. But through what they call the U.S.’s “unregulated and weak”\u003ca href=\"https://www.security.org/resources/digital-privacy-legislation-by-state/\"> data privacy laws\u003c/a>, “we don’t have those same kind of protections,” Willman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Facial recognition software that can recognize and track you \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facial recognition software, which often scrapes information from public sources like social media accounts, is also a commonly used tool by local law enforcement to \u003ca href=\"https://contracosta.news/2025/02/15/el-cerrito-police-announces-use-of-facial-recognition-software/\">identify possible suspects\u003c/a>. Software like Clearview AI is used by hundreds of police departments across the country, like \u003ca href=\"https://contracosta.news/2025/02/15/el-cerrito-police-announces-use-of-facial-recognition-software/#google_vignette\">the El Cerrito Police Department\u003c/a> in Contra Costa County. Clearview AI is expected to engage in \u003ca href=\"https://www.biometricupdate.com/202508/ice-prepares-sole-source-facial-recognition-deal-with-clearview-ai\">a deeper collaboration with ICE\u003c/a> in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates have long expressed concerns about the use of facial recognition by law enforcement, citing privacy concerns and the documented inaccuracies this technology generates when \u003ca href=\"https://amnesty.ca/features/racial-bias-in-facial-recognition-algorithms/\">identifying people with darker skin\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunc.org/news/aclu-comment-ice-and-california-law-enforcement-use-clearview-ai-s-face-surveillance-system\">women\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has more robust legal protections around this technology than other states. Police officers in the state are \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/california-just-blocked-police-body-cam-use-face\">prohibited from pairing footage\u003c/a> from their body cameras with facial recognition technology, and\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11747249/san-francisco-bans-municipal-agencies-from-using-facial-recognition-technology\"> cities like San Francisco\u003c/a>, Oakland and Berkeley have also \u003ca href=\"https://www.wired.com/story/san-francisco-bans-use-facial-recognition-tech/\">banned\u003c/a> the use of facial recognition technology by city agencies. San Francisco’s police department has nonetheless attempted to \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/05/18/facial-recognition-law-enforcement-austin-san-francisco/\">circumvent the ban\u003c/a>, according to an investigation by \u003cem>The Washington Post\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>404 Media has also reported that ICE \u003ca href=\"https://www.404media.co/ice-is-using-a-new-facial-recognition-app-to-identify-people-leaked-emails-show/\">is using\u003c/a> a mobile app called Mobile Fortify, which can identify someone by pointing a camera at their face — similar to the type of technology used at airports and borders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s very dangerous for people who are maybe out in the street or \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049326/as-ice-operations-expand-how-are-immigrant-allies-responding\">bystanders\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12054798/san-jose-joins-the-growing-call-to-unmask-ice-agents\">ICE kidnapping\u003c/a>s,” Willman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>So what steps can you take for better privacy?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Willman admits that even digital security experts like them are overwhelmed by news like ICE’s partnership with the IRS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s why it’s important to focus on guidance that can feel achievable and within someone’s grasp, Willman said — while acknowledging that “there’s no such thing as being 100% secure or safe.” Rather, “when we use digital security, we are reducing harm and risk,” they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11746095\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11746095\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS8886_facebook-whatsapp-e1557416960993.jpg\" alt=\"The Facebook and WhatsApp applications' icons. Facebook purchase WhatsApp in 2014.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Facebook and WhatsApp applications’ icons. Facebook purchased WhatsApp in 2014. \u003ccite>(Gabriel BouysAFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Start with small steps\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One example Willman gave: People could move their conversations from WhatsApp — a messaging platform that “is very popular in diasporic communities and immigrant communities,” but may be vulnerable to spyware — to Signal, “which has a much better track record and collects way, way less data on us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also worth noting that each person’s situation is different — and avoiding technology is almost impossible for daily life, Quintin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Willman’s workshop, attendees are asked to pose a series of questions to themselves to assess their own risks and figure out how best to perceive with their own digital hygiene practices:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>“What or who do I want to protect?”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>“Who do I want to protect it from? Who are my adversaries?”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>“How motivated and capable are they to get it?”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>“What happens if they do get it?”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>“What am I willing to do to prevent that?”\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Consider removing your information from data brokers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalMatters has \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2024/04/data-broker-registry/\">a guide on deleting your information\u003c/a> from data broker websites or “opting out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A data broker’s opt-out link tends to be at the bottom of the page, and the process can look something like filling out a form or emailing the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It may be hard to even find this opt-out information, though, and many data brokers are \u003ca href=\"https://themarkup.org/privacy/2025/08/18/data-brokers-face-new-pressure-for-hiding-opt-out-pages-from-google\">facing criticism\u003c/a> from elected officials for hiding their opt-out pages from Google search to purposely make it harder for users to find them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11744516\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11744516\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/ap_17049076292456-98ef10b0a38140d3e3616319050b387595d13762-e1556823156400.jpg\" alt=\"In this 2016 photo, a man holds up his iPhone during a rally in support of data privacy outside the Apple store in San Francisco. Watchdog groups that keep tabs on digital privacy rights are concerned that U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents are searching the phones and other digital devices of international travelers at border checkpoints in U.S. airports.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In this 2016 photo, a man holds up his iPhone during a rally in support of data privacy outside the Apple store in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Eric Risberg/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>You can also use a third-party app such as \u003ca href=\"https://permissionslipcr.com/\">Permission Slip\u003c/a> to help you or paid services like \u003ca href=\"https://joindeleteme.com/\">DeleteMe\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-data-removal-services/\">EasyOptOuts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While opting out can also be a lengthy process, the broker must respond within \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2024/04/data-broker-registry/\">90 days\u003c/a> according to California law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For preventive measures, both Quintin and Willman said you should visit your phone’s settings to see which apps you’re already allowing to access your data, under “Permissions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quintin said that it can also be helpful to outright minimize the number of apps on your phone, including restaurant apps. “Deleting a lot of those will help reduce your \u003ca href=\"https://www.fortinet.com/resources/cyberglossary/attack-surface\">attack surface\u003c/a>,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa\">California Consumer Privacy Act\u003c/a> will allow you to request a report of all your data that any company has and delete it, Quintin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I definitely recommend that people exercise their California consumer privacy rights,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Keep your phone’s software up to date \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the\u003ca href=\"https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/eff-statement-ice-use-paragon-solutions-malware\"> EFF statement\u003c/a> regarding Paragon, Quintin states that the company’s spyware “isn’t magical — it’s still just malware.”[aside postID=news_12044323 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-13_qed-1020x680.jpg']“The best thing you can do to protect yourself against Graphite is to keep your phone up to date,” he said, meaning allowing software updates whenever they’re offered. You can also turn on \u003ca href=\"https://faq.whatsapp.com/673193694148537\">“disappearing messages”\u003c/a> on apps like WhatsApp so that their last few texts are not saved. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>The Biden administration put ICE’s original contract with Paragon — reported to be worth $2 million according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/02/trump-immigration-ice-israeli-spyware?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other\">\u003cem>The Guardian\u003c/em> —\u003c/a> under review, to make sure the partnership complied with an executive order that essentially prevents government agencies from using spyware that infringes on \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/03/30/2023-06730/prohibition-on-use-by-the-united-states-government-of-commercial-spyware-that-poses-risks-to\">“forms of human rights abuses or suppression of civil liberties.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration lifted that pause, in a move that the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Cooper Quintin described as \u003ca href=\"https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/eff-statement-ice-use-paragon-solutions-malware\">“extremely troubling”\u003c/a> — citing \u003ca href=\"https://citizenlab.ca/2025/06/first-forensic-confirmation-of-paragons-ios-mercenary-spyware-finds-journalists-targeted/\">research\u003c/a> that found that the hacking software was used in Italy to spy on journalists and humanitarian workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE’s access to the software — and to San Francisco’s license plate data — comes at a time when the agency’s budget has \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/press-release/congress-approves-unprecedented-funding-mass-detention-deportation-2025/\">expanded significantly\u003c/a>, as part of the Trump administration’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/immigration\">immigration enforcement agenda\u003c/a>. KQED spoke to Quintin and other Bay Area technologists focused on public privacy about what people, especially immigrants, should know about the access ICE potentially has to your data.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What \u003cem>are \u003c/em>the digital tools ICE is using?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As you might expect, your online activity generates multiple sources of information that immigration officials can use, like social media accounts, which the Trump administration now requires that \u003ca href=\"https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2025/06/announcement-of-expanded-screening-and-vetting-for-visa-applicants\">people seeking a U.S. visa make public.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not all of the data ICE uses is collected through your phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Those license plate readers can track your movements\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cities around the Bay Area, including San Francisco and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983813/san-jose-adding-hundreds-of-license-plate-readers-amid-privacy-and-efficacy-concerns\">San José\u003c/a>, have installed numerous automated license plate readers: devices that are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989977/san-franciscos-new-license-plate-readers-are-leading-to-arrests-and-concerns-about-privacy\">placed at traffic intersections\u003c/a>, which take pictures of every passing car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, “every single entrance and exit in the city of Piedmont” has an automated license plate reader, said Sam Smith, a Bay Area co-founder of \u003ca href=\"https://convocation.design/\">Convocation Research and Design\u003c/a>, a think-tank that focuses on cybersecurity and human rights. This means, Smith said, that “no one can come or go in a car in Piedmont without it being logged.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11984097\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11984097\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/SAN-JOSE-LICENSE-PLATE-READERS-11-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A man with a fluorescent yellow coat holds a black machine.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/SAN-JOSE-LICENSE-PLATE-READERS-11-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/SAN-JOSE-LICENSE-PLATE-READERS-11-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/SAN-JOSE-LICENSE-PLATE-READERS-11-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/SAN-JOSE-LICENSE-PLATE-READERS-11-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/SAN-JOSE-LICENSE-PLATE-READERS-11-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/SAN-JOSE-LICENSE-PLATE-READERS-11-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Flock Safety worker holds up a new Automated License Plate Reader that was being installed in East San José on Tuesday, April 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Afterwards, the license plate numbers are run against a database of reported stolen vehicles or vehicles linked to suspected crimes. But using a license plate reader is also a simple way to establish someone’s patterns, like where they live, where they go to work and where they like to eat, Quintin said. This could make it easier to predict where someone will be at a certain time of the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.flocksafety.com/\">Flock\u003c/a>, a major license plate reader software used in local government, \u003ca href=\"https://www.404media.co/ice-taps-into-nationwide-ai-enabled-camera-network-data-shows/\">does not\u003c/a> have a formal contract with ICE. However, \u003ca href=\"https://www.404media.co/ice-taps-into-nationwide-ai-enabled-camera-network-data-shows/\">a May investigation\u003c/a> by tech outlet 404 Media found instances where local law enforcement in places like \u003ca href=\"https://www.404media.co/flock-removes-states-from-national-lookup-tool-after-ice-and-abortion-searches-revealed/\">Illinois\u003c/a> had looked up individuals in the company’s automated license plate reader system — to then pass on to ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite California law barring local law enforcement from cooperating with ICE investigations except in cases of serious crimes, CalMatters reported that local authorities in Southern California \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2025/06/california-police-sharing-license-plate-reader-data/\">shared license plate information\u003c/a> with ICE more than 100 times. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In May, an \u003ca href=\"https://immigrationforum.org/article/irs-ice-immigration-data-sharing-agreement-explainer/\">agreement\u003c/a> between the Internal Revenue Service and ICE was officialized, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12035735/what-we-now-know-about-the-irs-ice-tax-data-deal\">allowing immigration officials to receive sensitive information\u003c/a> like names, addresses and tax data that can aid deportation efforts. Advocates like the National Immigration Forum called the agreement \u003ca href=\"https://immigrationforum.org/article/irs-ice-immigration-data-sharing-agreement-explainer/\">“unprecedented”\u003c/a> and said that it threatened the IRS’s “longstanding commitment to taxpayer privacy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we are seeing is a huge increase of different federal agencies willfully sharing data, even when they’re not supposed to,” Quintin said. “Even if you personally are not concerned about ICE, I think it should be concerning to anybody. This is going to be used to further \u003ca href=\"https://academic.oup.com/book/33466/chapter-abstract/287744917?redirectedFrom=fulltext\">dragnet surveillance\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED has several explainers sharing guidance for undocumented immigrants and mixed-status students filling out government forms like \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12035735/what-we-now-know-about-the-irs-ice-tax-data-deal\">tax filings\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033573/fafsa-2025-california-priority-deadline-student-aid-department-of-education\">student loan\u003c/a> applications. Experts have stressed that people should always consult with an attorney who is familiar with their situation and immigration status before applying or filing for anything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Data brokers who collect and sell your personal details\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Data brokers collect your data, sell it and even create an individual profile of you that includes information that comes from public records, like marriage licenses, home purchases, even travelers’ \u003ca href=\"https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/data-brokers-are-selling-your-flight-information-cbp-and-ice\">domestic flight records\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turner Willman’s digital security workshop demonstrates how even interacting with a weather app can lead to your information being stored with Venntel, \u003ca href=\"https://www.vice.com/en/article/cbp-dhs-location-data-venntel-apps/\">a company that sold data to U.S. government\u003c/a> agencies for \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/federal-agencies-use-cellphone-location-data-for-immigration-enforcement-11581078600\">immigration enforcement\u003c/a> during the first Trump administration. (In 2024, Venntel was under investigation by the \u003ca href=\"https://jackpoulson.substack.com/p/ftc-opened-investigation-into-commercial\">Federal Trade Commission\u003c/a> under President Joe Biden.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11671250\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11671250 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/gettyimages-482560856_slide-0eb858cc20a7268075b700f441db64e8eadc3fce-e1527620398586.jpg\" alt=\"In California, an initiative expected on November's ballot would be one of the broadest online privacy regulations in the U.S.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Under current U.S. privacy laws, people’s sensitive data, such as marriage licenses, home purchases and even travelers’ domestic flight records, are not as protected as one might think. \u003ccite>(traffic_analyzer/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“[ICE has] \u003ca href=\"https://epic.org/documents/how-data-brokers-harm-immigrants/\">contracts\u003c/a> with data brokers and with tech companies to gain access to our personal data,” Willman said. “Some of that is more obvious stuff, like our contact info, our addresses. But it’s also our social media accounts and our online activity. It’s our location data that’s coming from our cell phones.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Typically, we’re supposed to have constitutional protections around our privacy. There are legal steps to gain access to us, to search us, to surveil us,” Willman said. But through what they call the U.S.’s “unregulated and weak”\u003ca href=\"https://www.security.org/resources/digital-privacy-legislation-by-state/\"> data privacy laws\u003c/a>, “we don’t have those same kind of protections,” Willman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Facial recognition software that can recognize and track you \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facial recognition software, which often scrapes information from public sources like social media accounts, is also a commonly used tool by local law enforcement to \u003ca href=\"https://contracosta.news/2025/02/15/el-cerrito-police-announces-use-of-facial-recognition-software/\">identify possible suspects\u003c/a>. Software like Clearview AI is used by hundreds of police departments across the country, like \u003ca href=\"https://contracosta.news/2025/02/15/el-cerrito-police-announces-use-of-facial-recognition-software/#google_vignette\">the El Cerrito Police Department\u003c/a> in Contra Costa County. Clearview AI is expected to engage in \u003ca href=\"https://www.biometricupdate.com/202508/ice-prepares-sole-source-facial-recognition-deal-with-clearview-ai\">a deeper collaboration with ICE\u003c/a> in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates have long expressed concerns about the use of facial recognition by law enforcement, citing privacy concerns and the documented inaccuracies this technology generates when \u003ca href=\"https://amnesty.ca/features/racial-bias-in-facial-recognition-algorithms/\">identifying people with darker skin\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunc.org/news/aclu-comment-ice-and-california-law-enforcement-use-clearview-ai-s-face-surveillance-system\">women\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has more robust legal protections around this technology than other states. Police officers in the state are \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/california-just-blocked-police-body-cam-use-face\">prohibited from pairing footage\u003c/a> from their body cameras with facial recognition technology, and\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11747249/san-francisco-bans-municipal-agencies-from-using-facial-recognition-technology\"> cities like San Francisco\u003c/a>, Oakland and Berkeley have also \u003ca href=\"https://www.wired.com/story/san-francisco-bans-use-facial-recognition-tech/\">banned\u003c/a> the use of facial recognition technology by city agencies. San Francisco’s police department has nonetheless attempted to \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/05/18/facial-recognition-law-enforcement-austin-san-francisco/\">circumvent the ban\u003c/a>, according to an investigation by \u003cem>The Washington Post\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>404 Media has also reported that ICE \u003ca href=\"https://www.404media.co/ice-is-using-a-new-facial-recognition-app-to-identify-people-leaked-emails-show/\">is using\u003c/a> a mobile app called Mobile Fortify, which can identify someone by pointing a camera at their face — similar to the type of technology used at airports and borders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s very dangerous for people who are maybe out in the street or \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049326/as-ice-operations-expand-how-are-immigrant-allies-responding\">bystanders\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12054798/san-jose-joins-the-growing-call-to-unmask-ice-agents\">ICE kidnapping\u003c/a>s,” Willman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>So what steps can you take for better privacy?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Willman admits that even digital security experts like them are overwhelmed by news like ICE’s partnership with the IRS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s why it’s important to focus on guidance that can feel achievable and within someone’s grasp, Willman said — while acknowledging that “there’s no such thing as being 100% secure or safe.” Rather, “when we use digital security, we are reducing harm and risk,” they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11746095\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11746095\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS8886_facebook-whatsapp-e1557416960993.jpg\" alt=\"The Facebook and WhatsApp applications' icons. Facebook purchase WhatsApp in 2014.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Facebook and WhatsApp applications’ icons. Facebook purchased WhatsApp in 2014. \u003ccite>(Gabriel BouysAFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Start with small steps\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One example Willman gave: People could move their conversations from WhatsApp — a messaging platform that “is very popular in diasporic communities and immigrant communities,” but may be vulnerable to spyware — to Signal, “which has a much better track record and collects way, way less data on us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also worth noting that each person’s situation is different — and avoiding technology is almost impossible for daily life, Quintin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Willman’s workshop, attendees are asked to pose a series of questions to themselves to assess their own risks and figure out how best to perceive with their own digital hygiene practices:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>“What or who do I want to protect?”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>“Who do I want to protect it from? Who are my adversaries?”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>“How motivated and capable are they to get it?”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>“What happens if they do get it?”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>“What am I willing to do to prevent that?”\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Consider removing your information from data brokers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalMatters has \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2024/04/data-broker-registry/\">a guide on deleting your information\u003c/a> from data broker websites or “opting out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A data broker’s opt-out link tends to be at the bottom of the page, and the process can look something like filling out a form or emailing the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It may be hard to even find this opt-out information, though, and many data brokers are \u003ca href=\"https://themarkup.org/privacy/2025/08/18/data-brokers-face-new-pressure-for-hiding-opt-out-pages-from-google\">facing criticism\u003c/a> from elected officials for hiding their opt-out pages from Google search to purposely make it harder for users to find them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11744516\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11744516\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/ap_17049076292456-98ef10b0a38140d3e3616319050b387595d13762-e1556823156400.jpg\" alt=\"In this 2016 photo, a man holds up his iPhone during a rally in support of data privacy outside the Apple store in San Francisco. Watchdog groups that keep tabs on digital privacy rights are concerned that U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents are searching the phones and other digital devices of international travelers at border checkpoints in U.S. airports.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In this 2016 photo, a man holds up his iPhone during a rally in support of data privacy outside the Apple store in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Eric Risberg/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>You can also use a third-party app such as \u003ca href=\"https://permissionslipcr.com/\">Permission Slip\u003c/a> to help you or paid services like \u003ca href=\"https://joindeleteme.com/\">DeleteMe\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-data-removal-services/\">EasyOptOuts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While opting out can also be a lengthy process, the broker must respond within \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2024/04/data-broker-registry/\">90 days\u003c/a> according to California law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For preventive measures, both Quintin and Willman said you should visit your phone’s settings to see which apps you’re already allowing to access your data, under “Permissions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quintin said that it can also be helpful to outright minimize the number of apps on your phone, including restaurant apps. “Deleting a lot of those will help reduce your \u003ca href=\"https://www.fortinet.com/resources/cyberglossary/attack-surface\">attack surface\u003c/a>,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa\">California Consumer Privacy Act\u003c/a> will allow you to request a report of all your data that any company has and delete it, Quintin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I definitely recommend that people exercise their California consumer privacy rights,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Keep your phone’s software up to date \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the\u003ca href=\"https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/eff-statement-ice-use-paragon-solutions-malware\"> EFF statement\u003c/a> regarding Paragon, Quintin states that the company’s spyware “isn’t magical — it’s still just malware.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“The best thing you can do to protect yourself against Graphite is to keep your phone up to date,” he said, meaning allowing software updates whenever they’re offered. You can also turn on \u003ca href=\"https://faq.whatsapp.com/673193694148537\">“disappearing messages”\u003c/a> on apps like WhatsApp so that their last few texts are not saved. On \u003ca href=\"https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/delete-messages-and-attachments-iph2c9c4bfcb/ios\">an iPhone\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://www.samsung.com/us/support/answer/ANS10001923/\">Android\u003c/a>, you can go to your settings and automatically delete old messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you suspect you are being targeted in a cyberattack, you can enable \u003ca href=\"https://support.apple.com/en-us/105120\">Lockdown Mode\u003c/a> (on an iPhone) or \u003ca href=\"https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/9764949?hl=en\">Advanced Protection Mode\u003c/a> (on an Android), limiting some functionality of your phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Advocate for better protections\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Individual action can only go so far when faced with a systematic issue, Quintin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said it’s why people also need to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049326/as-ice-operations-expand-how-are-immigrant-allies-responding\">work with their community\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967439/how-can-i-call-my-representative-a-step-by-step-guide-to-the-process\">call their elected representative\u003c/a> to advocate for better laws around surveillance tech like Flock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any one of these things individually isn’t going to do anything,” he said. “When we do all of these things together, that’s really how we protect our communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Start using apps and browsers that offer higher degrees of privacy\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://signal.org/\">Signal\u003c/a> (an encrypted messaging app)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://brave.com/\">Brave\u003c/a> (a browser)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.firefox.com/en-US/landing/get/?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=21953014515&gbraid=0AAAAAD-k1GoU5cx3InnRFVnrEWj-o_BBZ&gclid=CjwKCAjwlOrFBhBaEiwAw4bYDXtvyTTZsS7iPAQI-hYp092tbIUPuooqx_4TaQCunanjFqmDhRl9vxoCIb0QAvD_BwE&utm_campaign=SET_DEFAULT_BROWSER\">Firefox\u003c/a> (a browser)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://mullvad.net/en\">Mullvad\u003c/a> (a VPN)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://privacybadger.org/\">Privacy Badger\u003c/a> (an ad and trackers blocker)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://ublockorigin.com/\">uBlock Origin\u003c/a> (an ad blocker)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://duckduckgo.com/\">Duck Duck Go\u003c/a> (a search engine)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More resources to better your digital privacy:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://ssd.eff.org/\">Surveillance Self-Defense\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>More tools from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.eff.org/pages/tools\">Electronic Frontier Foundation\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.privacyguides.org/en/\">Privacy Guides\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://libguides.rutgers.edu/digitalprivacy\">Rutgers University\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://themarkup.org/gentle-january/2024/01/31/overwhelmed-by-digital-privacy-reset-with-these-practical-tips\">The Markup\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/a-former-hackers-guide-to-boosting-your-online-security\">ProPublica\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://digitaldefensefund.org/\">Digital Defense Fund\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003c!-- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ -->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Supreme Court today granted the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/trump-administration\">Trump administration\u003c/a>’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26044229-25a169/\">emergency request\u003c/a> to lift a temporary restraining order barring federal immigration officials from conducting “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12051954/judge-to-rule-whether-trumps-use-of-troops-in-la-violated-federal-law\">roving patrols\u003c/a>” and profiling people based on their appearance in Los Angeles and Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case is likely to have an enormous impact, not just for Los Angeles but across the country, several experts told CalMatters. It means \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12054771/what-ice-agents-can-and-cannot-legally-do-during-arrests\">immigration agents can legally\u003c/a> resume aggressive street sweeps that began in early June in Los Angeles, the epicenter for President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Supreme Court, by a 6-3 majority, \u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/25a169_5h25.pdf\">agreed with the Trump administration\u003c/a> that federal immigration officers can briefly detain and interrogate individuals about whether they are lawfully in the United States and that they can rely on a “totality of circumstances” standard for reasonable suspicion. That means everything the officer knew and observed at the time of the stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Supreme Court took the case through its emergency docket, also known as the shadow docket, which is used for cases that are handled speedily with limited briefing and typically no oral argument.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justices do not have to publish an opinion when they act from the emergency docket. Justice Brett Kavanaugh, nonetheless, wrote a concurring opinion explaining his reasoning in lifting restrictions on Los Angeles immigration sweeps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055174\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055174\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Brett-Kavanaugh-Getty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Brett-Kavanaugh-Getty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Brett-Kavanaugh-Getty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Brett-Kavanaugh-Getty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left to right: Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Roberts, Justice Elena Kagan, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, and retired Justice Anthony Kennedy attend U.S. President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol on March 04, 2025 in Washington, D.C. President Trump was expected to address Congress on his early achievements of his presidency and his upcoming legislative agenda. \u003ccite>(Win McNamee/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Here, those circumstances include: that there is an extremely high number and percentage of illegal immigrants in the Los Angeles area; that those individuals tend to gather in certain locations to seek daily work; that those individuals often work in certain kinds of jobs, such as day labor, landscaping, agriculture, and construction, that do not require paperwork and are therefore especially attractive to illegal immigrants; and that many of those illegally in the Los Angeles area come from Mexico or Central America and do not speak much English,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To be clear,” he continued, “ethnicity alone cannot furnish reasonable suspicion; under this Court’s case law regarding immigration stops, however, it can be a ‘relevant factor’ when considered with other salient factors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three justices appointed by Democratic presidents dissented from the majority, stressing that they objected to the court lifting limitations on immigration sweeps without oral argument and through the emergency docket, which the Trump administration used extensively this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Supreme Court has sided with Trump in at least 17 cases in a row now.[aside postID=news_12055084 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250905-ADOPTACORNER_00645_TV-KQED.jpg']“That decision is yet another grave misuse of our emergency docket,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in the dissent. “We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low-wage job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles and dozens of other Southern California municipalities wrote in an amicus brief supporting the restraining order that, because of the population makeup that “half the population” of the region meets the federal government’s criteria for being stopped and questioned about their immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom, in a written statement, condemned the decision and said the state would “continue fighting these abhorrent attacks on Californians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Trump’s hand-picked Supreme Court majority just became the Grand Marshal for a parade of racial terror in Los Angeles. This isn’t about enforcing immigration laws — it’s about targeting Latinos and anyone who doesn’t look or sound like Stephen Miller’s idea of an American, including U.S. citizens and children, to deliberately harm California’s families and small businesses,” Newsom said, referring to Trump’s deputy chief of staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051595\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051595\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/GavinNewsomTexasDemsAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/GavinNewsomTexasDemsAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/GavinNewsomTexasDemsAP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/GavinNewsomTexasDemsAP-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Accompanied by California and Texas lawmakers, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, center, discusses the push to schedule a special election to redraw California’s Congressional voting districts, during a news conference in Sacramento, California, on Friday, Aug. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Rich Pedroncelli/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The ruling means the Border Patrol can \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/investigation/2025/06/taken-la-immigration-raids/\">resume the aggressive tactics\u003c/a> a district federal judge said violated people’s Fourth Amendment constitutional rights against unreasonable search and seizure. 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That idea is anathema to everything the United States stands for, and it should be rejected,” a group of cities in Los Angeles County wrote in an amicus brief supporting restrictions on immigration agents. They wrote that this summer’s raids had “sown terror” in their communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>L.A. immigration sweeps continued\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Despite the previous order barring profiling, agents have continued an \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/07/immigration-raids-who/\">aggressive enforcement blitz \u003c/a>in the nation’s second-largest city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 40 agents hit a Westlake Home Depot on Aug. 28, using tear gas and pepper pellets to disperse a crowd before detaining eight people, a Border Patrol official confirmed Friday. That’s the same location where agents previously \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/CMDROpAtLargeCA/status/1953616253270327491\">made a hype video set to rap music\u003c/a> of themselves hiding in a Penske rental truck before bursting out to detain day laborers in a raid dubbed Operation Trojan Horse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054681\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12054681\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-2220320695-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1708\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-2220320695-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-2220320695-2000x1334.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-2220320695-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-2220320695-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-2220320695-2048x1366.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A day laborer waits on the parking lot of a Home Depot as federal immigration conducts raids in Los Angeles, California on June 20, 2025. \u003ccite>(Etienne Laurent/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Under Operation-At-Large Chief \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/investigation/2025/06/los-angeles-border-patrol-chief/\">Gregory Bovino\u003c/a>, the Border Patrol has detained Latino daylaborers, swarming Home Depots and carwashes across the nation’s second-largest city. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Supreme Court took the case through its emergency docket, also known as the shadow docket, which is used for cases that are handled speedily with limited briefing and typically no oral argument.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justices do not have to publish an opinion when they act from the emergency docket. Justice Brett Kavanaugh, nonetheless, wrote a concurring opinion explaining his reasoning in lifting restrictions on Los Angeles immigration sweeps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055174\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055174\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Brett-Kavanaugh-Getty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Brett-Kavanaugh-Getty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Brett-Kavanaugh-Getty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Brett-Kavanaugh-Getty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left to right: Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Roberts, Justice Elena Kagan, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, and retired Justice Anthony Kennedy attend U.S. President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol on March 04, 2025 in Washington, D.C. President Trump was expected to address Congress on his early achievements of his presidency and his upcoming legislative agenda. \u003ccite>(Win McNamee/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Here, those circumstances include: that there is an extremely high number and percentage of illegal immigrants in the Los Angeles area; that those individuals tend to gather in certain locations to seek daily work; that those individuals often work in certain kinds of jobs, such as day labor, landscaping, agriculture, and construction, that do not require paperwork and are therefore especially attractive to illegal immigrants; and that many of those illegally in the Los Angeles area come from Mexico or Central America and do not speak much English,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To be clear,” he continued, “ethnicity alone cannot furnish reasonable suspicion; under this Court’s case law regarding immigration stops, however, it can be a ‘relevant factor’ when considered with other salient factors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three justices appointed by Democratic presidents dissented from the majority, stressing that they objected to the court lifting limitations on immigration sweeps without oral argument and through the emergency docket, which the Trump administration used extensively this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Supreme Court has sided with Trump in at least 17 cases in a row now.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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This isn’t about enforcing immigration laws — it’s about targeting Latinos and anyone who doesn’t look or sound like Stephen Miller’s idea of an American, including U.S. citizens and children, to deliberately harm California’s families and small businesses,” Newsom said, referring to Trump’s deputy chief of staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051595\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051595\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/GavinNewsomTexasDemsAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/GavinNewsomTexasDemsAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/GavinNewsomTexasDemsAP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/GavinNewsomTexasDemsAP-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Accompanied by California and Texas lawmakers, California Gov. 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It chills the exercise of Executive authority and usurps the President’s Article II powers to enforce our immigration laws,” attorneys for the Trump administration wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Why courts paused ‘roving patrols’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The district court found, based on a “mountain of evidence,” that the government engaged in a pattern of conducting stops without reasonable suspicion—relying solely on traits like race or ethnicity, speaking Spanish or accented English, the location a person is in, and the type of work a person does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals had upheld the lower court’s ruling, chiding the Trump administration for misrepresenting the restraining order in their appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053411\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053411\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/DSC02098-scaled-e1755897157954.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California National Guard patrol downtown Los Angeles on June 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Aisha Wallace-Palomares/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If, as the Defendants suggest, they are not conducting stops that lack reasonable suspicion, they can hardly claim to be irreparably harmed by an injunction aimed at preventing … stops not supported by reasonable suspicion,” the three-judge panel from the 9th Circuit wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A coalition of civil rights, immigrant rights, and local government agencies, including the American Civil Liberties Union and the United Farm Workers, sought the order, arguing the LA-area raids have violated people’s rights by allowing federal immigration agents to stop people who simply appear to be Latino, including U.S. citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The federal government is seeking to detain individuals solely because they are not white, speak Spanish or speak accented English. That idea is anathema to everything the United States stands for, and it should be rejected,” a group of cities in Los Angeles County wrote in an amicus brief supporting restrictions on immigration agents. They wrote that this summer’s raids had “sown terror” in their communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>L.A. immigration sweeps continued\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Despite the previous order barring profiling, agents have continued an \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/07/immigration-raids-who/\">aggressive enforcement blitz \u003c/a>in the nation’s second-largest city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 40 agents hit a Westlake Home Depot on Aug. 28, using tear gas and pepper pellets to disperse a crowd before detaining eight people, a Border Patrol official confirmed Friday. That’s the same location where agents previously \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/CMDROpAtLargeCA/status/1953616253270327491\">made a hype video set to rap music\u003c/a> of themselves hiding in a Penske rental truck before bursting out to detain day laborers in a raid dubbed Operation Trojan Horse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054681\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12054681\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-2220320695-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1708\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-2220320695-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-2220320695-2000x1334.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-2220320695-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-2220320695-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-2220320695-2048x1366.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A day laborer waits on the parking lot of a Home Depot as federal immigration conducts raids in Los Angeles, California on June 20, 2025. \u003ccite>(Etienne Laurent/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Under Operation-At-Large Chief \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/investigation/2025/06/los-angeles-border-patrol-chief/\">Gregory Bovino\u003c/a>, the Border Patrol has detained Latino daylaborers, swarming Home Depots and carwashes across the nation’s second-largest city. 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While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:00:00] I’m Jessica Kariisa, in for Ericka Cruz Guevara, and welcome to The Bay, local news to keep you rooted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Julio \u003c/strong>[00:00:07] Way over there. You have to look at a car that comes in, it’s suspicious, we’re all there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:00:17] This is Julio. He’s a day laborer in Oakland. On some mornings, he stands on a corner waiting for someone to offer him work. It could be in landscaping or construction, but he’s really not picky. He’ll do most work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Julio \u003c/strong>[00:00:37] Whatever, whatever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:00:43] Julio’s already in a vulnerable position. He’s standing outside on a public corner, waiting to interact with strangers. But these days, it’s even more dangerous because many day laborers, including Julio, are undocumented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Newsreel \u003c/strong>[00:01:00] This cell phone video shows another raid. This happened at a Home Depot in Westlake. Now agents pulled up in unmarked vans and you can see the panic and the fear in the streets among the street vendors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:01:12] An increase in ICE activity has also led to a lot more fear among day laborers like Julio. But volunteers are responding. They’re showing up to those same street corners to keep watch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christy \u003c/strong>[00:01:29] I believe in social justice, I believe right and wrong, and I can’t sit on my hands and say that’s wrong without doing something about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:01:41] Today, why volunteers are adopting street corners for day laborers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero \u003c/strong>[00:01:56] So I went to this intersection in East Oakland in the morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero \u003c/strong>[00:02:07] It’s really busy, you know. There’s a lot of parents walking their kids to a nearby school, people waiting for the bus. It was a U-Haul parking lot. There was a lot activity there, in addition to about 10 to 12 day laborers waiting for jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:02:23] And why did you want to go to to that corner?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero \u003c/strong>[00:02:26] Yeah, so that’s where a training was gonna happen for volunteers of a program called Adopt a Day Laborer Corner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Steve Robles \u003c/strong>[00:02:37] Right, the hardest thing is always being a step ahead of this department, right, of this agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero \u003c/strong>[00:02:42] The idea is that people who want to support folks who might be at risk of detention by immigration authorities or stops by immigration authorities and who want to just, you know, support physically often vulnerable immigrants like delivers by being there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:03:02] And yeah, I’ve definitely seen corners where, you know, day laborers are waiting for work. I haven’t seen volunteers there waiting there with them. Can you tell me a little bit more about what the volunteers were doing when you were there?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero \u003c/strong>[00:03:15] Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I didn’t know what exactly we were going to find, but I was very curious and the reason I worked on the story was I was curious about who was getting up early in the morning to do something like that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christy \u003c/strong>[00:03:28] I need to be out with the community I can’t and immigration has always been a real heartbreaker for me and it’s always been in my heart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero \u003c/strong>[00:03:37] I’m gonna only use their first names because both were afraid or concerned about negative impacts of their full names being out. So one of the volunteers I met, her name is Christy, and she’s 60 years old. She’s an interpreter. She lives in Alameda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christy \u003c/strong>[00:03:54] So I just decided, this seems like something I can do. I’m bilingual, I can look out, I have…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero \u003c/strong>[00:04:00] And then the other volunteer is Wendy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wendy \u003c/strong>[00:04:03] Yeah, I’ve been here a few times. This will be my second week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero \u003c/strong>[00:04:10] And it was really interesting because Wendy works in public health, she actually lives nearby and she said she’d been you know spending time in the mornings there bringing her knitting and like chatting with with workers while she sat there. Both of them spoke Spanish you know they’re you know white American ladies who speak Spanish and so they felt like their jobs were either flexible enough in schedule or they could make time in a morning before their jobs to show up and do this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wendy \u003c/strong>[00:04:41] I’m not much of one for writing letters or emailing or calling, but this is something I can do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:04:49] Can you tell me a bit more about why they said they were out there?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero \u003c/strong>[00:04:53] So I think both of these women were really activated by the recent bystander videos we’ve seen of federal agents detaining people in the Los Angeles area and nearby counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christy \u003c/strong>[00:05:10] You know, watching what was going on in LA just broke my heart. It’s like, how can I, you know, be of service for a community?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero \u003c/strong>[00:05:18] And then, especially, Christy talked about how she was really distressed by videos of immigration agents violently detaining people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christy \u003c/strong>[00:05:29] I believe in social justice. I believe in right and wrong and I can’t sit on my hands and say that’s wrong without doing something about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:05:43] And this call that they heard to adopt a day laborer corner, where did it come from? Who’s behind it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero \u003c/strong>[00:05:50] Yeah, so there’s been an organization for a long time called the National Day Laborer Organizing Network. They’re based in Southern California, but they’re national. They have, I think, dozens of organizations like Street Level Health Project in Oakland that are part of this network. And so what they told me is that for years they’ve encouraged people to sort of make neighbors, employers, other folks to make a connection with these day laborers, you know, and like bring them coffee or not be afraid to chat with them outside of, you know, work projects. When the LA immigration operations started really heating up in the summer, they sort of formalized that initiative and made it into this Adopt a Corner program. They said they got like thousands of people, you know, attending their trainings, and so they’ve had a massive spike in interest, you now, to show up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:06:53] So say I decide to adopt a coroner. Is the goal for me if I see an ICE raid happening or if I see ICE coming to stop that from happening or to stop someone from being detained, what exactly is the goal?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero \u003c/strong>[00:07:08] No, that is not the goal. The main goal is just to first monitor what’s happening. What we’ve seen with immigration enforcement is often they don’t have identification that says immigration or ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Steve Robles \u003c/strong>[00:07:26] When it comes to adopt a corner, your position is more as a watch out. We want you to be very aware of your surroundings and very vigilant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero \u003c/strong>[00:07:36] Steve Robles is with Street Level Health Project, which is an organization, I think their office is in the Fruitvale. Steve was talking to the volunteers about what they were expected to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Steve Robles \u003c/strong>[00:07:50] One thing that we’ve noticed is if a truck is large enough to have people standing up in the back, that’s a big red flag because what they’re doing is these raids happen in maybe five minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero \u003c/strong>[00:08:03] He told them that ICE arrests, especially in public places, can happen very quickly. And their job as volunteers is to, as soon as they spot, you know, this kind of activity happening or something they suspect, this, you know immigration enforcement showing up, to call a number that alerts a wider network of immigrant advocates and lawyers, and at the same time to try to document what’s happening with their cell phones. After arrests happen, people need to figure out who was arrested, you know, and then try to alert the relatives. So there’s that kind of gathering of information that will help later on. It’s getting maybe legal help to people who need it, alerting relatives or friends about what’s happened and that kind stuff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:08:59] So really like serving as a witness and then helping to activate a chain of events that might allow someone to get more resources and more help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:09:16] For the day laborers themselves, seeing these volunteers, how does that make them feel? Do they feel safer?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero \u003c/strong>[00:09:34] At first people are like who are these folks you know why are you just standing there and then the day laborers felt like well I mean it’s another pair of eyes right that is here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Julio \u003c/strong>[00:09:45] It’s good that they live here because it’s more protected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero \u003c/strong>[00:09:49] It feels like there’s more people besides the workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Julio \u003c/strong>[00:09:53] There’s more people, yeah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero \u003c/strong>[00:09:54] Julio is a day laborer, originally from Honduras, because of his immigration status, we’re not using his full name. He’s been in the States for a long time, and mostly works construction, landscaping jobs, but he says he comes to this particular corner in Oakland, you know, when he’s done with those jobs and is in between jobs, to try to supplement his income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero \u003c/strong>[00:10:22] You have to be careful because you don’t know what’s going to happen. You have a suspicious car coming. We’re all there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero \u003c/strong>[00:10:32] He was very vigilant while we were talking. A lot of these, I think the immigration enforcement in Southern California has really made these folks who were already concerned about ICE agents showing up be even more worried about that. And because of the nature of their job, I mean, you have like vehicles coming up to them and then a potential employer asking who wants to work, explaining about the terms for the project. But when new people approach, they’re trying to figure out if it’s safe to even come close to that vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:11:09] Yeah, I mean, it sounds incredibly stressful. And I imagine Julio has so many other things going on, you know, trying to get work and, you know trying to also stay in the country. I wonder what is his most pressing need as a day laborer? And like, are initiatives like Adopt a Corner helping him?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero \u003c/strong>[00:11:30] We’ll see you know what the impact is but for day laborers I mean they’re out there because they need the work. They need to make money they need to pay rent they need to they often send money back to their home countries to their families Julio said he was like sending money to his daughter he’s you know in college in Honduras so I think their most pressing needs remain the same which is you know like make a living. Even though we’ve heard that the number of day laborers definitely went down in these very public spaces, you know, many still need to like make money so they have to come out. And here in Northern California, we have not seen that level of immigration enforcement that we’ve seen in LA. But there’s definitely a sense that people are watching and they’re trying to prepare. And so I think the volunteers I spoke with felt like this was something that they could start doing now to build those relationships, figure out what corner they’re going to be in, and then if needed, they’ll be there. So I think a lot of this is a lot preparation in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:12:44] Yeah, yeah. Sort of picking up on that, you know, on the other side of it, you know, people watching all these things happening, seeing all these viral videos. There have been different responses to it. We’ve seen huge protests in the Bay Area all across California. 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"content": "\u003cp>A new \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12046793/facility-in-california-city-expected-to-be-states-largest-migrant-detention-center\">immigration detention facility\u003c/a> has quietly opened in California’s Mojave Desert, even though the private prison company that owns it may lack the permits to operate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California City Detention Facility in Kern County is set to become the largest immigration detention center in the state, with a \u003ca href=\"https://ir.corecivic.com/news-releases/news-release-details/corecivic-reports-second-quarter-2025-financial-results#:~:text=Intake%20Process%20Expected%20to%20Begin,required%20to%20operate%20the%20facility.\">capacity \u003c/a>of 2,560 beds. It’s part of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12048121/how-immigrant-communities-are-bracing-for-ice-expansion\">Trump administration’s push\u003c/a> for a massive expansion of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention nationally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reopened prison in California City, a small town 100 miles north of Los Angeles, would significantly increase ICE’s ability to hold immigrants for deportation in the state. For most of the past year, ICE has held roughly 3,600 people a day on average across its six other California facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CoreCivic, the Tennessee-based private prison company that owns and operates the facility, confirmed it has begun receiving ICE detainees but would not say when it started to do so. Lawyers for detained immigrants say they first heard last week that clients were being transferred from other locations to California City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are once again housing federal detainees to meet the immediate needs of our government partners,” CoreCivic spokesperson Ryan Gustin said in a statement. He added that the company was responding “to an immediate need from the federal government for safe, humane and appropriate housing and care for these individuals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054610\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12054610\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/CoreCivicKernCountyGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/CoreCivicKernCountyGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/CoreCivicKernCountyGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/CoreCivicKernCountyGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The CoreCivic, Inc. California City Immigration Processing Center stands in the Kern County desert awaiting reopening as a federal immigrant detention facility under contract with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in California City, California, on July 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yet immigrant rights advocates who oppose the facility claim CoreCivic is operating without proper permits and in defiance of a state law that \u003ca href=\"https://legiscan.com/CA/text/SB29/id/1651848\">requires \u003c/a>180 days’ public notice and two public meetings before a local government can issue a permit allowing a private company to run an immigration jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CoreCivic built the prison in the 1990s with a capacity of 2,300 inmates. It contracted first with the federal government and then with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, which operated it as a state prison. The state ended its contract in 2023 as part of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11949943/when-california-downsizes-prisons-incarcerated-people-are-shuffled-out-of-community-college-classes\">an effort to reduce incarceration.\u003c/a> The prison has sat empty since.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Significant public health and safety risks’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Grisel Ruiz, an attorney with the Immigrant Legal Resource Center in San Francisco, said CoreCivic still needs a city business license and a conditional use permit, arguing that an immigration detention center differs significantly from a long-term prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are operating unlawfully,” she told the California City Planning Commission at its meeting Tuesday. “We urge the Planning Commission to hold CoreCivic accountable to local municipal code and state law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054615\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12054615 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/CoreCivicKQED1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/CoreCivicKQED1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/CoreCivicKQED1-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/CoreCivicKQED1-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The CoreCivic Inc. California City Immigration Processing Center in California City, California, in June 2025. \u003ccite>(Saul Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ruiz was one of dozens of immigrant advocates, business owners, faith leaders and local residents who spoke in opposition to the project at the packed meeting on Tuesday night. Many called on the commission to shut down CoreCivic’s facility for operating without permits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chair David Brottlund said commissioners could not act on an issue unless staff presented them with an agenda item, and that he city council could overrule them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The five-member city council has not had a quorum to function for weeks, after two members stepped down and another has missed meetings. As a result, Mayor Marquette Hawkins said the council has not had a chance to discuss the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company has applied for a business license, but the application is still pending. In an Aug. 5 Planning Commission \u003ca href=\"https://californiacity.granicus.com/DocumentViewer.php?file=californiacity_88dee556fc9f227ce0b4a1acab618b55.pdf&view=1\">report\u003c/a>, city planner Anu Doravari noted: “Business license will be considered for approval once Fire & Building Dept. requirements and inspections are met.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The facility failed a fire department inspection in late July.[aside postID=news_12053380 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/75ACE4D9-068E-4167-9BD3-CFF3A0BE597B-2000x1335.jpg']In a July 29 letter to CoreCivic describing the deficiencies, City Manager Christopher Lopez wrote that the building is unsafe and violates the fire code because its construction prevents radio signals from transmitting from key areas, including the location of the fire alarm control panel, mechanics shop, IT server rooms and some inmate cells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Risks to the public’s health and safety are of such significance that the City cannot permit or otherwise allow for the operation of the facility at this time and in its current condition,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lopez was unavailable for comment on whether the fire safety issue had been resolved and what permits city staff believe CoreCivic must obtain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gustin said CoreCivic had addressed all the concerns raised in the letter and had “submitted all required information for the business license.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hawkins said in an interview that the city lacks jurisdiction over what a private business does, “as long as they have their ducks in a row.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the case of the immigration processing center, which has the federal layer of protection, there’s even less that we can do as a municipality in terms of how we regulate what they do and whether or not their doors open,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hawkins said some residents expressed concern that the CoreCivic facility put too much pressure on the desert city’s water and sewer systems. He acknowledged that those systems are fragile but said the prison was not the source of the problem. The detention facility, he added, is already creating jobs and will augment the city’s tax revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He referred questions about licensing to the city manager and city planner— neither of whom responded to KQED’s requests for comment by press time.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Incarcerating farmworkers and nannies’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jonathan Montes Diaz, a 33-year-old California man detained at the Mesa Verde ICE Processing Center in Bakersfield, said he had first-hand experience of what he called the “poor infrastructure” at the California City facility when it was operating as a state prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s up there with some of the worst time I’ve been in prison,” said Montes Diaz, who served a criminal sentence there and said he did not ever want to go back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054617\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12054617\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/CoreCivicKQED3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/CoreCivicKQED3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/CoreCivicKQED3-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/CoreCivicKQED3-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The CoreCivic Inc. California City Immigration Processing Center in California City, California, in June 2025. \u003ccite>(Saul Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In April of 2023, a water line ruptured, cutting off drinking water and the\u003cbr>\nability to flush toilets. Montes Diaz recalls a couple of days, before portable toilets were installed, when prison staff issued plastic bags to inmates to relieve themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had it better than others,” he said. “I was the main baker and the little water we had was prioritized for the kitchen, so I was able to use the restroom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CDCR spokesperson Mary Xjimenez confirmed the break but said staff provided bottled water and portable toilets within 24 hours. She said CDCR “did not issue plastic bags and did not condone this use,” adding that CoreCivic, the building’s owner, carried out the repair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Montes Diaz said the warden at Mesa Verde told him late last week that some detainees would soon be transferred to the California City facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE did not respond to KQED’s questions, including whether it had inspected the facility prior to housing detainees there and why it was placing people at a facility that is so far not licensed to do business in California City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB103\">state law\u003c/a>, the California attorney general has authority to inspect conditions at privately-owned immigration detention facilities in California.[aside postID=news_12054322 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/NationalGuardLAAP.jpg']Nina Sheridan, a spokesperson for Attorney General Rob Bonta, said in an email that these reviews “remain especially critical in light of efforts by the Trump Administration to both eliminate federal oversight of conditions at immigration detention facilities and increase their inhumane campaign of deportation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added: “As we’ve shown in recent reports, conditions at these facilities are already substandard in a number of areas, failing to meet ICE’s own detention standards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, the federal government awarded CoreCivic a six-month, \u003ca href=\"https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_IDV_70CDCR25D00000010_7012\">$31 million contract \u003c/a>to prepare and reopen the facility. To date, $13.5 million of that has been spent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an emailed statement, an ICE spokesperson who would not identify themself said the agency has “an urgent operational need to house the historic number of arrests and removals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Expanding detention is “critical to restoring law and order,” the statement said, adding that ICE is working to “bring online over 60 new detention facilities, to include California City. These contracts ensure ICE has the resources and infrastructure required to detain individuals who violate our immigration laws and to carry out its enforcement mission effectively.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some residents of the desert community \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12046793/facility-in-california-city-expected-to-be-states-largest-migrant-detention-center\">told KQED\u003c/a> in early summer that they hoped that restarting the prison facility would bring new jobs to their struggling town. Others said, while they voted for President Donald Trump, they disagreed with ICE tactics of arresting non-criminals and breaking apart families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, ICE has had six detention centers in California, all of them privately-owned. The largest until now was Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego County, with \u003ca href=\"https://tracreports.org/reports/762/#:~:text=As%20of%20April%2014%2C%202025,these%20181%20authorized%20detention%20facilities.\">a contractual capacity of 1,358 beds\u003c/a>. These facilities are becoming increasingly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/news/local/2025/07/28/overcrowded-conditions-plague-otay-mesa-and-other-immigrant-detention-facilities\">overcrowded\u003c/a>, as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/03/trump-administration-daily-quota-immigration-arrests\">White House\u003c/a> has pushed agents to meet a goal of 3,000 arrests per day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE is currently detaining more than \u003ca href=\"https://tracreports.org/immigration/quickfacts/\">61,000 people\u003c/a> nationwide, up from 39,000 at the start of the year. Immigration detention is not a criminal sentence — it is civil detention while people await deportation or fight their cases in immigration court. Advocates argue that ICE detention is cruel and unnecessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Tuesday evening planning commission meeting in California City, advocates warned that once ICE facilities are opened, there’s growing pressure to fill them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ruiz, the ILRC attorney, told commissioners: “The decisions being made right now will impact this community for decades to come. Detention centers operate for decades, and we know that California City is better than that. California City deserves to be known as more than a prison town.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another speaker was United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta. The 95-year-old Kern County resident waited nearly 90 minutes for her turn at the microphone during public comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing at the podium, she called Trump’s mass detention and deportation plan a move toward authoritarianism, and decried the $45 billion in new Congressional funding for ICE detention “to incarcerate farmworkers and nannies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Are we going to fight back?” she asked the commissioners. “This is our test … You have to stand up to this prison system here in California City. You can do it. Si se puede.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CoreCivic, the Tennessee-based private prison company that owns and operates the facility, confirmed it has begun receiving ICE detainees but would not say when it started to do so. Lawyers for detained immigrants say they first heard last week that clients were being transferred from other locations to California City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are once again housing federal detainees to meet the immediate needs of our government partners,” CoreCivic spokesperson Ryan Gustin said in a statement. He added that the company was responding “to an immediate need from the federal government for safe, humane and appropriate housing and care for these individuals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054610\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12054610\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/CoreCivicKernCountyGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/CoreCivicKernCountyGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/CoreCivicKernCountyGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/CoreCivicKernCountyGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The CoreCivic, Inc. California City Immigration Processing Center stands in the Kern County desert awaiting reopening as a federal immigrant detention facility under contract with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in California City, California, on July 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yet immigrant rights advocates who oppose the facility claim CoreCivic is operating without proper permits and in defiance of a state law that \u003ca href=\"https://legiscan.com/CA/text/SB29/id/1651848\">requires \u003c/a>180 days’ public notice and two public meetings before a local government can issue a permit allowing a private company to run an immigration jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CoreCivic built the prison in the 1990s with a capacity of 2,300 inmates. It contracted first with the federal government and then with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, which operated it as a state prison. The state ended its contract in 2023 as part of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11949943/when-california-downsizes-prisons-incarcerated-people-are-shuffled-out-of-community-college-classes\">an effort to reduce incarceration.\u003c/a> The prison has sat empty since.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Significant public health and safety risks’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Grisel Ruiz, an attorney with the Immigrant Legal Resource Center in San Francisco, said CoreCivic still needs a city business license and a conditional use permit, arguing that an immigration detention center differs significantly from a long-term prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are operating unlawfully,” she told the California City Planning Commission at its meeting Tuesday. “We urge the Planning Commission to hold CoreCivic accountable to local municipal code and state law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054615\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12054615 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/CoreCivicKQED1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/CoreCivicKQED1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/CoreCivicKQED1-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/CoreCivicKQED1-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The CoreCivic Inc. California City Immigration Processing Center in California City, California, in June 2025. \u003ccite>(Saul Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ruiz was one of dozens of immigrant advocates, business owners, faith leaders and local residents who spoke in opposition to the project at the packed meeting on Tuesday night. Many called on the commission to shut down CoreCivic’s facility for operating without permits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chair David Brottlund said commissioners could not act on an issue unless staff presented them with an agenda item, and that he city council could overrule them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The five-member city council has not had a quorum to function for weeks, after two members stepped down and another has missed meetings. As a result, Mayor Marquette Hawkins said the council has not had a chance to discuss the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company has applied for a business license, but the application is still pending. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Nina Sheridan, a spokesperson for Attorney General Rob Bonta, said in an email that these reviews “remain especially critical in light of efforts by the Trump Administration to both eliminate federal oversight of conditions at immigration detention facilities and increase their inhumane campaign of deportation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added: “As we’ve shown in recent reports, conditions at these facilities are already substandard in a number of areas, failing to meet ICE’s own detention standards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, the federal government awarded CoreCivic a six-month, \u003ca href=\"https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_IDV_70CDCR25D00000010_7012\">$31 million contract \u003c/a>to prepare and reopen the facility. To date, $13.5 million of that has been spent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an emailed statement, an ICE spokesperson who would not identify themself said the agency has “an urgent operational need to house the historic number of arrests and removals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Expanding detention is “critical to restoring law and order,” the statement said, adding that ICE is working to “bring online over 60 new detention facilities, to include California City. These contracts ensure ICE has the resources and infrastructure required to detain individuals who violate our immigration laws and to carry out its enforcement mission effectively.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some residents of the desert community \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12046793/facility-in-california-city-expected-to-be-states-largest-migrant-detention-center\">told KQED\u003c/a> in early summer that they hoped that restarting the prison facility would bring new jobs to their struggling town. Others said, while they voted for President Donald Trump, they disagreed with ICE tactics of arresting non-criminals and breaking apart families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, ICE has had six detention centers in California, all of them privately-owned. The largest until now was Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego County, with \u003ca href=\"https://tracreports.org/reports/762/#:~:text=As%20of%20April%2014%2C%202025,these%20181%20authorized%20detention%20facilities.\">a contractual capacity of 1,358 beds\u003c/a>. These facilities are becoming increasingly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/news/local/2025/07/28/overcrowded-conditions-plague-otay-mesa-and-other-immigrant-detention-facilities\">overcrowded\u003c/a>, as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/03/trump-administration-daily-quota-immigration-arrests\">White House\u003c/a> has pushed agents to meet a goal of 3,000 arrests per day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE is currently detaining more than \u003ca href=\"https://tracreports.org/immigration/quickfacts/\">61,000 people\u003c/a> nationwide, up from 39,000 at the start of the year. Immigration detention is not a criminal sentence — it is civil detention while people await deportation or fight their cases in immigration court. Advocates argue that ICE detention is cruel and unnecessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Tuesday evening planning commission meeting in California City, advocates warned that once ICE facilities are opened, there’s growing pressure to fill them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ruiz, the ILRC attorney, told commissioners: “The decisions being made right now will impact this community for decades to come. Detention centers operate for decades, and we know that California City is better than that. California City deserves to be known as more than a prison town.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another speaker was United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta. The 95-year-old Kern County resident waited nearly 90 minutes for her turn at the microphone during public comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing at the podium, she called Trump’s mass detention and deportation plan a move toward authoritarianism, and decried the $45 billion in new Congressional funding for ICE detention “to incarcerate farmworkers and nannies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Are we going to fight back?” she asked the commissioners. “This is our test … You have to stand up to this prison system here in California City. You can do it. Si se puede.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003c!-- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ -->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal immigration agents are more routinely showing up at California medical facilities as the Trump administration ramps up deportations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They may come to the emergency room, bringing in someone who’s suffering a medical crisis while being detained. They may wait in the lobby, as agents did for two weeks\u003ca href=\"https://lapublicpress.org/2025/07/ice-agents-glendale-hospital-waiting-to-arrest-a-patient/\"> at an L.A.-area hospital \u003c/a>waiting for a woman to be discharged. Or they may even chase people inside, as federal agents did at a Southern California surgical center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sight of these agents — often armed and with covered faces — makes many wary and may keep people from seeking care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Existing hospital policies guide operations when law enforcement brings in a person under arrest, hospital officials say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is nothing new to hospitals,” said Lois Richardson, vice president and counsel at the California Hospital Association. “We get inmates, detainees, arrestees all the time, whether it’s police, sheriff, highway patrol, ICE, whatever it is.” The job for hospital workers remains to provide care, she added, and not to get involved in disputes over why a person is in custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031986\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031986\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/082420_healthcareworkers_AW_sized_04-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/082420_healthcareworkers_AW_sized_04-copy.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/082420_healthcareworkers_AW_sized_04-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/082420_healthcareworkers_AW_sized_04-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/082420_healthcareworkers_AW_sized_04-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/082420_healthcareworkers_AW_sized_04-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/082420_healthcareworkers_AW_sized_04-copy-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A hospital employee enters Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Oakland on Aug. 24, 2020. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yet immigration attorneys, advocates and health workers have expressed concerns over the handling of some of these cases, both by immigration officers and by some administrators at medical facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Specifically, they’re worried about the application of protocols like visitation rules, about threats to patients’ legal and privacy rights, and about risks to hospital workers themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a level of privacy that we owe to patients and their families, and that has just been completely demolished with all of the involvement of ICE coming into hospitals,” said Kate Mobeen, an ICU nurse at John Muir Medical Center in Concord. “It creates just a huge sense of fear, not only in our patient population, but in our employee population and our nurses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Patients’ rights, policies face new tests\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Sometimes, when ICE has shown up at medical facilities with a detained patient, the result has been conflicting messaging about the rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On July 29, ICE agents took a man to John Muir Medical Center in Concord because he suffered an unspecified medical emergency while being detained outside the Concord immigration court, according to Ali Saidi, an attorney and the director of Stand Together Contra Costa, a local rapid response and legal services organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043496\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043496\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SF-IMMIGRATION-PROTESTS-MD-12-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SF-IMMIGRATION-PROTESTS-MD-12-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SF-IMMIGRATION-PROTESTS-MD-12-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SF-IMMIGRATION-PROTESTS-MD-12-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protestors rally in the Mission District in San Francisco in opposition to the Trump Administration’s immigration policy and enforcement on June 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Saidi arrived at the hospital as part of the response network, he said hospital staff told him that he was not allowed to see the detained patient, but that the man’s family would be allowed. Then, when the man’s wife arrived, “The rules had somehow changed, and they said no family visit,” Saidi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement shared by the Contra Costa Immigrants Rights Alliance, the detained man’s wife, who asked to be identified only by her middle name, Maria, said that when she later talked to her husband, he told her that he was so terrified that he passed out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My family and I went to the emergency room and we asked to see him and talk to him to make sure he was OK,” Maria said in the statement. “The hospital staff would not let us see him, and they would not give us any information about what was happening to him. They wouldn’t even answer my questions.”[aside postID=news_12053380 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/75ACE4D9-068E-4167-9BD3-CFF3A0BE597B-2000x1335.jpg']John Muir officials would not comment on the incident, citing privacy laws. But in an email, Ben Drew, a spokesperson for the hospital, said general policy is that “If a law enforcement agency indicates that visitation presents a safety or security concern, [the hospital] may limit or deny visitation to protect our patients, staff, and visitors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saidi said that when the wife insisted on getting information about the man’s condition, hospital security called the police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We understand that emotions are high whenever a family member or friend is in the emergency department or hospital,” said Drew. “The hospital only involves local police in circumstances when a patient or visitor’s behavior becomes abusive, disruptive, or threatening, and cannot be resolved through our own security team.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saidi denied that the family was being disruptive, saying that conversations with hospital staff and administration were respectful and no voices were raised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The atmosphere in that emergency bay was something like I’ve never seen before in my career,” Saidi said. “There was a chilling effect. Everyone was averting their eyes. You could tell the staff felt bad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple emergency department nurses told Mobeen, a local California Nurses Association leader at John Muir, that ICE officers were “very aggressive with staff” and staff were afterwards “emotionally and physically upset” by what happened, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s horrifying to not be able to tell patients’ family members how they are, what their status is,” Mobeen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the issue, Mobeen added, is training. Staff were not given adequate training on how to respond to any kind of immigration enforcement action that may occur at the hospital, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drew, the spokesman for John Muir, countered that the hospital has given guidance on its longstanding law enforcement policy and answered multiple questions since January about what to do if ICE agents show up at their facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Limits for ICE access, sometimes murky\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Last month, immigration agents occupied the lobby of Dignity Health’s Glendale Memorial Hospital, even standing behind reception desks, \u003ca href=\"https://lapublicpress.org/2025/07/ice-agents-glendale-hospital-waiting-to-arrest-a-patient/\">as photos that circulated online showed.\u003c/a> Protestors gathered outside the hospital, hosting rallies and press conferences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They were all there because agents had previously brought in \u003ca href=\"https://abc7.com/post/immigrant-rights-activists-rally-presence-ice-contractors-glendale-hospital/17038487/\">Milagro Solis-Portillo\u003c/a>, an immigrant from El Salvador, for medical care following her detention. They spent 15 days in the hospital waiting for Solis-Portillo’s discharge before transferring her to another hospital and then taking her into custody, \u003ca href=\"https://lapublicpress.org/2025/07/woman-ice-stalked-at-two-socal-hospitals-is-now-in-federal-custody/\">according to local news reports\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053903\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053903\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/HealthCareICECalMatters2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/HealthCareICECalMatters2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/HealthCareICECalMatters2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/HealthCareICECalMatters2-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People stand on the stairs at an entrance of Dignity Health-Glendale Memorial Hospital in Glendale, on July 17, 2025. Activists have condemned the ongoing presence of ICE agents or contractors in the hospital lobby where a woman was recovering from a medical emergency while detained. \u003ccite>(Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.dignityhealth.org/socal/locations/glendalememorial/about-us/press-center/statement-from-glendale-memorial-hospital-regarding-ice-july-7-2025\">statement\u003c/a>, officials from Dignity Memorial Hospital said they could not legally prohibit law enforcement from being in public areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s true, say legal experts: Waiting rooms and lobbies are considered public spaces in hospitals. But agents cannot move through hospitals without limits. Law enforcement officials are not allowed to search for people in exam rooms or other private spaces without a federal court warrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When agents bring in someone who is in their custody and needs medical care, the application of the law can be more murky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Richardson at the hospital association, how far an agent can go into treatment areas with a detained patient may be decided on a case-by-case basis. In cases where a detained patient is struggling or resisting, that patient may need guarding, she explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if law enforcement officers do go inside exam rooms, they may hear medical information while on guard. But that isn’t necessarily a privacy violation, according to federal rules. The HIPAA Privacy Rule, the law that sets privacy standards for medical information, \u003ca href=\"https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/guidance/incidental-uses-and-disclosures/index.html\">has a provision\u003c/a> that allows for “incidental disclosures” of information as long as “reasonable safeguards” are applied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The hospital will, and the doctor will make reasonable attempts to protect the patient’s privacy.” “What is reasonable is going to depend, again, on what’s wrong with the patient, how the patient is behaving, the nature of the circumstances,” Richardson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HIPAA protects the disclosure of medical records, which include names, addresses and social security numbers along with health conditions. State law also requires health facilities to protect this information. According to \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/sites/all/files/agweb/pdfs/immigration/healthcare-guidance.pdf\">guidance from the attorney general’s office\u003c/a>, health facilities should consider a patient’s immigration status confidential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, some disclosures are required if law enforcement can prove lawful custody or show an appropriate warrant. A federal court warrant signed by a judge grants law enforcement immediate access to information or to search a particular area, while an ICE administrative warrant does not require immediate compliance.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Health workers in ‘precarious’ \u003cstrong>situations \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Health facilities generally direct frontline workers not to engage with immigration agents, but rather to immediately contact security or management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One particular incident at a Southern California surgery center stands out, in conversation with health workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On July 8, federal agents targeted three landscapers who had parked outside of the Ontario Advanced Surgical Center. They chased one of the men inside on foot, according to a felony criminal complaint filed against two health care workers in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In videos of the incident posted online, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PW6Bysinn0\">masked agent wearing a vest labeled “POLICE ICE” \u003c/a>on the back holds a weeping man by the shoulder inside the center while several workers in scrubs stand by. At multiple points in the video workers ask the officer for identification; one worker says, “this is a private business.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two workers, Danielle Davila and Jose Ortega, tell the officer to leave. Davila moves between the officer and the man, saying “Get your hands off of him. You don’t even have a warrant.”[aside postID=news_12052815 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/gettyimages-91547950_slide-4d6100270cc91128d1beb27eca778a6dcd952acd-1020x680.jpg']Ortega puts an arm between Davila and the officer and says “You have no proper identification.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officer says to both workers “You touched a federal agent.” Then Davila responds, “I’m not touching you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davila and Ortega were later charged with two felony counts of assaulting a federal officer and conspiring to prevent a federal officer from performing their duties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week the felony charges were dismissed and both Davila and Ortega pleaded not guilty to a subsequent misdemeanor assault charge. A spokesperson for the U.S. attorney’s office declined to comment on the charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davila’s defense attorney Oliver Cleary said his client believed she was doing the right thing by asking for credentials and a warrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can’t just come in where people are getting medical care and whisk them away,” Cleary said. “She didn’t know who these people were. They didn’t tell her who they were, and as far as she knew this was a patient of the clinic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carlos Juárez, Ortega’s defense attorney, said arresting and charging health workers with crimes for asking to see a warrant and identification puts them in a “precarious” and “dangerous situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They did what they needed to do and what they had a right to do,” Juárez said. “What I hope is it doesn’t have a chilling effect on other health care workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Workers say additional training can help\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Around the state, health workers say they’d like to see management provide additional guidance on how to respond to such scenarios if they were to play out in their workplace. Some workers are providing training themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adriana Rugeles-Ortiz, a licensed vocational nurse at Kaiser Permanente Modesto Medical Center, has been leading “Know Your Rights” sessions at her hospital and in her community as part of her union, SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West. She said some of her coworkers have expressed anxiety over some of the situations they’ve seen play out in other hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because of my involvement with all the training that we have done to the workers and to the community, personally, I do feel prepared. 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But in an email, Ben Drew, a spokesperson for the hospital, said general policy is that “If a law enforcement agency indicates that visitation presents a safety or security concern, [the hospital] may limit or deny visitation to protect our patients, staff, and visitors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saidi said that when the wife insisted on getting information about the man’s condition, hospital security called the police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We understand that emotions are high whenever a family member or friend is in the emergency department or hospital,” said Drew. “The hospital only involves local police in circumstances when a patient or visitor’s behavior becomes abusive, disruptive, or threatening, and cannot be resolved through our own security team.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saidi denied that the family was being disruptive, saying that conversations with hospital staff and administration were respectful and no voices were raised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The atmosphere in that emergency bay was something like I’ve never seen before in my career,” Saidi said. “There was a chilling effect. Everyone was averting their eyes. You could tell the staff felt bad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple emergency department nurses told Mobeen, a local California Nurses Association leader at John Muir, that ICE officers were “very aggressive with staff” and staff were afterwards “emotionally and physically upset” by what happened, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s horrifying to not be able to tell patients’ family members how they are, what their status is,” Mobeen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the issue, Mobeen added, is training. Staff were not given adequate training on how to respond to any kind of immigration enforcement action that may occur at the hospital, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drew, the spokesman for John Muir, countered that the hospital has given guidance on its longstanding law enforcement policy and answered multiple questions since January about what to do if ICE agents show up at their facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Limits for ICE access, sometimes murky\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Last month, immigration agents occupied the lobby of Dignity Health’s Glendale Memorial Hospital, even standing behind reception desks, \u003ca href=\"https://lapublicpress.org/2025/07/ice-agents-glendale-hospital-waiting-to-arrest-a-patient/\">as photos that circulated online showed.\u003c/a> Protestors gathered outside the hospital, hosting rallies and press conferences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They were all there because agents had previously brought in \u003ca href=\"https://abc7.com/post/immigrant-rights-activists-rally-presence-ice-contractors-glendale-hospital/17038487/\">Milagro Solis-Portillo\u003c/a>, an immigrant from El Salvador, for medical care following her detention. They spent 15 days in the hospital waiting for Solis-Portillo’s discharge before transferring her to another hospital and then taking her into custody, \u003ca href=\"https://lapublicpress.org/2025/07/woman-ice-stalked-at-two-socal-hospitals-is-now-in-federal-custody/\">according to local news reports\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053903\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053903\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/HealthCareICECalMatters2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/HealthCareICECalMatters2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/HealthCareICECalMatters2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/HealthCareICECalMatters2-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People stand on the stairs at an entrance of Dignity Health-Glendale Memorial Hospital in Glendale, on July 17, 2025. 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Law enforcement officials are not allowed to search for people in exam rooms or other private spaces without a federal court warrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When agents bring in someone who is in their custody and needs medical care, the application of the law can be more murky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Richardson at the hospital association, how far an agent can go into treatment areas with a detained patient may be decided on a case-by-case basis. In cases where a detained patient is struggling or resisting, that patient may need guarding, she explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if law enforcement officers do go inside exam rooms, they may hear medical information while on guard. But that isn’t necessarily a privacy violation, according to federal rules. The HIPAA Privacy Rule, the law that sets privacy standards for medical information, \u003ca href=\"https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/guidance/incidental-uses-and-disclosures/index.html\">has a provision\u003c/a> that allows for “incidental disclosures” of information as long as “reasonable safeguards” are applied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The hospital will, and the doctor will make reasonable attempts to protect the patient’s privacy.” “What is reasonable is going to depend, again, on what’s wrong with the patient, how the patient is behaving, the nature of the circumstances,” Richardson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HIPAA protects the disclosure of medical records, which include names, addresses and social security numbers along with health conditions. State law also requires health facilities to protect this information. 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