California, ICE and immigration raids
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Large-scale immigration raids at packinghouses and fields in California are threatening businesses that supply much of the country’s food, farm bureaus say.
Now the senior U.S. senator from California, Alex Padilla’s career in public service started amid intense fervor over immigration in the early 1990s. Now, it comes full circle.
One of the Republican party’s most famous members has some thoughts about what is currently happening in the United States.
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum urged U.S. officials on Friday not to target individuals attending a Gold Cup soccer match in Los Angeles between the Mexican national team and the Dominican Republic.
“Last Thursday, ICE entered our city, and provoked the city, by chasing people through Home Depots and car washes and showing up at schools. And today, showing up at emergency rooms and homeless shelters,” Bass said at the Thursday press conference.
The White House confirmed Wednesday that 330 immigrants had been detained by ICE in five days, as a result of raids spanning businesses across Southern California: two Home Depot stores, a doughnut shop, a car wash and agricultural fields along the Central Coast and in the San Joaquin Valley.
At one middle school ceremony, the principal announced he had families stationed outside to alert if him if ICE showed up.
Family members and onlookers were seen filming and opposing the raid, with one man standing in front of a van, not letting it pass.