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A week earlier, some lawmakers were denied entry to the Adelanto ICE Processing Center, where detainees from recent raids are being held.
As ICE raids continue in Southern California neighborhoods, some undocumented gardeners still work even as they worry about being deported. Citizens in the trade also fear getting mistakenly swept up in enforcement.
After a week of ICE seemingly targeting dairy farms, California produce farms and a meat packing plant in Nebraska, President Donald Trump is reportedly ordering the Department of Homeland Security to exclude farms from immigration raids.
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NBC Los Angeles on MSN30 mayors in Southern California call for end of ICE raids in solidarity with LAEven in the cities that haven't been raided by federal agents, ICE is there psychologically, some mayors said.
More than 30 million Californians across the state could see their electric bills go up to pay for the devastating Eaton fire as officials scramble to shore up a state wildfire fund that could be wiped out by damage claims. One early estimate places fire losses from the Eaton fire at $24 billion to $45 billion.
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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.
NBC’s Jacob Soboroff reports from Ventura County, where ICE raids have reached California’s agricultural heartland, sparking fear among farm workers and their families. Advocates say the enforcement actions are keeping parents from schools and homes,
Todd Lyons, the head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, defended his tactics last week week against criticism that authorities are being too heavy-handed. He has said ICE is averaging about 1,600 arrests per day and that the agency has arrested “dangerous criminals.” It is an assertion many lawmakers and city leaders decry.
The California Farm Bureau said raids are having a "disruptive effect" on the agricultural economy, but expressed hope Trump will limit them.