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Daily Memo: The 15th Death In ICE Detention and ICE is Slowly Escalating

ICE’s slow increase in operations is now averaging about 30 kidnappings per week in Southern California.

Daily Memo: Hospitalizations, Car Crashes, and Kavanaugh Stops Continue with ICE

ICE has continued targeting courthouses, jails, sending folks to hospitals still, crashing their vehicles, and performing Kavanaugh stops still, which, if you’re still unfamiliar with the term, are basically Supreme Court-endorsed racial profiling stops.

Daily Memo: ICE Is Ramping Up Operations With New Vehicles and Coachella Valley Is Being Targeted This Week

From Tuesday through today, L.A. TACO has confirmed at least 23 people have been taken by ICE.

Daily Memo: ICE Targets a Street Vendor in Santee Alley and More

Over the weekend, ICE was mostly up the coast and down towards San Diego. Today, we saw two more people get taken from their ISAP check-in in Downtown L.A., and in Santee Alley, we saw at least four agents target a food vendor and take him away. ICE also took a young woman in Indio today and was again scouting in Chula Vista and National City. 

Daily Memo: ICE Activity Has Doubled Since Last Week

At least 31 people were taken this week. 30 by ICE and one by CBP. All numbers are based on L.A. TACO’s reporting; the true number is assumed to be much higher. This is the minimum number of detainments.

Daily Memo: ICE Surge In Southern California With Nearly 20 Reported Incidents in One Day

ICE came out in full force today with almost 20 incidents, a number we haven’t seen since Border Patrol was still around, but ICE just did that on their own today, taking at least 12 people that we could confirm. ICE was everywhere, including Carpinteria, Ventura, San Gabriel, Glendale, Long Beach, L.A., Cathedral City, Rancho Cucamonga, Vista, Santa Ana, and especially heavy in Fontana and San Diego.

Daily Memo: ICE Kidnapped Several Fathers In Front of Their Children

ICE is still active. We’re seeing a couple of incidents on average on the weekends and an average of around seven incidents each day during the week right now, and while the quantity may be lower, the quality of these kidnappings remains brutal, inhuman, and unjust.

Daily Memo: 10 ICE Vehicles Used To Take One Person At Rancho Cucamonga Courthouse

At least 15 total were taken via targeted arrests by ICE agents this week in Southern California.

March 13, 2026

Daily Memo: While ICE Lays Low, They’re Still Active While Building Up Its Fleet, Offices, and Detention Centers

ICE activity still continues at a slower pace, but it has not disappeared. This past weekend was a rare, quiet one. What we’re seeing is that ICE is laying low, sticking to courthouses, jails, and check-ins, especially from their special ISAP unit.

Daily Memo: They Met in ICE Detention. Despite a Language Barrier, These Women’s Bond Helped Them Survive

They found a way to spend the nights talking, developing a friendship that got them both through their ordeal. Tania says she saw Masuma as a motherly, grandmotherly figure who took care of her, and Masuma says she wouldn’t have survived without Tania.