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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.
California’s Shadowy ICE Holding Rooms Detained at Least 17,351 People Last Year
During the first year of the Trump administration's second term, at least 140,000 people nationwide were detained in these rooms—a steep jump from the 80,000 people held from September 2023 to the end of Biden's term.
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.
Who Is and Who Is Not ICE at U.S. Airports
Travelers in the U.S. have been flooding us with messages concerned about ICE at airports, questioning or mistaking other agencies for ICE. Here is a quick visual guide.
Trump Moves to Leverage ICE Deployment at Airports Amid DHS Funding Dispute
Democrat Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut told reporters that the threat to “use ICE agents as a general kind of militia or state police is contrary to the Constitution, the law of the United States, and common sense.”
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.
Indigenous Mayan Teen From Chiapas Is Youngest to Die in ICE Custody
19-year-old Royer Perez-Jimenez appears to be the youngest person to die in ICE custody since the Trump Administration took office. Compared to the same period last year, the death rate in ICE custody has tripled.
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.
Border Patrol Intercepts Vessel Holding 23 Migrants West of San Clemente Island
"Our civil liberties do not go away just because the federal government is doing their job in a way that some of us might not like," Mayor Steve Knoblock said.
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.
