Memo Torres breaks down ICE-related news in Southern California today. Below, you'll find links and references to everything discussed in the video, allowing you to take a closer look at each topic.
It’s day 61.
ICE RAIDS
- Yesterday, August 4th in Camarillo: Volunteers VCdefensa report that a person detained in the immigration office in Camarillo was taken to the hospital in an ambulance, followed by ICE agents. Apparently, 2 or 3 agents entered St. John’s Hospital.
- Still staging at Terminal Island: Vehicles are seen using the same license plate numbers.
- South LA on Florence and Compton: Agents seen staging early morning.
- Huntington Beach Home Depot: Several agents were filmed raiding the parking lot.
- From witnesses. They came in contact with the laborers, asked for their i.d., only in English. When the laborer would not produce, they were quickly taken into a vehicle. Some laborers were searched, others were not. One laborer ran into HD with an agent chasing him. We do not know if he escaped.
- One work truck was left abandoned.
- Fountain Valley: Agents raided Magnolia Car Wash, which had been raided once before.
OTHER NEWS
- Settlement Prohibits ICE Officers’ Use of Deceptive Tactics: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers are prohibited from identifying as state or local law enforcement and cannot engage in ruses that misrepresent their governmental identity or purpose.
- The agreement applies to ICE's L.A. Field Office, which covers the counties of Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, Riverside, Ventura, Santa Barbara, and San Luis Obispo.
- The lawsuit was filed in 2020, on behalf of an individual, Osny Sorto-Vazquez Kidd, and two community organizations that represent the class, the Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice (ICIJ) and the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA).
- The settlement prohibits ICE officers from using deceptive ruses to enter a home or when asking a resident to exit their home. This includes:
- Identifying themselves as state or local police or any other non-federal agency.
- Falsely stating they are conducting a criminal investigation or looking for someone else.
- Conducting probation or parole checks
- Claiming there is a safety or legal problem with a vehicle.
- The agreement further requires that ICE officers in the Los Angeles Field Office wear visible identifiers on their clothing prominently identifying them as “ICE” whenever they are wearing any “POLICE” identifier.
- ICE officers are also required to document certain information when making home arrests, and ICE must provide records of home arrests conducted by the L.A. Field Office to the class counsel for continued monitoring. This monitoring will remain in place for three years.
AT L.A. TACO
- Fontana Family Trapped In Home After Stalking and Harassment from Federal Agents
- ICE and CBP claimed “Roberto Jose Reyes Castro, a dangerous criminal illegal alien from Nicaragua with a criminal history including assault with a deadly weapon, exhibiting a deadly weapon, and disturbing the peace.”
- The criminal history referred to in ICE’s statement concerns a case where Castro was falsely accused last year by a neighbor of threatening him with a knife. He was held in jail for six days, and his case was dropped after he proved his innocence.
