NPR's Ximena Bustillo reports that agriculture employers and some Republicans want to expand a visa program that brings foreign workers to U.S. farms. "Dozens of farmers — including dairy farmers and blueberry, apple and peach growers — and lobbying powerhouses like the American Farm Bureau Federation took to Washington this month to advocate for their labor needs."
As election day nears, ICE operations appear to be on the rise. Several attorneys report that several ICE arrests across the Bay Area "reflect increasingly aggressive immigration enforcement." "Bay Area `rapid response' hotlines monitoring immigration arrests have seen an uptick in reports since this weekend, said
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Check out this Catch-22! "Do what a federal court orders and break the law. Ignore what a federal court orders and also break the law. That’s the losing deal that a migrant faced when a federal court told him he had to stay in Oklahoma, then federal prosecutors
LA Taco reports that "[a]nother week of the latest ICE surge in Southern California is passing, and we’re not surprised it didn’t go by without brutality and injuries. In Orange County, ICE operations led to at least two hospital visits; while in Los Angeles, ICE agents