There’s been an uptick in ICE arrests in the Bay Area, immigration attorneys warn

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 Lisa Knox, co-executive director at California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice. . . ." 

Deputy Public Defender Francisco Ugarte "called the recent enforcement a `surge,' and compared it to ICE operations in 2007 and 2008, when agents from around the country came to the Bay Area, identified targets, and then `snatched people up.'”