Overview

• ICE has expanded its deportation directive in California to include noncriminal immigrants, green-card holders and U.S. citizens under what the administration calls its largest enforcement effort ever.
• Recent operations in Los Angeles and Oakland continue to detain sole household earners at homes and worksites, directly threatening family incomes and rental stability.
• Some landlords and real estate agents have begun using the specter of ICE intervention to coerce or evict immigrant renters without due legal process.
• Fear of deportation is deterring tenants from requesting repairs, reporting unsafe conditions or appearing in housing court, weakening the impact of state tenant-protection laws.
• California legal aid and advocacy groups are tracking growing patterns of intimidation and mounting legal challenges, even as sanctuary state policies limit local cooperation with ICE.