Overview

• Since early June, ICE and CBP have detained 2,792 undocumented immigrants in the Los Angeles area, Homeland Security figures show.
• Several Southern California cities joined an ACLU lawsuit challenging plainclothes raids, warrantless arrests and masked agents, while Mayor Bass and Governor Newsom seek an injunction to halt the operations.
• Senators Alex Padilla and Cory Booker introduced the Visible Act on July 8 to ban masked enforcement and require officers to clearly display names and agency affiliation.
• An Independence Day ambush at a Texas ICE facility wounded an officer and led to ten indictments, part of a 700% surge in attacks on immigration agents this year.
• Community groups are using the ICEBlock app, downloaded over 750,000 times, as ICE prepares to expand under a $75 billion appropriation for 10,000 new agents and 100,000 additional detention beds.