Overview

• Since early June, ICE and CBP have detained 2,792 undocumented migrants in Los Angeles as operations continue unabated.
• Senators Alex Padilla and Cory Booker introduced a bill to ban masks for immigration agents and require clear display of agency identification.
• Department of Homeland Security figures show assaults on immigration officers are up nearly 700% this year, including a July 4 ambush in Texas that wounded a police officer.
• The White House has defended the intensified raids and blamed inflammatory Democratic rhetoric for inspiring violence against federal agents.
• Community organizers have adopted tools like the ICEBlock app, which has been downloaded 750,000 times to warn users of real-time enforcement activity.