Overview

• Federal data show ICE and CBP have detained 2,792 undocumented immigrants in the Los Angeles area since early June under an expanded interior enforcement operation
• Sens. Alex Padilla and Cory Booker introduced the Visible Act on July 8 to ban non-medical face coverings and mandate visible agency identification for all immigration officers
• Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, Pico Rivera, Montebello, Monterey Park, Culver City, Santa Monica and West Hollywood joined an ACLU lawsuit alleging plain-clothes agents have failed to show warrants and obscured their identities
• Ten people are facing attempted murder and firearms charges after a coordinated July 4 ambush on the Prairieland Detention Center in Texas wounded a local officer
• The ICEBlock app has surpassed 750,000 downloads as community groups use real-time alerts to warn immigrant neighborhoods of federal enforcement actions