Overview

• U.S. Army veteran George Retes was pepper-sprayed, tear-gassed and detained without access to counsel during the July 10 ICE raid on Glass House Farms despite identifying himself as a citizen.
• Federal prosecutors charged Yuriana Julia Pelaez Calderon with conspiracy and making false statements after investigators determined her alleged abduction by masked ICE officers was fabricated to solicit donations.
• Border Patrol agents arrested 11 individuals in a July 17 operation at a Sacramento Home Depot parking lot, including a man his wife says is a U.S. citizen.
• A federal appeals court refused DHS’s bid to lift a preliminary injunction barring appearance-based stops, reinforcing judges’ orders against racial profiling in interior operations.
• Los Angeles and San Francisco sheriffs cited California’s sanctuary laws in rejecting DOJ requests for inmate citizenship data and pledged transfers only on federal judicial warrants.