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‘It’s like a game of Whac-A-Mole’: How Trump’s ICE raids knocked Los Angeles to its knees  Politico Relentless immigration raids are changing California’s way of life  BBC Ice activity on historic Japanese site evokes painful legacy of incarceration  The Guardian Immigration raids have invaded not just L.A. but also its psyche  Los Angeles Times Teen activists and neighborhood groups are leading the resistance against …

Border Patrol agents raided a Home Depot and other locations in Sacramento on Thursday in what appeared to be a heavily orchestrated operation intended to send a message that the Trump administration would not back down on immigration enforcement, despite legal blockades. While the raids took place miles from the state Capitol grounds, Greg Bovino, the U.S. Border chief of …

By Wendy Fry and Sergio Olmos, CalMatters This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Border Patrol agents moved their operations northward Thursday to California’s capital, targeting a Home Depot in Sacramento, this time more than 500 miles away from the border.  On Friday, a judge in Los Angeles ordered federal immigration agents to temporarily stop …

The Trump administration asked an appeals court Monday to immediately allow immigration agents to resume unfettered raids across Southern California, arguing that a federal judge’s order barring unconstitutional stops and arrests is akin to a “straitjacket” on its operations. The order granted Friday night by U.S. District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong “is inflicting irreparable harm by preventing the Executive from …

President Donald Trump’s “border czar,” Tom Homan, is increasingly becoming the face of the White House’s mass deportation effort as the onetime acting ICE chief shifts into a more overtly political role. That politicization was on full display on Saturday night when Homan made a speech at at Turning Point USA conference, a Trump-aligned conservative youth group run by Charlie …