Family says ICE agents smashed car window in seizing Guatemalan man who’s seeking asylum

Day Around The Bay: Officials Introduce Bill Prohibiting Ice From California Schools Without Warrant

Local:Assemblymember Al Muratsuchi, a Democrat representing Torrance, has introduced the California Safe Haven Schools Act, which would prohibit California schools from allowing immigration officers on campus without a warrant or approval from school officials. The bill also dictates that officers who are allowed on school campuses be restricted to areas where no students are present. [Mercury News]Pleasant Hill police were investigating a poten…

ICE dispels rumors about viral video showing agents smashing window to arrest illegal

Immigration and Customs Enforcement is dispelling rumors swirling around online after a video showing an arrest where an agent smashed in a car window went viral.

ICE Agent Smashes Immigrant's Car Window While He Waits For Lawyer In Harrowing Video

A Guatemalan family—in the United States under legal asylum status—is seeking answers from the Trump administration's Department of Homeland Security (DHS) after a violent interaction with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). On Monday, ICE agents pulled over a Toyota driven by Juan Francisco Méndez, 29, as he and his wife, Marilu Domingo Ortiz, traveled to a dental appointment in New Bedford, Massachusetts. The couple called their lawyer…

How US Customs crackdown landed on Sonoma County man’s Guatemalan relative

The man’s troubling experience at Los Angeles International Airport shares threads with other stories that have emerged from recent travelers into the U.S.

Conspiracy theorist wrongly identified as federal agent in viral window-smashing video

Social media posts have been falsely claiming that a man with connections to Arizona and far-right militias was the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who smashed a car’s window with an axe to apprehend a Guatemalan immigrant. But that man has not been hired by ICE and is currently in Oklahoma spreading conspiracy theories there. Michael “Lewis Arthur” Meyer is the founder of a group known as Veterans on Patrol which has been involved wi…

Afraid of church: Some immigrant faithful stay away on Sunday

ATLANTA — In late January, just after President Donald Trump was sworn into office for his second term, a Honduran father of three was apprehended by immigration officials outside the entrance of his church in Tucker, Georgia.