26 h. ago Disabled child seized by ICE agents outside LA school in horrific case of mistaken identity

A special needs student was wrongly detained by the ICE agents while attending an orientation at Arleta High School in Los Angeles, leaving public officials and local parents petrified and furious.

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4 d. ago Bill Maher and Dr. Phil spar over the TV personality going on Trump’s ICE raids: ‘Literally separating families’

Fellow panelist and ESPN host Stephen A. Smith took issue with so-called ‘Trojan horse’ raids at Home Depot: ‘Different than what they originally advertised’

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4 d. ago Spain’s economy is the envy of Europe, but the plight of its strawberry pickers tells another story | Tone Sutterud

Its migrant-powered GDP growth is lauded. If only the people who pick its fruit could be treated with dignity and respectI used to enjoy being able to buy strawberries in the supermarket in winter. But that was before I saw first-hand where most of the UK’s imported berries come from. The working conditions of migrant farm workers in southern Spain were something I never thought I would see in a European country. While others flounder, the Spanish economy is booming, in large part thanks to unusually high migration levels – but too many of the people propping it up are being treated disgracefully.At the end of Huelva’s berry-growing season in April, I sat having lunch at a roadside restaurant in town, as an endless stream of trailers with fruit logos on the side thundered past. At peak times, 2,000 of these lorries leave Huelva every day, laden with berries destined for the European market. More than 60% of the strawberries British people eat in winter were grown in the polytunnels ...

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6 d. ago Border patrol agents hide in rental truck during ‘Trojan Horse’ raid outside LA Home Depot

The company said they were not made aware that its trucks would be used in the operation

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7 d. ago Trump’s agriculture secretary doubles down on suggestion people should work on farms to avoid losing Medicaid

Comments come after Secretary of Agriculture suggested last month that Medicaid recipients and automation would replace undocumented farm workers facing mass deportation

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7 d. ago ICE arrests dropped in July as backlash to raids and mass deportation plans stalled operations

Arrests by immigration agents fell, but daily removals were up in July, data shows

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8 d. ago Trump on Hispanic farm workers: ‘They don’t get a bad back, because if they get a bad back, they die’

Donald Trump has raised eyebrows with comments he made about farm laborers during a phone interview with CNBC.

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8 d. ago US citizens jailed in LA Ice raids speak out: ‘They came ready to attack’

Exclusive: Andrea Velez and Adrian Martinez recount their capture by immigration officers and its effects on their livesAs two masked men dragged her into an unmarked SUV, Andrea Velez tried to focus on details she might later remember – one man’s red shirt, the car’s leather seats, a black backpack inside.At 9.20am on 24 June in downtown Los Angeles, the 32-year-old was heading into work at a footwear company when the men in gator masks jumped out of their car and started chasing vendors and other people on the street, she recalled. As people fled, Velez froze and held onto her bag. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago US citizen and Army veteran spent three days in jail after being arrested in California immigration raid

George Retes, 25, who works as a security guard for the Glass House Farms in Camarillo, was arrested last Thursday and released three days later without being charged with a crime

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4 w. ago Ice activity on historic Japanese site evokes painful legacy of incarceration

Descendants of Terminal Island’s Japanese community see parallels between the second world war and Ice raids todayJohn Tonai was enraged when he learned that a human-made island in San Pedro Bay was being used as a staging ground for the workplace raids unfolding across Los Angeles.To Tonai, Terminal Island isn’t just one of the country’s busiest container ports. It’s the site of a small fishing village where his parents and thousands of other Japanese immigrants helped establish California’s tuna-canning industry. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago More than 360 arrested after ICE raid at California marijuana farms

Federal authorities say the the raids are one of the largest operations since Trump took office in January

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last month Daughter’s heartbreaking message to Mexican mother over ICE raids

Farmers have warned that ICE raids could damage their businesses and threaten the US food supply

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last month California professor accused of assault after he was ‘kidnapped’ during ICE protests at cannabis farm raid

Witnesses says masked agents tackled Jonathan Anthony Caravello as he moved tear gas canister from wheelchair

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last month US farm workers on Ice raids in the fields: ‘hunted like animals’

In the latest installment of a series on undocumented workers, farm workers explain how fear has ripped through their communities after raidsUndocumented builders face exploitation amid Trump raidsUndocumented farm workers feel they’re being “hunted like animals”, they told the Guardian, as Donald Trump’s administration ramps up its crackdown on immigration.Raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) have caused workers to lose hours and income, and forced them into hiding at home, according to interviews. Continue reading...

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last month US undocumented farm workers feel ‘hunted like animals’ amid Trump’s immigration raids

Ice raids have caused workers to lose hours and income, and forced them into hiding at home, according to interviewsUndocumented builders face exploitation amid Trump raidsUndocumented farm workers feel they’re being “hunted like animals”, they told the Guardian, as Donald Trump’s administration ramps up its crackdown on immigration.Raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) have caused workers to lose hours and income, and forced them into hiding at home, according to interviews. Continue reading...

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