Immigration advocates and attorneys say the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office has actively sought loopholes in California’s sanctuary law to help federal immigration officials arrest undocumented immigrants — raising questions about the law’s efficacy. The law, passed last year as Senate Bill 54, prohibits local law enforcement agencies from cooperating with federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to detain undocumented immigrants, though certain offenses give l

ICE was created in 2003 and there are multiple examples of how this agency has gone rouge. In Delano, young children lost their mother and father because of the wrongful actions by ICE agents; they're targeting hardworking individuals at their places of employment; they're unlawfully detaining and holding Americans in custody, and they are undermining our judicial system by conducting arrests at courthouses preventing immigrants with valid legal claims from pursuing legal rem

Sarah Reyes, former member of the California Assembly, took to social media to urge Valley residents to speak out against the policy, pointing out the region's immigrant community and also its past ties to internment camps. "Then, they called Japanese citizens the enemy. They said they were going to destroy America. Fast forward to today, you hear the same rhetoric coming out of the administration about these undocumented residents," she said. "I don't think it's a stretch to