Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Colectivo Mariposa 805 is a community-led organization giving mutual aid to families affected by immigration enforcement activity. The group is based in Santa Maria and serves over 70 families in the cities of Santa Maria and Guadalupe, and the unincorporated community of Nipomo.

On California’s Central Coast, Congressman Salud Carbajal is raising new concerns about local Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations. Carbajal recently toured the ICE processing facility in Santa Maria.

SLO County Supervisors has accepted a more than $300,000 grant from the Department of Homeland Security. The funding drew public opposition over the department’s immigration enforcement policies.

The City of Goleta passed a resolution urging federal lawmakers to advocate for immigrants who live and work in the city. The move follows recent immigration raids that shook nearby communities on the Central Coast.

New details are emerging from last week’s immigration raid on the Central Coast. A U.S. Army veteran says he was wrongfully detained and violently arrested by federal immigration agents, even though he is a U.S. citizen.

Jaime Alanis Garcia worked for the cannabis grower “Glass House Farms” for about 10 years. During the raid, he fell 30 feet and suffered a broken neck, fractured skull and a severed artery.

In Ojai, city leaders have passed a new policy aimed at protecting vulnerable residents and strengthening public trust. The Ojai Care Policy is designed to safeguard trans individuals, undocumented immigrants and other marginalized groups.

An annual celebration of Oaxacan culture on the Central Coast has been canceled this year. Organizers say immigration raids have left local indigenous communities feeling unsafe.

After being deported to Mexico two years ago, Goleta community member Juana Flores is now back on the Central Coast — and new legislation introduced by a…

On the same day Americans demonstrated across the country to protest migrant family separations, hundreds of protesters gathered in a Santa Maria…