Major Border Patrol raids have been happening in the California Central Valley at a scale that some life-long Bakersfield residents say hasn’t happened before, reports Sergio Olmos for CalMatters.
“They were stopping cars at random, asking people for papers,” said United Farm Worker's Antonio De Loera-Brust of what appears to be the first large-scale raid in the state since Trump's election.
https://calmatters.org/economy/2025/01/kern-county-immigration-sweep/
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When a woman refused a Border Patrol demand to get out of a vehicle at a gas station, after the driver was detained on his way out of the store, an officer from another agency "parked his vehicle behind the woman, blocking her car... it wasn’t until the local Univision station showed up that Border Patrol agents backed up their car and allowed the woman to leave."
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