Wendy Fry
California Divide Reporter-
A new immigration detention center has opened in the Central Valley just north of Bakersfield. ICE has already begun to transfer immigrant detainees to the new site, which was formerly a state prison operated by the GEO Group. -
California now has eight ICE detention centers. Two opened since President Trump took office in 2025, with both operating in former state prisons.
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A federal judge rules that the Border Patrol again broke the rules in California immigration sweeps, saying agents acted “without considering or complying with law Congress enacted.” -
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s visited the U.S.-Mexico border near San Diego as polls show declining support for President Trump’s immigration policies since the killing of protesters in Minneapolis. -
In the four counties where Immigration and Customs Enforcement has detention facilities, only one county health department conducts the kind of inspections that were explicitly allowed under a 2024 California law. -
The U.S. Supreme Court lifted limits on immigration sweeps in Southern California, overturning a lower court ruling that prohibited agents from stopping people based on their appearance. -
Unauthorized immigrants can be deported quickly if they’re detained near the border. The Trump administration wants to expand expedited removal inland. -
‘You just can’t walk up to people with brown skin and say give me your papers,’ a federal judge told Border Patrol attorneys at a hearing challenging recent immigration sweeps.
