Voice of OC (https://voiceofoc.org/tag/immigrant-rights/)
Advocates want state Attorney General Kamala Harris to block federal access to the controversial CalGang database out of fears that the Trump administration will use it to deport unauthorized immigrants who’ve been erroneously labeled as gang members.
Immigrant-rights advocates throughout Orange County have begun mobilizing to prepare one of the nation’s most vulnerable immigrant communities for what will assuredly be a harsher stance from Washington D.C.
Activists trying to stop detention of undocumented immigrants at the Santa Ana Jail had started a hunger strike on Monday. By Thursday, they ended it.
After immigrant rights activists spoke out against a proposal to increase the number of Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees at the city jail, the Santa Ana City Council scrapped the idea.
Orange County organizations are calling on the Department of Homeland Security to examine the probation department’s practice of referring juveniles suspected of being undocumented to federal immigration authorities.
Dozens turn out to protest the county’s collaboration with federal authorities in the arrest and detention of undocumented immigrants.