In the days before protests erupted in Los Angeles, the Trump administration stepped up its efforts to detain migrants — taking into custody those who arrived for routine check-ins while also conducting workplace raids that have sent waves of fear across Southern California and beyond.

Immigration attorney Farhad Sethna spoke about how the crackdown by ICE is affecting people and what they can do to prepare.

Protests against President Trump's deportation policies have divided Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill and across the country. Senator Ted Cruz, R-Texas, praised the President's decision to deploy the National Guard in California.

Senate President Karen Spilka compared sweeping arrests by federal immigration authorities since President Donald Trump took office in January to Adolf Hitler’s rise to power in Europe during the

Demonstrators hit the streets again in L.A. after President Trump deployed the National Guard due to protests against ICE raids.

Florida Highway Patrol has tapped into a vast private surveillance network — performing hundreds of searches for license plates scanned by cameras controlled by the controversial surveillance

Advocates are calling on Governor Gavin Newsom to permanently close the state's deactivated prisons before they can be repurposed by the federal government as immigration detention centers, in order to protect California's progress on decarceration and prevent ICE expansion.

A Venezuelan political prisoner who spent more than three years incarcerated under Nicolás Maduro’s regime has been detained in the United States after an immigration judge dismissed his asylum claim. He now faces possible deportation to the same country he once fled, where he was tortured.