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Federal agents are briefed before going out into the Riverside community to apprehend immigrants who may be deportable. In the past, the agency would simply contact local jails where such immigrants were being detained and ask jail officials to hold them until an ICE van could pick them up, but hundreds of counties across the country stopped honoring such requests after a federal judge last year found that practice unconstitutional.
(Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)Originally formed to locate immigrants who had failed to comply with a judge’s deportation order, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement program is increasingly being used to find immigrants with criminal convictions who have recently been let out of jail.
Federal agents prepare to raid a house in Riverside to apprehend an immigrant without legal status and who may be deportable.
(Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)Jorge Field of ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations makes his way to an Aug. 12 raid in Riverside. On Monday, authorities said more than 240 people across Southern California were taken into federal custody last week after a four-day sweep for immigrants with criminal records in the country illegally.
(Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)Jorge Field, left, and David Marin, both with ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations, brief other agents before going out into the Riverside community to apprehend immigrants who may be deportable.
(Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations officers, in search of 32-year-old Hugo Medina, question his mother Magdalena Medina, 69, about his whereabout in a morning raid on his residence in Riverside.
(Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)The ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations unit apprehends Hugo Medina, 32, in a morning raid in Riverside.
(Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)Hugo Medina’s wife and children are distraught after he was picked up by ICE in Riverside.
(Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)Hugo Medina, 32, apprehended in a morning raid from his residence in Riverside by an ICE unit, calls his wife from an ICE processing center in San Bernardino.
(Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)An ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations unit searches for a possibly deportable immigrant in Riverside. Some people say the agency’s new jail program is simply a rebranding of a controversial earlier initiative, Secure Communities.
(Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)An immigrant without legal status is processed at an ICE center in San Bernardino. ICE officials have held up the agency’s new Priority Enforcement Program as a cheaper and safer alternative to dramatic neighborhood raids.
(Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)An immigrant without legal status is fingerprinted at an ICE center in San Bernardino.
(Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)Oct. 3, 2024