Andrea Castillo

Trump repeated false claims he made on the campaign trail, including that Biden secretly flew migrants into the U.S. and that many immigrants are violent criminals.

Then-Gov. Jerry Brown signed the California Values Act into law in 2017, limiting state and local law enforcement's cooperation with federal immigration agents.

Advocates on the scene said the Border Patrol raids in Kern County last month indiscriminately targeted Latino farmworkers commuting from the fields and day laborers soliciting work in the parking lots of big box stores.

Immigrant rights groups raise alarms over plan to make all immigrants who do not have legal status, including children, provide personal information and fingerprints.

About 350,000 Venezuelans are set to lose their legal protections and work permits by April 7.

President Trump often rails about illegal immigration, but some of his executive orders aim to eliminate or undermine legal pathways for immigration.

Organizers said they have tracked 250 businesses nationwide that were closed Monday in solidarity with immigrants.

A federal facility in Adelanto will resume holding migrants.

Churches took in refugees from battle-scarred Central America in the 1980s, a precursor to their current focus on undocumented immigrants.

Immigrants rights groups are already contesting President Trump's sweeping executive orders aimed at combating illegal immigration.