<![CDATA[ICE Out of California - Our Bulletins]]>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:24:02 -0700Weebly<![CDATA[Exposing ICE cover-ups, lies and spying centers]]>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:00:00 GMThttps://www.iceoutofca.org/our-bulletins/exposing-ice-cover-ups-lies-and-spying-centersSpying centers exposed. SB 1095 (Perez), “Expose Data Deportation Centers,” just passed out of the California Senate Privacy Committee moments ago. Proudly co-sponsored by the ICE Out of California coalition, this bill will bring transparency and accountability to these secretive facilities. Read more in our new thread. 

Nicole Ozer, who leads the Center for Constitutional Democracy at UC Law San Francisco and is the incoming ED of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, explained in the Sacramento Bee late last year:
You may have never heard of a Fusion Center, but a Fusion Center has likely heard about you…in the past two decades - with little formal oversight - their surveillance and targeting activities have expanded exponentially and increasingly turned inward. Fusion Center surveillance infrastructure is designed to hoover up massive amounts of information about who we are, where we go, what we do, and who we know from many parts of our lives and funnel it to different levels of government. 

​In recent years, California fusion centers have been used to run searches for ICE and circumvent facial recognition bans, and a CalMatters investigation last month found that local law enforcement agencies have shared license plate data with ICE and Border Patrol, in violation of California law. 

While ICE sensationalizes and lies, communities bring the truth forward. In Stanislaus County, community members are reeling and outraged after ICE shot local father Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez as he was driving to his job repairing homes and buildings after fires. 

Carlos’s fiancee and attorney held a press conference, refuting one ICE lie after another. While there will likely be more information available in the coming weeks, ICE’s strategy to fabricate and sensationalize the facts persists in cases across California and the country – and the consequences are harrowing. 
ICYMI: The ICE Out of CA coalition is calling on California’s Attorney General to launch an investigation into the shooting and the Turlock Police Department’s possible collusion with ICE. In a statement, the coalition says, “we are profoundly alarmed by reports that the Turlock Police Department may have colluded with ICE following a traffic stop of Mr. Mendoza Hernandez last week. If this is true, the Turlock Police Department bears responsibility for ICE’s violence as well.” 

New analysis: ICE costs cities millions, as people face cuts to life essentials. Amid reports that HR 1 could strip millions of Californians of their healthcare and food assistance, NPR has a new analysis of ICE raids, which “left city budgets struggling to absorb the fallout.” The findings underscore why residents from San Francisco to Santa Barbara are calling on elected officials to ensure local resources go to local needs, not mass deportation and family separation. 
Last week, Angelenos rallied outside the Los Angeles Police Commission, urging the commissioners to ensure LAPD fully complies with the city’s sanctuary policies and maximizes protections for local families. Father Brendan Busse said at the rally, “That’s what we’re here to ask LAPD to do: to serve and to protect. Safety and sanctuary go together.”

Meanwhile, Alameda County’s board of supervisors unanimously passed a resolution opposing the Trump administration’s rumored plans to reopen FCI Dublin, including for federal immigration enforcement purposes. The prison is notorious for widespread sexual abuse by prison guards, and dozens of survivors are now being targeted by ICE. A new Open Secrets investigation details the growing constellation of private corporations making money off new and expanded detention centers. 

For more updates on how Californians are standing up for due process and safety, follow ICE Out of California on Bluesky. 
]]><![CDATA[SF demands answers for SFPD and ICE’s airport abduction]]>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:00:00 GMThttps://www.iceoutofca.org/our-bulletins/sf-demands-answers-for-sfpd-and-ices-airport-abductionSFPD stood guard for ICE. City residents demand answers. As videos spread of ICE agents forcibly seizing a mother and her young daughter at SFO, community members and attorneys were outraged by SFPD’s complicity and violation of the city’s sanctuary ordinance. 

On Wednesday, the FREE SF coalition filed a complaint against SFPD with the Department of Police Accountability, as well as a public records request seeking any communication between ICE and SFPD related to the violent arrest on Sunday. 
As residents chanted “ICE out of SF! ICE out of airports!” in front of the SFPD headquarters, Angela Chan, assistant chief attorney in the SF Public Defender’s Office, explained:

What happened at SFO last Sunday night was nothing short of horrifying. What pushed this from horrific to infuriating to enraging was what surrounded them. A wall of SFPD officers shielding ICE as if it was their job to protect federal agents instead of the people of San Francisco…You don’t need a law degree to understand SFPD violated state and local sanctuary laws that night. They were there to protect ICE. They were not there to protect the mom or her little girl who were being abducted in the middle of the airport.

The police department has 10 days to respond to the public records request. Find more coverage of the community rally and demands for answers from ABC, CBS, NBC, KTVU, KTSF, Telemundo, KQED, KALW, KPFA (49:40), BCN, and Gazetteer. 

Also available: Event photos (credit: Fernando Antunez) and the full text of the public records request.

Sheriffs under fire for ICE transfers, acquiescence to private ICE contractors. As SFPD faces residents’ outrage, sheriff’s offices in San Diego and Orange County are under fire for aiding mass detention and deportation. 

A CalMatters investigation uncovered that the San Diego Sheriff’s Office “failed to investigate at least seven reported sexual assaults” at the Otay Mesa ICE detention center in 2025 and “has ceded control of the cases to civilian administrators employed by [CoreCivic], the nation’s largest for-profit prison contractor.” 

Later the same day, community members and county supervisors spoke out against dozens of ICE transfers from county jails facilitated by the SD Sheriff’s Office as well as the sheriff’s failure to fulfill basic duties of investigation and protection. In response, the sheriff said that “to investigate every crime or every sexual assault that potentially or is alleged in another facility in this county is a difficult ask.” 

Meanwhile, in Orange County, a new report from the Harbor Institute found that the Sheriff’s Department transferred 271 community members to ICE in 2025, disproportionately impacting Mexican and Vietnamese residents, including people with low-level charges and decades-old convictions. Read the report. 

‘Prying open the black box.’ As Columbia Journalism Review dives into ICE’s efforts to “conceal the breadth of its detention network,” outlets like Mission Local are exposing that ICE  agents have captured hundreds of community members in routine, closed-door immigration appointments. 

Nationally, organizations like Freedom for Immigrants are launching new data and mapping projects to “track U.S. detention centers and connect families to resources,” as Prism reports. Gillian Wenhold at Freedom for Immigrants told Prism, “detention operates through speed, confusion, [and] isolation, and so the role of this map is to try and interrupt that by centralizing the information that people will need.” 

And, as philanthropic leaders call on their peers to address mass incarceration and mass deportation together, a new report exposes how California spends up to $300 million each year incarcerating 740 elders in the state’s women’s prisons. Co-led by ICE Out of CA member California Coalition for Women Prisoners, the report also analyzes pathways to safely bring elders home to their loved ones. Read more from The Appeal. 

For more updates on how Californians are standing up for due process and safety, follow ICE Out of California on Bluesky.
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