In the Inland Empire, immigrant rights groups say day laborers continue to be arrested by federal agents. They are relying on public tips about where agents with Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol are showing up, while volunteers inform workers about their rights.
On Tuesday, volunteers part of a local rapid response network rushed to the Ontario Advanced Surgery Clinic after nurses there called to report an ICE arrest. In a video posted online by the Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice (IC4IJ), you can hear a nurse ask the agent for a warrant.
Two ICE agents are seen arresting Dennis Guillen, a 30-year-old gardener from Honduras, and one other unidentified worker. In a statement, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said Guillen fled from agents and that the nurses obstructed his arrest by assaulting an agent…