Alfred Aldrete in the Tower District in Fresno on Feb. 27, 2026. Aldrete believes he is one of six people the Clovis Police Department is considering charging after he helped with security during a student-walkout protest against federal immigration raids earlier that month. Photo by Larry Valenzuela, CalMatters
As Fresno Resistance co-founder Alfred Aldrete awoke from uneasy dreams one morning last month, he found himself the focus of community gossip and, he believes, a target of the local police department.
Aldrete and a small group of volunteers escorted about 50 high school students on a walkout in protest of immigration enforcement last month in the city of Clovis, population 128,000, where Donald Trump won every precinct in the 2024 presidential election — some with more than 70% of the vote…