A Stockton police sergeant and eight officers wearing face shields and carrying batons and less-lethal weapons escorted vehicles leaving the city’s U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility Thursday night.
The police presence at the federal facility was linked to federal immigration enforcement action earlier Thursday at a Home Depot in Sacramento.
Empowering Marginalized Asian Communities, a nonprofit whose mission is to help build safe and thriving Southeast Asian communities in Stockton and the Central Valley, said the Sacramento detainees were transferred to Stockton, prompting peaceful protesters to form around 2 p.m. at 603 San Juan Ave., where the ICE field office is located…