U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity across the East Bay has surged in the last two weeks, including two violent arrests in Oakland and Emeryville. Here’s what Berkeley residents need to know.
California is experiencing heightened immigration enforcement activity for a 45-day period as part of an operation that is allegedly internally named “Operation Safe California,” as first reported by the Washington Examiner on Oct. 7.
In the last two weeks, Alameda County has seen the greatest number of ICE arrests in a two-week period in the region in the past 10 months, according to Nikolas De Bremaeker, managing attorney at Alameda County Immigration Legal and Education Partnership, or ACILEP…