Advocates are reporting an arrest by masked federal immigration agents in San Jose, as elected officials look to advance a policy requiring all law enforcement officers to identify themselves when working in the city.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents on Wednesday arrested one person at an ICE check-in facility on Blossom Hill Road, according to people with the Rapid Response Network who witnessed the incident. The network is a coalition of community-run organizations that protect immigrants and their families from deportation raids in Santa Clara County. Volunteers with the network said there was no further ICE activity in the surrounding area.
“For too long, immigrant families in San Jose have lived under the shadow of fear, not because they have done anything wrong, but because of the federal government’s indiscriminate targeting of immigrant families in the state of California,” District 5 Councilmember Peter Ortiz, who is leading the push for immigration agents to identify themselves, said at a Wednesday rally. “This is not law enforcement. This is blatant intimidation.”…