Immigration

A Drill Without a Purpose—Or One It Won’t Admit On July 7, 2025, MacArthur Park in Los Angeles was the stage for a surprise joint “readiness” operation called Operation Excalibur. The drill included participation from nearly a dozen federal and state agencies: ICE, CBP, ATF, DEA, FBI, IRS-CI, U.S. Marshals, Homeland Security Investigations, and the California National Guard. A CBP press release described the event as a “static interagency site protection drill focused on readiness and coordinated response capabilities.” 1 ...

ICE Raids Trigger Crisis for Immigrant Workers and Local Economies This month, aggressive federal immigration raids have upended entire communities across Bakersfield, Los Angeles, and surrounding Central Valley regions. Federal agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), in coordination with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), descended on farms, food processing plants, and Home Depot parking lots — detaining workers in large numbers. Local organizers report that dozens have already been transferred to detention centers, with families receiving no formal legal notification and zero access to counsel within the first 48 hours. ...

Undocumented and Under Siege Millions of undocumented people live, work, and raise families in the United States. Every single one of them deserves dignity, safety, and freedom. But the government treats these people as threats. Right now that threat is being answered with armed raids, detention vans, and mass deportations. In June 2025, ICE launched a national crackdown across over a dozen states. In California alone more than six hundred people were detained in just three days. Home Depot parking lots, farmworker housing areas, laundromats, day labor hubs became ambush zones. In Atlanta agents stormed apartments with rifles. In Houston workers were pulled off meatpacking lines mid-shift. In New York plainclothes ICE teams staked out train stations. This isn’t about safety—it’s about punishment and control. ...