OPINION: Without stronger legal protections, anti-immigrant officials in our state will continue to find dark corners in which to operate, and the harm to individual immigrants will continue to ripple out to their families and to our communities.
Farmworkers listen to volunteers talk about the COVID-19 vaccine in Hemet, Calif., Feb. 8, 2021. Across California, noncitizen workers disproportionately occupy agricultural jobs. Our Central Valley communities are traumatized. County sheriffs are working to advance an anti-immigrant agenda, undermining the spirit of pro-immigrant state laws like the
For instance, in 2019, Kern County sheriffs’ officials arrested one of our community members, a widow and primary breadwinner for her three children, while she was working in the citrus and almond fields. She was falsely accused of stealing a bag of fruit and sent to jail. After she paid bail, two ICE agents were waiting — inside the jail — to arrest her. She spent six months in immigration detention, separated from her children.
Her story fits within a larger pattern of underhanded collusion between Central Valley sheriffs’ officials and ICE.that local law enforcement offices have created shadow transfer systems to avoid the public reporting required under the Values Act. For example, sheriffs will “release” people into non-public areas of jails, where ICE agents are often waiting, and where the detainee cannot leave the premises to rightfully return home.
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