Fear from ongoing ICE operations has led immigrant workers and families in Southern California to face worsening extreme heat conditions at their workplaces and homes.

O NTARIO, Calif. ( NewsNation) — Two staff members at a Southern California surgery center have been charged after allegations they assaulted and interfered with immigration officers attempting to detain a migrant in the U.S. illegally, according to the Justice Department.

Candido’s story reveals how ICE surveillance and raids intersect—and how data journalism is exposing these secretive tactics.

Among those detained in California, the majority are not the “worst of the worst” the Trump administration said it was targeting, federal data shows.

DHS claims Rep. Carbajal doxxed a staff member during a raid on a California marijuana farm that resulted in the arrest of 361 illegal immigrants.

A bill pending in the California legislature, Senate Bill 627, has passed out of committee. The legislation, authored by Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, and Sen. Jesse Arreguín, D-Oakland, would ban local, state and federal police from covering their faces while conducting operations in California. Violations would be a misdemeanor.

A deaf immigrant who sought asylum at the California-Mexico border was released from detention after a federal judge ordered authorities to provide him with an interpreter.

The notable increase in ICE arrests throughout the country now has the numbers to prove it, according recent reports.

The majority of new detainees at one Kern County facility in McFarland are immigrants with no criminal convictions, according to the latest data by ICE, mirroring a nationwide trend. Meanwhile, another detention facility in Bakersfield is at capacity, according to immigrant advocates.

A month after an ICE raid at a Los Angeles area swap meet, business has declined but is slowly picking back up.