"With the public's outrage and attention focused on the deadly surge of federal agents in Minneapolis, immigration operations have quietly continued across the US albeit in less noticeable but still troubling ways, advocates say. In recent weeks there have been day laborers swept up at a Home Depot in San Diego. A taco truck vendor chased down outside a church in Los Angeles. Immigrants arrested at check-in in North Carolina, and during traffic stops in the nation's capital."
"Immigrant Defenders Law Center, a non-profit firm based in LA, has seen a recent spike in the number of calls to their legal resource hotline. Those callers include people who have been detained themselves, or family members and friends trying to track down detained loved ones. For the past six months, the firm received roughly 400 calls a month. But in January, that call number jumped to 546."
"And in cities that have faced their own crackdown operations, raids and arrests haven't stopped even after the drawdown of federal agents, with some signs that tactics are shifting. In southern California, under-the-radar arrests have continued at a fast clip in the first few weeks of 2026, activists and legal experts say. Los Angeles was hit with sweeping immigration raids last summer that ground daily life to a halt."
Federal immigration operations have continued across the U.S. in less noticeable but troubling ways, including day laborer sweeps at a Home Depot in San Diego, the pursuit of a taco truck vendor outside a Los Angeles church, arrests at check-in in North Carolina, and traffic-stop arrests in Washington, D.C. These actions have stoked fear and disrupted work, school and medical appointments. Raids and arrests have persisted in cities facing crackdowns even after a drawdown of federal agents, with tactics shifting toward under-the-radar arrests. Calls to a Los Angeles legal hotline rose from roughly 400 monthly to 546 in January.
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