Yemeni asylum seekers face a years-long wait for their cases to be heard even as the threat of deportation looms and their home country slides back into war.
Federal immigration authorities used Chico’s ALPRs as recently as this past summer, the Chico Police Department states in a 19-page report released Sept. 18.
The government’s deportation efforts are increasingly relying on the deployment of surveillance tools that experts say directly threaten Americans' civil liberties.
The Trump administration is pushing for the deployment of a voter ID system that could result in the mass purging of naturalized US citizens from voter rolls.
On Sept. 9 DHS announced that protections for Salvadorans in the US would remain in place until a final decision is made regarding the fate of the program.
About 30,000 Salvadorans with TPS live in California, including some 2,000 in Mendota, home to one of the largest Salvadoran communities in the country.