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Facts versus statement: New findings on January Border Patrol Operation in Kern County show agents didn’t go after said ‘targets’
A new investigation into a recent Border Patrol raid in Bakersfield that led to the arrests of 78 people indicates it targeted areas popular to farm workers, not individuals based on criminal records.
Border Patrol said it targeted known criminals in one California county. But it had no record on 77 of 78 arrestees
Contrary to its public narrative, the agency cast a wide net in its California immigration raid, setting the stage for a ...
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Border Patrol Arrest Claims From Bakersfield Raid Don't Match Records
Here are this morning's top stories for Thursday, April 10th, 2025: In early January, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents from El Centro near San Diego launched a deportation raid in Kern ...
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Border Patrol to retrain hundreds of California agents on how to comply with the Constitution
The Department of Homeland Security told a federal court it will retrain more than 900 California-based Border Patrol agents after controversial immigration sweeps in Kern County in January.
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Border Patrol Sued Over Violating Bakersfield Immigrant Rights w/ Bree Bernwanger, Sergio Olmos & Wendy Fry
And we’re additionally joined by Wendy Fry, a multimedia investigative journalist who reports on poverty and inequality for the California Divide team at CalMatters, who has been collaborating with ...
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Border Patrol performs raid outside of Home Depot
Immigration activists are demanding answers after they say day laborers were seemingly targeted outside of a Home Depot ...
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Border Patrol to retrain hundreds of California agents on how to comply with Constitution
The Department of Homeland Security will retrain over 900 California-based Border Patrol agents following controversial ... Wilder Munguia Esquivel, 38, a licensed handyman and longtime Bakersfield ...