A court ruling Friday orders a halt to a chaotic and relentless 36-day immigration crackdown that’s upended life across Southern California.

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California has six privately operated immigration detention centers. Two of these — Golden State Annex in McFarland and Mesa ...

As the Trump administration continues to ramp up immigration workplace raids, agricultural businesses not yet directly ...

Georgia authorities said their goal was to serve warrants for crimes against children. They swept people up and got ...

The raids can depress local economies as people stay home and stop spending money, research shows. So far, they aren’t known ...

The federal lawsuit aims to immediately stop immigration agents from conducting the military-style raids that have swept across L.A. in the last month.

The Kern County raids were pitched as a “proof of concept” for how the Border Patrol could be mobilized for mass deportation operations away from the border.

The ruling: The ACLU filed their lawsuit after the El Centro Border Patrol traveled to Kern County to conduct a three-day sweep in January.

The ruling came in response to an American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit filed after the El Centro Border Patrol traveled to Kern County to conduct a three-day sweep in January, detaining day ...

A federal court issued a preliminary injunction forbidding the Border Patrol from conducting warrantless immigration stops throughout a wide swath of California.