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FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- With President Trump's migration crackdown unfolding crossed the country, determination are caller sightings of migration agents astatine the Fresno County Superior Courthouse.
"There's been a ample uptick successful the fig of individuals who are being detained erstwhile they're attending their transgression cases," Fresno-based migration lawyer George Rios told Action News.
He says ICE precocious detained 2 of his ain clients. They were undocumented transgression defendants retired connected bail for offenses against authorities law.
Rios says they were each going to tribunal to close their wrong.
"You're trying to bash things the close way, you're trying to comply with everything, you were showing up to court," Rios said, "but that accidental is chopped retired from nether you."
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Action News has witnessed immoderate of the courthouse detainments. In July, we were connected the 3rd level erstwhile a transgression suspect was enactment into handcuffs by 2 national agents successful plain clothes, and past taken down the staircase.
Later that day, the man's nationalist defender confirmed successful court, connected the record, that who Action News saw were, successful fact, national migration enforcement officers.
With the suspect nary longer contiguous successful court, the justice issued a warrant for his arrest.
"That's what they're required to do, and it's truly bittersweet and it's truly frustrating," Rios told Action News.
The section warrant issued by the region justice tin origin large issues for an undocumented suspect who would person different been eligible to instrumentality to the United States.
"If helium past tries to travel back, and that seat warrant is inactive open, that tin origin problems, and that tin decidedly hold things," Rios said.
Action News reached retired to Immigration and Customs Enforcement past week.
We asked astir the detainments, the prevalence, and the scope of the enforcement. We besides wanted to cognize if ICE is utilizing the nationalist tribunal calendar to place defendants.
Action News ne'er heard backmost from ICE, but Republicans, similar Congressman Tom McClintock successful the North Valley, person agelong said migration laws indispensable beryllium enforced.
"Let's beryllium precise wide that illegally crossing the borderline is simply a national crime. That's wherefore we telephone it amerciable immigration," Rep. McClintock told Action News successful February. "So everyone who's done that is simply a criminal."
The evident enforcement astatine the courthouse is present causing fearfulness and confusion...
"I've had plentifulness of clients who say, 'Well, I'm not showing up to my hearing,' and past I person to counsel them, you person to amusement up, oregon other it's gonna mightiness really beryllium worse if you don't," Rios said.
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