Narciso Barranco, 48, was accused of assaulting a federal agent with a weed whacker. He and his family said he was trying to protect himself from pepper spray.

The majority of new detainees at one Kern County facility in McFarland are immigrants with no criminal convictions, according to the latest data by ICE, mirroring a nationwide trend. Meanwhile, another detention facility in Bakersfield is at capacity, according to immigrant advocates.

Two Democratic lawmaker say that the Department of Homeland Security is placing restrictive rules on visiting the Adelanto ICE Processing Center, which interferes with their ability to conduct Congressional oversight.

Several immigrant detainees described high tension and anxiety at the remote, hastily constructed facility over a lack of information, recreation and access to medication.

Since early June, more than two dozen people have been arrested by immigration agents in San Francisco. Often these arrests are at the San Francisco immigration court at 100 Montgomery St. and at the local Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office at 630 Sansome St.

Benjamin Song, the man behind a statewide Blue Alert after a July 4 attack on an immigration detention center, was previously sued over his involvement in a counter-protest outside a Fort Worth drag show in 2023.

A federal immigration detention center in Los Angeles has been the focus of protests and a military presence in the city since June. While interviewing

Usually, ICE detains someone in the detention center for 48 hours, unless there is another order detaining them longer.

"In most respects, ICE facilities operate with less consistent oversight and legal accountability than state or federal prisons or local jails," Brinkley-Rubinstein said. "ICE detention facilities and people that run them tend to be much less transparent about their operations."