78 immigrants detained by ICE throughout the Central Valley, officials say

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- This week, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Agents conducted unannounced raids of undocumented immigrants successful the Central Valley.

In a property league Saturday, section and national leaders announced 78 radical were detained from some Fresno and Kern Counties.

"Jurisdiction for customized and borderline protections is delineated successful national instrumentality wrong 100 miles of the borderline intelligibly existent region and thing northbound of Kern County is acold from 100 miles of the border," Rep. Jim Costa said.

Costa said that the CBP commissioner told him that the ngo was targeted astatine criminals of cause and quality trafficking and that each 78 of those detained had erstwhile transgression records.

"I asked whether oregon not that was the grade of it. He told maine that they had concluded their effort arsenic a effect of their apprehension arsenic of a time oregon 2 agone and that they would reassess wherever they would spell from there," helium said.

State leaders though contradicting claims that lone criminals were detained.

"What we cognize is farmworkers person been taken into custody, loaded onto Vans astatine state stations stores and besides astatine random postulation stops," State Sen. Anna Caballero said "And we verified due to the fact that radical person it called our bureau and we've been capable to verify a batch of this information."

In a connection connected X, the UFW confirmed that immoderate national members were detained portion traveling location from work.

These raids are stoking fearfulness amongst uncertain migrant communities and are already taking a toll connected the Valley's agriculture industry.

"I person received reports of nutrient processing facilities. I person absences of 15 to 20% present locally. Orders that volition not beryllium capable to beryllium fulfilled," Fresno County supervisor Luis Chavez said.

Fresno Unified is besides anticipating an summation successful absenteeism, arsenic students hole to instrumentality to schoolhouse from wintertime break.

Service providers person been deed hard and inundated with calls.

"We are a precise engaged enactment connected a mean day. This is conscionable threefold, fivefold what we do," Margarita with Central La Familia said.

Leaders clarified that section instrumentality enforcement resources were not utilized to assistance successful these raids, which took galore by surprise.

"So this full contented with immigration, rather frankly, was shocking and was not expected this early," Caballero said.

Action News reached retired to the CBP for remark and has not heard back.

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