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KERN COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- As President-elect Donald Trump is expected to instrumentality bureau successful January, there's interest implicit migrants crossed the authorities of California getting deported.
ABC News has confirmed caller US Border Patrol sightings successful Kern County.
On Thursday, posts of Border Patrol sightings successful Fresno and Madera Counties flooded societal media, creating interest for radical surviving successful the Central Valley.
"In the past month, we've filed, I think, 72 asylum cases. It's, I think, triple oregon quadruple what we usually record wrong a month," said Anuar Arriaga-Esquivel, a ineligible advocator astatine Oasis Legal Services.
Arriaga-Esquivel says he's received much calls from acrophobic clients successful caller weeks.
He says the propulsion to record much cases comes with the anticipation of extortion from deportation.
Arriaga-Esquivel explains that depending connected however a lawsuit is filed, it tin instrumentality respective years for a idiosyncratic to get the due documentation to enactment successful the U.S.
Still, Arriaga-Esquivel wants radical to cognize that each person, whether oregon not they person ineligible presumption successful the states, has law rights.
"You person the close to stay soundless and you volition bash truthful until you person an lawyer oregon typical contiguous with you to assistance you. We are letting clients cognize to delight transportation immoderate benignant of impervious that they person a pending migration lawsuit open," said Arriaga-Esquivel.
The Fresno County Sheriff's Office sent Action News a connection astir the Border Patrol sightings, writing, successful part:
"There are reports of officers with US Customs and Border Protection carrying retired enforcement operations crossed the Central Valley. We punctual you that if you are a unfortunate of a crime, you tin ever trust connected the Sheriff's Office to respond to your needs, careless of whether oregon not you are a documented person."
Fresno Unified Interim Superintendent Misty Her says she's received calls from parents regarding policies involving Border Patrol sightings.
"We don't stock information, particularly confidential accusation astir families. Our occupation is to marque definite that we educate, careless of your national presumption oregon migration status," said Her.
Fresno Unified Interim Superintendent Misty Her says she's received calls from parents regarding policies involving Border Patrol sightings.
Her says the territory hosts workshops for families to cognize their rights if they ever travel successful interaction with the Border Patrol.
She wants families to cognize that erstwhile children travel to schoolhouse successful the district, they are protected by Fresno Unified's policies and procedures.
"They beryllium with america erstwhile they are present with us. And that's a immense portion of safety. Our students larn amended erstwhile they come, and they cognize that I'm walking into a spot wherever I cognize determination are radical who emotion and attraction astir me," said Her.
Both Merced and Madera County sheriff's offices accidental they person not heard of immoderate Border Patrol raids successful their counties.
Congressman Jim Costa says determination is superior enactment to beryllium done.
Costa feels separating families is not a well-thought-out plan.
He believes wide deportation could bash much harm than good.
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