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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Following the latest borderline patrol enactment "Operation Return to Sender" resulting successful the arrests of 78 radical successful Kern County, politicians and advocates gathered Saturday looking to code caller fears of akin operations happening locally.
"The jurisdiction for customs and borderline protections is delineated successful national instrumentality wrong 100 miles of the border. Clearly, Kern County and thing northbound of Kern County is acold from 100 miles of the border," said Valley Congressman Jim Costa.
Costa and different section politicians and organizations came unneurotic to express concerns for the migrant assemblage aft borderline patrol arrests successful Kern County— with reports of a akin cognition successful Fresno.
"As you tin tell, the fearfulness is real. The concerns are precise overmuch contiguous present successful our community," said Fresno County District 3 Supervisor Luis Chavez.
While the borderline patrol's "El Centro Sector" says those arrested were targeted arsenic portion of drug, gun, and quality trafficking operations, Chavez says fearfulness spreading among mundane migrant workers could person a ripple effect.
"These past mates days person been very, precise stressful for our migrant community. I person received reports from nutrient processing facilities that person had absences of 15% to 20% present locally. Orders that volition not beryllium capable to beryllium fulfilled," said Chavez.
Costa besides shared details from a telephone telephone with the borderline patrol commissioner, providing a little outlook.
"The 78 arrests that took place, that that was, astatine this point, going to beryllium the decision of the actions," Costa said. "He said they would reassess the impacts that that had."
Officials besides confirm local instrumentality enforcement, including Fresno constabulary and the sheriff's office, are not progressive successful immoderate operations related to migration sweeps.
