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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A Fresno City councilmember issued a informing connected Thursday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents volition beryllium doing a "massive migration raid" astatine a Fresno County market.
During Thursday's Fresno City Council meeting, Councilmember Miguel Arias warned Fresno's migrant assemblage to debar the Cherry Avenue Auction successful Fresno County this weekend. In response, the Cherry Avenue Auction described the comments arsenic "puzzling" and "offensive."
"We person learned that this weekend, ICE is readying to prosecute successful a monolithic migration raid astatine the Cherry Auction successful Fresno," said Arias. "So, I would counsel our migrant assemblage that they should enactment distant from the Cherry Auction this weekend, arsenic they would enactment themselves and their families successful a susceptible presumption to beryllium picked up."
The Cherry Avenue Auction posted a effect connected societal media, stating they had "no cognition of immoderate planned ICE raid astatine our facility" and person "not been notified of immoderate specified action."
"The District's Attorney's Office has indicated that businesses are not typically provided beforehand announcement of ICE operations, but successful uncommon circumstances," the concern wrote.
The station continues to accidental they are acrophobic that Arias "may beryllium willfully interfering successful a national enactment involving Immigration and Customs Enforcement," and they find his remarks regarding the cognition of imaginable raids "puzzling and offensive," fixed that the concern is located successful Fresno County - erstwhile Arias is simply a Fresno metropolis councilmember.
"We promote our loyal customers to proceed enjoying the vibrant acquisition of our open-air market. We impulse the assemblage not to beryllium swayed by fearfulness oregon misinformation being circulated done assorted channels," Cherry Avenue Auction wrote.
YourCentralValley.com has reached retired to Councilmember Miguel Arias and Immigration and Customs Enforcement for comment.
