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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Local groups are reacting to a shocking connection by Fresno City Councilman Miguel Arias connected Friday.
During the nationalist remark information of Thursday’s assembly meeting, helium announced determination would beryllium an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid successful Fresno implicit the weekend.
“We person learned that this weekend, ICE is readying to prosecute successful a monolithic migration raid astatine the Cherry Auction successful Fresno,” Arias said.
He told the migrant assemblage to debar the marketplace this weekend.
His connection raised contiguous questions, though.
“This is the archetypal I'm proceeding of the ICE raid up successful Fresno,” United Farm Workers (UFW) Federation Spokesperson Daniel Larios said.
UFW tracks ICE’s enactment for the migrant community.
Larios says helium hasn’t seen immoderate signs of section raids.
“We privation radical to beryllium wary of rumors. Certainly, rumors are not precise adjuvant successful keeping radical calm,” Larios said.
In a station connected their Instagram story, the Cherry Avenue Auction said they person “no cognition of immoderate planned ICE… raid” astatine their facility.
They clarified ICE would not pass them up of clip either way.
They accidental they are nether the county’s jurisdiction, not the city’s, truthful they find it “puzzling and violative that a metropolis councilmember would assertion to person specified information.”
They added that, adjacent if helium did cognize of immoderate upcoming raid, it’s concerning Arias “may beryllium willfully interfering successful a national enactment involving Immigration and Customs Enforcement.”
Larios says if they go alert of a imaginable raid, they person “a accelerated effect web that volition go progressive once… an cognition moves up north.”
ICE sent YourCentralValley.com a connection responding to the rumor, saying, "To guarantee the information of our personnel, ICE does not corroborate oregon sermon the circumstantial question of its officers oregon agents."
Then, successful different confusing connection by a politician, Governor Gavin Newsom said connected The Daily, a New York Times podcast connected Thursday, that determination person already been ICE raids successful Tulare and Fresno Counties.
Newsom told The Daily, “The enactment contiguous that's profoundly alarming are each these raids that are happening each crossed the authorities of California, Tulare County, Fresno County, Ventura County, present successful Los Angeles, astatine Home Depots and car washes.”
Fresno County has participated in handing implicit inmates from the Fresno County Jail, but Larios is not alert of immoderate raids.
“I, you know, honestly wouldn't enactment it past ICE to bash a astonishment raid present oregon there. But arsenic of close now, we haven't heard anything,” Larios said.
YourCentralValley.com reached retired to Newsom’s bureau for clarification connected his statement, but they person not replied.
Reporters besides reached retired to Arias for clarification connected his assertion and to larn who his root is. He has not responded.
The UFW Federation says they volition analyse his assertion and support the assemblage updated if they larn anything.
