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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Questions loom implicit a Central Valley ICE raid rumor connected Monday.
The Fresno metropolis councilman who issued that informing is refusing to sanction his source.
Councilman Miguel Arias announced during Thursday’s meeting that the migrant assemblage should enactment distant from the Cherry Avenue Auction connected Saturday.
“We person learned that this play ICE is readying to prosecute successful a monolithic migration raid astatine the Cherry Auction,” Arias said Thursday.
The assemblage followed his proposal and stayed home, leaving the auction highly quiescent connected Saturday.
Community members weren’t the lone ones who didn’t amusement up, though. ICE didn’t either.
Cherry Avenue Auction vendor Silvia says she was 1 of galore who chose not to go.
“Someone told maine ICE agents would beryllium there, truthful I could pass my contacts and radical who are astatine risk," she said.
She says she, similar many, is acrophobic by ICE’s activity.
"I consciousness powerless due to the fact that it's unfair what's being done to people,” Silvia said. “Not everyone who is present is present to bash harm to this country. On the contrary, astir radical who travel present travel successful hunt of a amended life."
Arias shared a social media post connected Saturday, saying successful part, “I privation to convey the migrant assemblage for exercising precaution. As a result, the planned ICE raid did not instrumentality place, making our assemblage safer.”
YourCentralValley.com has reached retired to Arias aggregate times to inquire wherefore helium thought ICE would amusement up astatine the auction, but helium has not responded.
Reporters besides tried to inquire him astir it astatine a abstracted property lawsuit Monday afternoon.
He said, “I notation you to ICE,” past walked rapidly to his car.
ICE sent YourCentralValley.com a statement last week saying, “To guarantee the information of our personnel, ICE does not corroborate oregon sermon the circumstantial question of its officers oregon agents.”
While determination was nary raid successful Fresno connected Saturday, determination was a raid astatine a akin swap conscionable successful LA County.
“Imagine each the radical that merchantability astatine the Cherry Auction. A batch of radical unrecorded disconnected of that. They're astatine swapmeet selling due to the fact that that's however you marque a living,” Silvia said.
She says she’s thankful helium tried to support people, but says the mode helium delivered that accusation was “chaotic and wrong.”
Marco Rosas contributed to this report.
