More than 100 detained in holiday immigration raids across Central Coast, sparking outrage

Federal immigration agents took people from their homes, job sites, businesses and on the streets as they ran errands,
#Santa #Maria City Councilmember Gloria Soto said.

She said at least 87 people were taken by agents in her town from Saturday through Tuesday.

“Children are returning home to empty houses,
[elderly people] are starting to isolate themselves
and workers are staying home out of fear," she said.

"We cannot live in terror."

Primitiva Hernández — executive director of "805 UndocuFund", a nonprofit leading the Rapid Response Network that documents immigration sweeps in #SanLuisObispo, #SantaBarbara and #Ventura counties
— said the operations were mostly carried out in working-class towns with predominantly Latino populations.

“What we are witnessing is the indiscriminate racial profiling of communities of color,” she said.

“Families are being ripped apart,
workers are disappearing from job sites,
and fear is being used as a weapon.

The harm will have devastating consequences for people’s well-being
and for the economic stability of our region
and we must take action today.”
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