A state law puts limits on when a county sheriff can transfer an inmate to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, based on their criminal record. Advocates point to records showing San Diego Sheriff Kelly Martinez might have violated that law in at least one case.

Tara McGrath says investigators who typically work on national security or fentanyl abatement, as well as ATF agents targeting ghost gun makers, were spending less time on their specialties.

U.S. immigration agents are planning a new operation to arrest migrant families with children as part of a nationwide crackdown, according to three sources familiar with the planning.

A lawsuit was filed against Border Patrol over an immigration enforcement operation in Bakersfield in early January.

Then-Gov. Jerry Brown signed the California Values Act into law in 2017, limiting state and local law enforcement's cooperation with federal immigration agents.

Gov. Youngkin's executive order requires state police to sign a task force agreement with ICE and local jails to cooperate with the task force.

Republican lawmakers in some states are threatening local officials with lawsuits, fines and jail time if they resist President Donald Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration.

Cardinal Robert McElroy, the bishop of San Diego who is preparing to take over as archbishop of Washington, D.

Speaking at a news conference at the Diocese of San ... immigration enforcement is particularly problematic, and a “deep moral question,” he said, evoking the role of U.S. Immigration and ...