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[Fascists] raid homes of California anti-ICE activists in alleged harassment campaign
(www.themirror.com)
Reem Yassin, the watch group’s attorney, described the raids as “fishing expeditions” that used “baseless” search warrants. "These raids are nothing more than an intimidation tactic to suppress free speech,” he said at a Thursday press conference.
Yassin added that the incidents were part of a year-long pattern in which federal agents have targeted more than 50 people associated with the group with arrests, raids, car ramming, pepper-spraying, and following them home. VC Defensa, based in Ventura County, is one of many neighborhood groups across the U.S. known to record and monitor Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
Immigration agents have been documented targeting observers with violence while they film immigration activities, most notably killing legal observers Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minnesota this winter.