“People were tortured inside the Adelanto ICE prison. GEO Group is fighting to keep the records secret so the public is kept in the dark about what’s really going on there,” said [me w/ @thesouthlander.com] “The taxpayers who fund that facility deserve transparency.”
Motion granted! Public Justice scored a win on behalf of FAC, @thesouthlander.bsky.social, @lapublicpress.bsky.social & Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice to unseal documents in a case against the Adelanto ICE Processing Center. Learn more here ⬇️ firstamendmentcoalition.org/news/post/mo...
Watch The Southlander interview with Jenaro Ernesto Ayala, a labor outreach coordinator for the Van Nuys Day Labor Center. Ayala spoke about his experience getting detained by the federal agents, the brutality he faced, and how it impacts the community's mental health.
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Since April 2023, at least 217 Long Beach tenants have been displaced due to substantial remodel evictions. Tenant advocates allege that landlords exploit the "renoviction loophole" without proper legal or city notification.
✍️ by Kevin Flores
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Last July, while working, Ernesto Ayala was tipped that immigration agents were headed towards his way to take a group of women. Ayala put his body on the line to protect them, & he was brutalized & taken
I interviewed Ernesto about that day: @thesouthlander.com
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Yesterday, news broke that an immigration judge dismissed the deportation case against Narciso Barranco, an undocumented landscaper who was violently arrested on June 21
My colleagues @kevin-flores.bsky.social & @bencamach0.bsky.social sat down w/ Barranco shortly after for @thesouthlander.com 👇
"Hope is like when you fall into an emptiness, and you have hope that you're going to float, you're going to float. It's like how I always said, 'we're in a hole, but we need to dig. Find a way to move forward.'" - Narciso
Watch @thesouthlander.com's doc
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🎥 Here is a clip from an interview with Leo Martinez, an organizer with Ventura County Defensa (VC Defensa), as he reflects on ICE retaliating against him and on how his organization is prepared to fight
You watch the whole interview on our website: thesouthlander.com
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For The Southlander newsletter, I interviewed Leo Martinez from VC Defensa about the day an ICE agent T-boned his truck while he was patrolling an industrial area of Oxnard on October 16. Check it out! And subscribe to our newsletter!
An ICE agent slammed into his pickup truck twice then lied to cops about it. Check out @abemarquez.bsky.social's interview with Leo Martinez of immigrant advocacy group VC Defensa.
In October, I attended the @empirefiles.bsky.social LA film premiere for their new documentary, Earth’s Greatest Enemy. By far, one of the most crucial topics & reporting of our lifetime. A must-watch!
For The Southlander newsletter, I wrote about the film ⬇️
For our most recent newsletter, journalist Morgan Keith spoke with Abby Martin about her documentary, "Earth's Greatest Enemy." The film chronicles how the escalation of climate catastrophes across the world are deeply entwined with the carbon footprint of the U.S. military-industrial complex.
Visit thesouthlander.com to watch our mini documentary where we sat down to talk with Narciso and his wife, Martha. To support our ability to produce more journalism as a worker-led newsroom, please consider subscribing to our newsletter or becoming a paid member.
"So, that was the first time I saw him after what happened," Martha told The Southlander. "He was not the man that left to go out and head to work. He looked very sad."
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ICE agents had violently arrested him earlier that day while he was pulling weeds outside of an IHOP and sent him to Adelanto Detention Center. His wife was able to unable to reunite with him until 24 days later when he was released on bond.
Martha married her husband, Narciso Barranco, in 2023. Just a few short years later, their family sat around the dinner table on a seemingly normal night, waiting for him to return home and eat dinner together.
Narciso never got the chance to go home that night.
Watch our mini documentary about the terror and trauma inflicted by the ICE deportation machine through the eyes of Barranco and his wife Martha.
Narciso Barranco arrived to the U.S. in 1994. He spent 24 days locked up in a detention center after being violently arrested by a snatch squad of federal immigration agents in Santa Ana on June 21.
You can watch our mini-documentary here:
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Check out our latest newsletter. Our reporters @bencamach0.bsky.social and @kevin-flores.bsky.social sat down with Narciso Barranco, who ICE targeted.
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Check out our latest newsletter: In October, the government’s new fiscal year begins, & it will bring billions of dollars in increased funding for immigration enforcement
Kevin Flores sat down with Alvaro Huerta, who represents the Immigrant Defenders Law Center
thesouthlander.com/huerta-on-th...
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When Robert Luna was the LBPD chief, I covered the violence his officers unleashed on peaceful protesters during the BLM uprisings in Long Beach. He’s at it again as Sheriff. This time his deputies injured two of my colleagues and other members of the public and press.
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