Culture Editor

Emily Dreyfuss

California City in Kern County has become home to the state’s largest ICE detention center. Its mayor is struggling to do anything about it.

The state senator’s bill would make it easier for individuals to seek monetary damages from federal, state, and local officers.

State Sen. Scott Wiener called the Trump administration’s lawsuit a desperate ploy to uphold “unchecked power to kidnap and intimidate.”

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Brooke Jenkins and Nancy Pelosi are talking tough, but officers on the ground say it’s largely political theater.