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Courthouse ICE Arrests Spark Concerns, But Aren't New

KVPR | By Joe Moore
Published September 5, 2018 at 3:16 PM PDT
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Recent arrests by ICE officials in Fresno and Sacramento have sparked controversy. But the agency conducted similar arrests at the Kern County courthouse under the Obama administration.
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Recent arrests of undocumented immigrants by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials inside Central Valley courthouses from Fresno to Sacramento have sparked controversy. But as Valley Public Radio's Monica Velez reports, such arrests aren't new. She joined us on Valley Edition to look back at a series of arrests made by ICE at a courthouse in Kern County under the Obama administration, and to talk about the local reaction to the current wave of arrests. 

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Joe Moore
Joe Moore is the President and General Manager of KVPR / Valley Public Radio. He has led the station through major programming changes, the launch of KVPR Classical and the COVID-19 pandemic. Under his leadership the station was named California Non-Profit of the Year by Senator Melissa Hurtado (2019), and won a National Edward R. Murrow Award for investigative reporting (2022).
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