Most days, ICE agents patrol the halls of San Diego, California's Edward J. Schwartz Federal Building's 4th floor, which houses eight immigration courts. But On June 20, World Refugee Day, while two immigration cases were heard, agents were nowhere to be found following a clergy delegation led by Bishop-elect Michael Pham.
Pham, a former refugee who fled Vietnam in 1980 at the age of 13, told The Times of San Diego that ICE agents were "standing there covered with masks as we walked toward the courtroom. Eventually the ... agents kind of scattered and went away. No wonder people come in fear."
