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Pedro Camacho

ICE Agrees to Stop Posing as Police During South California Home Arrests in Court Settlement

A US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer looks on as a crowd locals surrounds his group after they attempted to raid a store in Bell, just south of Los Angeles, California, on June 20, 2025. (Credit: Photo by ETIENNE LAURENT/AFP via Getty Images)

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers in Southern California are no longer permitted to identify themselves as local or state police or use deceptive tactics to enter homes during enforcement actions, according to a court-approved settlement.

The agreement resolves a class action lawsuit filed in 2020 challenging ICE's home arrest practices in the Los Angeles Field Office, which covers seven counties including Los Angeles, Orange, and Riverside.

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