The San Diego County Sheriff’s Department was called to the scene of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrest in Spring Valley earlier this week, prompting some neighbors to raise concerns about the use of deputies to support federal law enforcement actions.<\/p>\n
Frustrated and angry Spring Valley neighbors, cameras rolling, rushed to the arrest of a man identified as Manual on Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I walked out is when I saw all the cars just blocking him and blocking the street,\u201d said Mannely Alonso, Manuel\u2019s daughter.<\/p>\n
Alonso says Homeland Security agents broke a car window and cut a safety belt taking her dad into custody. Manuel resisted, telling agents he would not go.<\/p>\n
\u201cI tried to get them off of him, and it just escalated,\u201c Alonso said.<\/p>\n
She says her mother, 49-year-old Elizabeth Gutierrez Diaz, was taken into ICE custody earlier that day while at work.<\/p>\n
ICE has not yet responded to NBC 7’s questions about these detentions.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf before we were scared, I am even more scared now,\u201d Alonso said.<\/p>\n
Also called to the scene were deputies.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wouldn\u2019t say it is regular,” SDSO Lt. Ashley Lewis said. “This is actually the first time for the Rancho San Diego Station that we\u2019ve received a call like this.”<\/p>\n
Lewis says deputies were dispatched after receiving a report that 10 people were involved and possibly two were injured.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen we show up, we\u2019re simply ensuring that no one is injured, and no criminal activity is occurring, and everyone is safe,\u201d Lewis said.<\/p>\n
Senate Bill 54 \u2014 known as the California Values Act \u2014 went into effect on Jan. 1, 2018. It prevents state and local law enforcement agencies from using their resources on behalf of federal immigration enforcement agencies with one exception. That is, where the undocumented immigrants have been convicted of serious or violent felonies, or of misdemeanors that can be classified as such felonies.<\/p>\n
Lewis says responding deputies didn\u2019t participate in detaining Manuel. They asked if an injured HSI agent wanted medical help. The officer declined. Deputies were on scene for less then 15 minutes.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t check any immigration status of anyone. We don\u2019t ask those type of questions per the law. We just assure everyone is OK,” Lewis said.<\/p>\n
With Homeland Security operations in full view come more aggressive protests that draw local law enforcement charged with keeping the peace.<\/p>\n
The couple\u2019s daughter says her mother is being detained at the Customs and Border Protection Otay Mesa facility and her father is being held at a federal facility downtown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Diego County Sheriff’s Department was called to the scene of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrest…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":53530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,3549,7264,30443,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-53529","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-san-diego","12":"tag-sandiego","13":"tag-spring-valley","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114827766336264849","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}