Santa Barbara Rally Denounces Immigration Raids, Calls for Community Action

Hundreds of people attended to the "ICE Out of 805" protest in downtown Santa Barbara on June 10, 2025 (Photo: Future Leaders of America)

On Tuesday, community leaders, advocates, and residents gathered outside the Santa Barbara Courthouse to demand an end to the federal immigration raids and threats to community safety.

The event, led by The FUND for Santa Barbara and the 805 Immigrant Coalition, shed light on the escalating impact of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations throughout Ventura, Santa Barbara, and San Luis Obispo Counties.

Organized under the banner “ICE Out of 805,” the event united nearly a dozen partner organizations and vocational advocacy groups. Speakers highlighted the fear and uncertainty gripping immigrant communities in the region as a result of targeted raids and confirmed ICE activities.

“Family separation is no longer something we can think of as happening only at the border,” said Eder Gaona-Macedo, Executive Director of The FUND for Santa Barbara. “It is happening right here in our neighborhoods, in the 805. Our immigrant community is living in fear—parents afraid to drop their children off at school, workers afraid to get to their jobs, and whole communities silenced through fear and surveillance.”

Rev. Julia Hamilton of the Unitarian Society spoke in solidarity of immigrant and migrant community members on June 10, 2025 (Photo: Unitarian Society of Santa Barbara)

The extent of the crisis was underscored by Primitiva Hernandez, Executive Director of 805 UndocuFund, who revealed that 81 individuals have either been detained or deported across four confirmed ICE operations in the region.

“Immigrant-serving organizations and attorneys are at full capacity, providing services to families navigating detention, deportation, and separation. This is a dire and escalating crisis in our region, and our communities cannot face it alone,” Hernandez explained.

Attendees were urged to mobilize and collaborate in support of impacted families. The event concluded with a plea for nonprofits, labor unions, faith groups, and justice-minded individuals to join forces and work toward meaningful change for collective liberation.

 

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“This moment is part of a long and ongoing history of state-sanctioned violence that targets Brown, Black, immigrant, and LGBTQ+ communities alike. Our struggles are interconnected, as is our power. We call on all communities to stand in solidarity in defense of our dignity, safety, and rights. We urge nonprofits, student groups, labor unions, faith communities, and all justice-minded individuals and organizations to get plugged in and show up for our collective liberation,” the FUND for Santa Barbara stated in a press release.

Partner organizations such as Indivisible Santa Barbara, the League of Women Voters, the Unitarian Society of Santa Barbara, Future Leaders of America, MICOP, the California Immigrant Policy Center, Voces Sin Fronteras, and the Immigrant Legal Defense Center have pledged ongoing support in the fight to protect immigrant rights in the region.

As the immigration crisis deepens, rallies like “ICE Out of 805” reflect growing resistance and community resilience. However, organizers stressed that sustained support and active engagement are critical to ensuring safety and equity for immigrant families across the Central Coast.

Hundreds of people attended to the “ICE Out of 805” protest in downtown Santa Barbara on June 10, 2025 (Photo: Future Leaders of America)

Local agencies have confirmed that targeted ICE operations are occurring now through June 15 in Ventura, Santa Barbara, and San Luis Obispo Counties. Anyone witnessing activity or detentions is encouraged to report it to the Rapid Response Hotline at (805) 870-8855.

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  1. The vast majority of the voters in America put Donald Trump in the White House to enforce existing immigration laws.
    What part of that do you not understand?
    You better get with the program real quick.
    Because I can guarantee you that I C E will be here.
    And they don’t care about your feelings emotions or lies.

    • ICE is the American Gestapo. They are breaking the law left and right. Americans are being arrested without due process. Americans are being deported. Americans are being profiled. What don’t you understand?

    • How many times are you low-information yokels going to repeat that lie?
      The Orange Moron got a plurality of the vote, not a majority, and only a pitiful percentage of the population even voted.
      Stop swallowing the con propaganda!

    • JAMES – “vast majority of the voters in America put Donald Trump in the White House ”

      Again – STOP LYING.

      You’ve been explained this over and over here. Less than 32% of eligible voters is not a majority, and FAR from a “vast majority.”

      Are you just trolling us with this or do you honestly believe this LIE?

      Prove it or shut it.

    • Hi Jimmy. There was no “vast majority”. He got a plurality of the vote, not a majority, and certainly not even close to a majority of *eligible voters*. Go back to math class. We have existing laws. It is not a crime to be in the US while undocumented. (It *can* be, if you were previously removed or entered illegally.)
      Finally, on I C E – I’m a bit interested in the fact that you aren’t concerned that masked, unidentified, armed men are kidnapping people. Do you not see the problem in that? Besides the fact that they are frequently breaking the law, this opens up the whole risk of random masked people without any identification actually KIDNAPPING PEOPLE.

    • actually it was about half of you and the smarter group (us), notice that most of you are so weak minded that you follow conspiracy theories, you believe anything and everything trump says. you have no clear understanding of the definition of democracy, or fascism.
      so the dumb half of America wants everything wrecked and destroyed and to roll us back 75 years. think about that. you elected a gremlin to shred things and roll us back. decades of voter approved legislation, decades of approved law, bi-partisan laws enacted. Things we all wanted and needed. Yet you’re ok with everything being trashed. Legislation that protected and helped our country and our citizens, gone. Things we, the people, worked hard on. But you want to piss on this and our constitution too. good job.

  2. Calling what happened an “immigration raid” is a lie.
    They served three specific search warrants in Los Angeles for outstanding criminals.
    Hardly a raid.
    You have a problem with the existing Federal immigration laws?
    Then change them.
    But don’t destroy our property set fires or attack our police officers. Because if you do the National Guard will be here.

  3. Nothing you liberals say has any facts attached to it.
    It’s all silliness, childish attacks. Misguided emotions. An opinions that are totally wrong.
    Zero reality to anything that you’re saying. Who cares what you think?
    I don’t. And neither does the vast majority of America. All you are is another problem it needs to be solved.

  4. Lots of white liberals who were out there burning down cars, throwing rocks at police, and vandalizing Federal property are going to be going to jail.
    It’s all on video.
    Los Angeles Police Department and the FBI is going to be tracking you down. And they will find you. And you will be paying the price. So play all the games you want. But your games are almost over.

  5. You’re fools if you think you’re going to resist the federal government and win.
    You have zero chance against this president.
    You’re going to find out he means business.
    He doesn’t care what you your Democrat leaders or the media says.
    And neither does the vast majority of America.

  6. Not only is the Trump administration not going to back off because of your so-called protest.
    They are going to double down.
    For example.
    Any employer who is hiring illegal aliens including building contractors are in serious trouble.
    Guaranteed.
    There are so many ways to federal government can come at you it’s mind-boggling.
    You want to play games?
    You’re going to lose.
    Guaranteed.

    • JAMES – I’m still waiting for you to prove ANYTHING wrong. Your constant lies about the election makes everything else you say suspect.

      But here we go….

      If employers are going to get busted for hiring undocumented workers, why haven’t they? Why haven’t they raided any of the companies owned by rich Trump supporters who hire them?

      Answer: it’s not about immigration.

  7. Millions and millions of Californians are disgusted by what has happened in Los Angeles.
    They are not going to tolerate this type of behavior.
    It totally changes the dynamics of how things are going to be from now on in California.

  8. This isn’t the end of President Trump enforcing Federal immigration laws.
    It’s only the beginning.
    There are some very unpleasant surprises coming to those who think they are going to resist the existing Federal immigration laws.
    These are the facts.
    Get ready to face them.

  9. You can say goodbye to the midterms.
    The Republican party will maintain control of the House of Representatives and the Senate.
    Have you ever wondered why you liberals have been completely removed from power in America?
    I’ll tell you why.
    Americans are tired of your lawless behavior.

    • “Lawless behavior?” Like what? Protesting the abuse of our Constitution?

      Are you saying that over 600 violent criminals convicted of assaulting cops on Jan 6 were not released into our communities?

      You MAGAts are literally the last people to complain about “lawless behavior.”

  10. 805 UndocuFund Executive Director Primitiva Hernandez. “We all saw the tanks and helicopters coming down the 101.

    This is a lie! Truth has gone out the window by both sides and the media concerning the immigration issue.

    Mexican flags and violence by some demonstrators play into Trumps hands! He governs by chaos! The National Guard and the Marines have not been involved with law enforcement on the streets of LA. Both sides need to step back and do a
    re-think of their actions or this will escalate into terrible consequences and people will die.

  11. Lot’s of heat going on here! Let’s all chill, maybe look at opposing points of view (including news sources) and stop talking about future events as facts when they haven’t happened yet. Projecting wishes is just that, so take a breath. If anyone is unhappy about what is going on, you can buy a ticket to attend the 6/14/25 birthday parade in DC or, get to know your neighbors closer to home at Chase Palm Park and hold hands. See you down the street!

    • Every action is one step further toward full dictatorship. Demanding personal loyalty from the troops is as Un-American as it gets.

      They should only loyal to the Constitution. Not the president.

      It is good to know though, there are plenty of battle hardened and experienced generals that hate Trump and would be ready to lead a resistance. That once unimaginable reality is getting terrifyingly close.

    • Shameful indeed. Thanks for this link.

      “”This has been a bad week for the Army for anyone who cares about us being a neutral institution,” one commander at Fort Bragg told Military.com on the condition of anonymity to avoid retaliation. “This was shameful. I don’t expect anything to come out of it, but I hope maybe we can learn from it long term.”

      Experts were quick to come out and say that the public silence from military leadership is a missed opportunity to reinforce the military’s nonpartisan nature. Meanwhile, the political leadership at the head of the Defense Department was far from apologetic.”

    • Don’t downvote Rubaiyat. He’s stated a full truth. It’s put crudely because it is crude. My food is picked by immigrants whose legal status I don’t know, every restaurant employs immigrants legal and not, and my yard is tended by a Mexican legal immigrant whose daughter is a MPH (Masters in Public Health specializing in epidemiology) from UCSD, employed by the CA Dept. Public Health. She’s doing work good for society. He works hard and owns a house in Ventura. Do you?!

      • Sure–but it’s totally disingenuous. Literally none of these people that are howling for deportation of people here illegally give a single crap about the people who do the low paying tough jobs in this country.

        If you don’t care about people being illegally detained and deported to third world prisons then I am totally confident that you also don’t care about the people that pick your food. If you don’t care about the President of the United States intentionally violating the constitution repeatedly, then you absolutely don’t care about people who are breaking civil law on par with jaywalking.

        So take your false concern and put it where it belongs.

    • RUBY – as snobbish and awful as you put it, it IS a good point.

      I don’t see any Americans lining up to pick fruit/veg in the blazing sun for pennies. White Americans in red states make up the largest population of welfare/social benefits recipients. I wonder if they’ll hop to it now that they can’t whine about “iMmAGrUnTs tAKiN’ mUh jOBs!”

    • I think what you (the general you – conservatives who use this as a “gotcha” point) overlook is this:
      – most liberals don’t consider this work something to be ashamed of
      – we think these workers should be paid fairly
      – we think these workers should have a path to citizenship

  12. Just like 2020, Guards sleeping on the floor. Sorry to link to xwitter, but I saw this in an article that linked to pay walled San Francisco Chronicle.

    “Newsom has described the deployment as “a provocation, not just an escalation” and accused the White House of mistreating the service members it was activating. A widely circulated photograph, later confirmed as authentic by the Pentagon, showed national guard members sleeping on a concrete loading dock floor without bedding, and the San Francisco Chronicle reported that the troops arrived with no lodging, insufficient portable toilets and no funds for food or water.”
    Oh. Link doesn’t come through in the copied paragraph…

    https://x.com/GavinNewsom/status/1932157825117208729
    https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/la-protests-soldiers-sleeping-on-floor/
    Or search “photo national guard sleeping on floor”

    • Stephen Miller (the Dracula of the administration) wants THREE THOUSAND DEPORTATIONS A DAY. Thus the insanity of arresting as many as possible in any way possible.
      Lots of news about this, search “stephen miller wants how many deportations a day”

      “WASHINGTON — In mid-May, White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, frustrated over what he saw as numbers of arrests and deportations of unauthorized immigrants that were too low, berated and threatened to fire senior Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials if they did not begin detaining 3,000 migrants a day, according to two sources who spoke to attendees.

      Miller also threatened to fire leaders of field offices posting the bottom 10% of arrest numbers monthly, the two sources said.
      Weeks later, ICE is launching the Trump administration’s largest immigration crackdown.

      “Operation At Large,” a nationwide, ICE-led plan already underway to ramp up arrests of unauthorized immigrants, includes more than 5,000 personnel from across federal law enforcement agencies and up to 21,000 National Guard troops, according to an operation plan described to NBC News by three sources with knowledge of the personnel allocations who detailed the previously unreported plans.

      Drawing those numbers from other law enforcement agencies, though, has been a source of tension among some officials, who feel they have been taken off other core national security missions, according to three additional law enforcement and military officials. Like others interviewed for this article, they requested anonymity in order to share sensitive information.

      It is the latest example of how President Donald Trump’s push for mass deportations is reshaping federal law enforcement as officials shift resources toward immigration-related cases — including nonviolent administrative offenses — leaving less time and attention for other types of criminal investigations.”
      https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/ice-operation-trump-focus-immigration-reshape-federal-law-enforcement-rcna193494

    • SURFGOOSE – 1) I doubt that’s true. Do you have something to back that claim with? 2) The “fervor” is about the gestapo-like tactics being used to deport (rather, expel) people from our country. Unidentified, heavily armed masked men yanking elderly people off the streets in front of churches, ripping parents from their childrens arms in front of schools, harassing and detaining hard-working, tax-paying immigrants with NO criminal records and detaining them with NO access to their families or attorneys before being deported/trafficked out of our country WITHOUT DUE PROCESS.

      THAT is what the fervor is about. You’d have to have been living under a rock for a few months to not understand that. Well, that or you get your news from Truth Social and Facebook memes.

      • Im not interested in anecdotes or opinion pieces. According to ICE they deported 271,484 foreigners last year. It wouldn’t have been difficult to find a sob story or two among the 22,000+ monthly instances of deportations to boost clicks for advertising bucks on news sites but I never noticed this level of hysteria. Just my personal observation.

    • SAIL – that’s utter horseshift. Read the news. Obama did nothing like this.

      Are all you MAGAts just purposefully ignoring actual, live news?

      When Trump tells you to chew your own fingers off at 3am on Truth Social in all caps, at least use some disinfectant (or whatever brand of cattle toothpaste or monkey laxatives RFK recommends) before you do it.

      • I did and do read the news. I actually read both sides to get a more complete view of the truth. Your so very right Obama did nothing. He just talked the talk. Go back and watch his speeches. Its like Trump wrote them.

        Sad to see you regress to name calling instead of civil dialog. Doesn’t help anything and is not becoming.

        • LOL, so which is it. Obama “did nothing” or “Obama did what Trump is doing people are only mad because it’s Trump.”

          Carrying water for fascists who repeatedly violate the constitution is “not becoming.”

        • SAIL – name calling? Where? Oh, MAGAts…. oh boo hoo.

          And if you really read the news, how is it you have no idea what Obama did or didn’t do?

          I mean, hell man… do you really believe Obama did this too?

          One question and we’re done: Did Obama violate a court order and ship 200 immigrants with NO CRIMINAL RECORDS (or even 1) to a jungle prison in a country that none of them were from WITHOUT DUE PROCESS?

          Yes or no?

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