Border-crossing journalism from the Sacramento Valley
REDDING, Calif. — An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Redding, about 160 miles north of Sacramento in largely rural Shasta County, has been detaining noncitizens for years, federal government data shows.
The data also indicates that the rate at which immigrants were being detained at the facility significantly increased after President Donald Trump was inaugurated. Only about half of those detained since then have had a criminal record.
An all-day literary festival will be held on the last day of February at The Allies Pub in downtown Chico.
The Allies Lit Fest, beginning at 11 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 28, will be a celebration of “local writers, readers and the power of words,” said pub proprietor Steve Kay.
Kay emphasized that the festival, which is free and public, is not an academic conference, but rather “an approachable, social, multi-generational, pub-friendly, rooted-in-lived-experience” affair.
A public hearing at the Feb. 3 City Council meeting featured Public Works employees in their orange jackets and a discussion on whether more of their work could be “outsourced.”
About 30 Public Works employees sat on the east side of the Chamber as a department administrator explained that outsourcing some services could in fact raise costs and reduce reliability.
Skyler Lipski, director of operations and maintenance for the Public Works department, noted that approximately 30 percent of the department’s services are already outsourced.
Corning resident Glenna Secreto was scheduled to have a post-surgery check-up at Tarichi Primary Care in Corning last month. However, on Jan. 14, she found the clinic had been shut down a week earlier.
Secreto’s 95-year-old mother, Ada Boatman, had an appointment at the same clinic that morning. When Boatman reached the clinic, she saw the door locked, people pulling up for appointments, and a posted notice.
Secreto later found a new clinic for herself and her mom, but neither of them could get an appointment until the end of February when her mom will be able to get needed medications. Secreto, though, had to make a drive of more than two hours to St. Helena for her post-surgery check-up.
This story was first posted Jan. 31 and updated Feb. 2
Three days of protest in Chico began with Jan. 30 student walkouts to protest immigration enforcement tactics. And the culmination was a Feb. 1 candlelight vigil organized by local nurses and their national union to honor people who have been killed by federal agents.
The vigil drew at least 200 protesters who lined the Esplanade across from Enloe Medical Center, many wearing red and some carrying signs paying tribute to Minneapolis ICU nurse Alex Pretti.
