SAN JOSE – Around 50 people gathered Friday afternoon to protest an increase in Immigration and Customs Enforcement in San Jose, blasting the agency for making arrests outside courtrooms and in plainclothes and calling on public officials to take action.

Since immigration agents detained his wife in New Orleans last month, a Marine veteran has ferried the couple's nine-week-old daughter a north Louisiana detention facility while the family waits to learn whether she will be deported.

One woman who was detained was later released until Citizenship and Immigration Services officials can review her residency application.

With migrant communities already living in fear amid the Trump administration's immigration crackdown, ICE raids in downtown Los Angeles sparked days of protests.

Lawyers with DHS are deploying a novel legal maneuver in an attempt to step up removal of immigrants, immigration lawyers say.

Federal agents are arresting migrants outside courtrooms following asylum hearings as part of a new ICE strategy to get immigration cases dropped and fast-track deportations.

Valdiney Goncalves had been in the process of obtaining a green card for five years when immigration officials detained him.