Restaurants are seeing a significant drop in business as federal immigration raids sweep across the region, and workers are forced to skip work in fear of arrest by ICE.

ICE and National Guard raid California pot farms, detain workers, sparking protests and concerns over deportation policy. This live blog is now closed.

ICE agents boarded a public bus in Santa Ana on Thursday morning, drawing the ire of OC Supervisor Vicente Sarmiento who said such enforcement actions have a chilling effect on public life.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is accusing a California marijuana business of employing minors at a grow facility that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raided on Thursday—an allegation the state-licensed operator is denying following the enforcement action.

A decline in the foreign-born workforce “will keep the potential pool of workers historically tight,” Wells Fargo economists found.

California and a coalition of 17 other states have backed a lawsuit calling for an end to unconstitutional immigration stops in Los Angeles.

Among the report’s central findings are that there are 2.28 million immigrants in California without protected legal status and that deporting these immigrants would cost the California economy

Federal immigration authorities arrested 200 individuals during enforcement operations targeting marijuana farms in Camarillo and Carpinteria on Thursday, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

After closing for two weeks in response to ICE raids in L.A., El Gato Night Market has reopened with cautious vendors and a dwindling customer base.

Worker detentions and fears of federal agents have cut workforces on farms across the country.

Democratic Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal labeled ICE a “terrorist force” ahead of a Monday night town hall. The top Democrat on the House of Representatives immigration subcommittee, Jayapal spent Monday meeting with local immigrants and business owners impacted by ICE raids.