Federal immigration enforcement operations have ramped up across Southern California, part of the government’s effort to expand agent ranks and increase arrests.

The raids come a day after the White House’s border czar announced that ICE would increase arrests in California and other sanctuary jurisdictions. Courts in the state, however, have previously ruled that some enforcement operations violate the U.S. Constitution when agents target individuals based on race, language, or location.

One of the latest operations unfolded at a Home Depot in Pomona, where U.S. Border Patrol agents detained a man suspected of being in the country illegally, according to cellphone video from the scene. The number of people taken into custody there remains unclear.

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