\n\t\tWatch 17 News, After Sunrise and more local news free on your smart TV. Click to learn more about KGET+\t<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cTo see it happen in real life is just scary,\u201d Reyna said.<\/p>\n
Kern Rapid Response is a volunteer network that receives calls from community members on ICE activity.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey really have skyrocketed since the beginning of October, at least double or triple,\u201d said Rosa Lopez, a senior policy advocate and organizer with the American Civil Liberties Union. <\/p>\n
Empty restaurants in Arvin are getting calls too, residents checking in on where ICE officers might be.<\/p>\n
Kern Rapid Response said 10 to 20 individuals have been detained by ICE in Kern County already.<\/p>\n
\u201cI live here in Wasco, California, and I feel like it\u2019s a shame that they\u2019re targeting us for our skin, for our nationality, for being Hispanics, for being immigrants. I go, I think that\u2019s really, really, really sad,\u201d Karla Hernandez, another Wasco resident, said.<\/p>\n
The more time passes, the more outrage grows.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A demonstration of that in front of the Padre Hotel, amid rumors that ICE agents were staying at the hotel.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want ICE to get out of Bakersfield, out of America, because they\u2019re clearly deporting people that are hardworking and they\u2019re not deporting the criminals,\u201d said Melody Molina, a protestor.<\/p>\n
More videos, pictures, detainments are being seen across the county \u2014 all ahead of a critical election.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re doing it intentionally. They\u2019re just trying to scare us. Vote, vote and let it get all these people out of where they\u2019re at right now,\u201d Hernandez said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 It\u2019s been a rapid increase in just a few weeks. \u201cIt\u2019s scary. It\u2019s really…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-504523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}