Feds investigate congressman’s actions at California ICE raid

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche on Sunday said his department was investigating claims that U.S. Rep Salud Carbajal, D-Calif., doxxed a federal immigration agent. Agents at the scene accused Carbajal of sharing the agent’s business card with his personal information with protesters at the scene of a recent central California immigration raid, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

ICE also said that Carbajal mischaracterized the protests as peaceful. Protesters injured the allegedly doxxed agent with rocks, according to ICE. The FBI previously offered a reward for information about one protester who allegedly fired a pistol at the agents.

How did Carbajal respond? The congressman said the doxxing claim was an attempt to deflect attention from ICE’s aggressive tactics. He arrived at the site of the raid to provide answers for his constituents, he said. Carbajal also repeated his earlier claim that agents threw a stun grenade into the crowd, injuring a child.

Any other updates on the California raid? Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott on Saturday said one illegal immigrant apprehended at a marijuana facility had a criminal history that included a conviction of kidnapping, attempted rape, and attempted child molestation. The man was working at the same farm as 10 children, one of whom was 14 years old, Scott said. The commissioner did not say whether the man had previously completed his 7-year prison sentence for the charges. 

Dig deeper: Read my report on the California raid and surrounding protests.