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As immigration operations have unfolded across Southern California in the last week, lawyers and advocates say people are being targeted because of their skin color.

She said, for example, that the kids know what to do if ICE officers come to their house and which lawyers to call if their father is detained.

In the dock, Kurashov sat largely mute as his former unit mates testified against him, speaking only occasionally to his lawyer through a slim gap in the enclosure's door.

“We are trying to recover from colonization,” said Amy Bowers Cordalis, a lawyer for the tribe and executive director of the Ridges to Riffles Indigenous Conservation Group.

She was a victim of so-called notario fraud, in which scammers acting as lawyers extract large sums from vulnerable immigrants.