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But even as DHS dropped the charges against him, it brought new ones against Representative Imani MacGyver, one of the lawmakers he had been with.

“DHS enforcement operations are highly targeted, and officers do their due diligence,” she said.

The governors, he said, spoke about complying with federal law in contacting DHS over immigrants arrested and convicted of felonies — but also how they wouldn’t contact Immigration and Customs Enforcement if someone hadn’t yet received due process.

A worker at the tiny home village, who requested anonymity because he has family members who are undocumented, told The Times that he was returning from lunch when he spotted two DHS SUVs with tinted windows down the block.

City Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez said that community organizations and local elected officials have been sorting through reports of DHS sightings to see if they are credible.