San Diego just recorded its highest month of ICE arrests on record: 1,952 in July alone, up from 662 the year before, according to data from UC Berkeley and UCLA’s Deportation Data Project. Across California, over 70% of those detained had no prior criminal convictions. The surge is centered in California’s 48th Congressional District, where Republican Jim Desmond and Democrat Marni von Wilpert offer two fundamentally opposing approaches to federal immigration enforcement. Desmond backs continued cooperation with ICE, while von Wilpert is pushing to limit it. Now voters are asking the important question: which candidate’s approach do you think better serves the district?
