A California law bans immigration enforcement at courthouses, but ICE under the Trump administration is detaining people there anyway.

Back off, back off get out of the way Hes in impeding Hes in impeding As social media is awash with videos of federal agents making arrests immigration court hearings, which are on federal property inside federal courthouses.

You're violating his constitutional rights due process.

Local media have reported the detention of at least two dozen people on the grounds of California court buildings in Fresno, Stanislaus, Glen and Los Angeles counties during the last Trump administration.

California Democrats were so concerned about ICE making arrests in Superior Court buildings and potentially discouraging witnesses from testifying that they passed a law to forbid that kind of enforcement, quote, making courthouses a focus of immigration enforcement hinders, rather than helps the administration of justice by deterring witnesses and victims from coming forward and discouraging individuals from asserting their rights.

California Supreme Court Justice Patricia Guerrero said this past summer by waiting outside the courthouse.

Immigration agents appear to be complying with California law, though it's unclear whether the word courthouse and the law include the grounds outside the courthouse.

But in Butte County, officials confirmed to CalMatters that immigration agents actually entered the courthouse in violation of California law.

A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson told CalMatters that the arrests are safer for immigration agents, since the people they're arresting have been through security.

Attorney General Rob Bontas office wouldn't provide what a spokesperson called legal analysis of those actions.

When CalMatters asked about them.

We are very concerned with the Trump administration's actions, which make our communities less safe by deterring victims or witnesses of crimes from coming forward, out of fear of getting caught up in the president's mass deportation dragnet, the California Department of Justice said in an unsigned statement to CalMatters.

For CalMatters, I'm Nigel Duara.