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With limited access to immigrants in detention, US attorneys are scrambling to understand the scope of California’s immigration raids, and the extent to which the Department of Homeland Security has violated immigrants’ rights. Immigration lawyers have said some detainees – including families with small children – were held in a stuffy office basement for days without sufficient food and water. Elsewhere, US immigration officials carried out further “enforcement activity” in California’s agricultural heartland, with one advocacy group saying agents pursued workers through blueberry fields. The raids have sparked ongoing protests in Los Angeles and led to demonstrations in other cities...