ICE used Eastmont Mall parking lot to transfer a detainee, say advocates ⁠26%

By Roselyn Romero⁠30%

8/3/2026, 4:11:11 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 20 faulty reasoning types, including Unattributed Quote, Appeal to Authority, and Hasty Generalization, with Anecdotal as the most egregious example at 22.5% saturation with 141 hits. Analysis detected 848 faulty-reasoning hits from 626 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 32.1% and a BS Rank of ⁠26% (20,087 of 26,821 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 74.90% of the article peer group.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers may be using the Eastmont Mall parking lot in Oakland to transfer detainees, according to immigrant rights advocates. 
The Alameda County Immigration Legal and Education Partnership, or ACILEP, said in an Instagram post on July 30 that a person detained by ICE in June reported being taken to the Eastmont Mall’s Parking Lot C before they were transported to the agency’s processing center in San Francisco. 
Lot C is on the lower level of the mall’s parking structure, in front of the Center for Elders’ Independence on Bancroft Avenue. 
Immigrant advocates have warned that enforcement at and near sensitive locations, like healthcare facilities, courthouses, social work agencies, and schools, could harm people by scaring them away from critical services and worsen public safety. 
ACILEP said it has not confirmed any other Alameda County arrests involving similar parking lot transfers. 
ICE did not respond to questions from The Oaklandside about the reported transfer and whether its agents have used the parking lot during immigration enforcement operations. 
The shopping center is also home to the Eastmont Wellness Center, a medical clinic operated by Alameda Health System that serves many immigrants, refugees, and low-income residents. 
AHS spokesperson Victoria Balladares said security staff were unaware of any ICE activity at the mall last month. 
Balladares said AHS has protocols instructing its staff what to do if immigration agents appear at any of its facilities. 
Staff are supposed to immediately notify an on-call administrator, who coordinates the response and reviews requests for access. 
AHS has designated patient care and restricted staff areas as nonpublic spaces. 
Under SB 81, immigration agents may not enter those areas without a judicial warrant or court order. 
The health system also provides ongoing training and written guidance to help staff respond to interactions with immigration officers. 
“Our goal is to ensure that staff have the guidance and tools needed to provide safe and respectful care while appropriately responding to requests from law enforcement agencies, including immigration enforcement personnel,” Balladares wrote in an email to The Oaklandside. 
The Oakland Police Department’s Eastmont Substation is also located at the shopping center. 
Asked about the reported June transfer, OPD said that “under normal circumstances,” outside law enforcement agencies, including ICE, notify the department of their general location and activities when conducting enforcement actions within city limits. 
The department did not answer questions about whether ICE notified OPD before the reported enforcement activity at Eastmont Mall. 
Oakland prohibits its officers from assisting ICE with civil immigration enforcement or detaining people for suspected civil immigration violations. 
Officers also may not investigate or use department resources to investigate someone’s immigration status. 
ACILEP encourages anyone who suspects ICE activity at Eastmont Mall or elsewhere in Alameda County to call its rapid response hotline at 510-241-4011. 
The organization’s warning came a week after ICE officers arrested Oakland resident Chantal Morales Rojas while she was boarding a flight at the Denver International Airport. 
She was held for 10 days at Colorado’s Aurora ICE Processing Center and was released Thursday. 
Her arrest appeared to be part of a crackdown by the Trump administration across airports nationwide. 
Over the past year and a half, there have been several immigration enforcement actions in Oakland recorded by bystanders and tracked by advocates. 
In March, a truck driver who had applied for a green card was arrested by federal agents at the Port of Oakland; his employer did not know where he was taken. 
In November 2025, ICE targeted a man who was dropping off a child at Hoover Elementary School in West Oakland, causing a car crash. 
Last September, ICE agents arrested a man leaving the Wiley Manuel Courthouse in downtown Oakland. 
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Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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