Immigration agents arrested more people in Northern California in July 2026 than in any month since the current administration took office, according to a KQED analysis of Deportation Data Project records. In Sacramento County alone, ICE has picked up at least 429 people since January 2025, a jump of more than 260 percent over the same stretch under the last administration. Two hundred sixty-five of those arrests carry no location more specific than the database label “General Area.” NorCal Resist has spent that stretch tracking exactly where those arrests land anyway: outside school drop-off lines, at gas stations, in parking lots, the ordinary places people move through on an ordinary day. 
This month, the Mutual Aid General Fund extends $550 in financial solidarity to NorCal Resist, an all-volunteer collective organizing across Sacramento, Davis, and Chico.
NorCal Resist runs Migra Watch, a hotline where someone can text or call, and a trained volunteer goes to confirm whether it’s actually ICE, because rumor moves faster than any raid. NorCal Resist’s program director, Giselle Garcia, has watched the agents shift tactics over the past year, trading marked federal vehicles for unmarked ones, the agency name only visible once they’re already out of the car in a vest. The group also runs a bail fund that covers bond in full for people held by ICE or arrested on protest charges, taking none of the cut a bail bondsman would. It holds monthly food and diaper distributions that reached almost 6,000 neighbors in 2022 alone, handing out thousands of pounds of groceries alongside diapers, know-your-rights trainings, and court accompaniment. Through the regional Rapid Response Network, when a family gets swept up, staff connect them to legal help fast.
NorCal Resist was the Mutual Aid General Fund’s first recipient, back in August 2024. We returned in July 2025. This makes three. Their Rapid Response Hotline now covers eight counties. Their bail fund still posts bonds for free, so people get to fight ICE and protest charges from home instead of a jail cell. Court watch volunteers keep showing up to document what happens when the building goes on lockdown. $550 goes toward whichever of those costs the most this week.