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Blood in the Street

By Brian Campbell

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Santa Barbara Current
Aug 13, 2025
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Santa Barbara: Where Criminals are VIPs and Law Enforcement is Booed

Ah, summer in Santa Barbara.

The sun’s out. Fiesta’s in full swing… kind of.

Local leaders and friendly media outlets sounded the alarm: “ICE might be out this weekend!” as if the Boogeyman himself was coming to crash the party. Suddenly, the city panicked—what if Fiesta attendance suffer…

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