It's been a sad week for thousands of families who have been affected by large-scale Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids on both U.S. coasts.

Here's a roundup of some of the news coverage:

The New York Times ran an editorial yesterday calling for an end to immigration raids after complaints from police department officials on Long Island highlighted the carelessness and callousness with which these operations are executed.

The New York Times (which has been exceptionally thorough in its coverage and analysis of ICE raids and other immigration and detention issues) also reported about a family of U.S. citizens whose home has twice been invaded by armed ICE officers wanting to arrest a man who the family did not even know.

IPA-NY has posted an English translation of a story from local newspaper El Diario/La Prensa about the children left behind on Long Island this week.

The Los Angeles Times reports 600 people have already been deported as a result of raids that arrested 1,327 people in Los Angeles over the past two weeks. The operation surpassed the 1,297 arrests that happened at Swift & Co. meatpacking plants last December. The article describes the final moments one father spent with his children before he was taken into custody.

In the wake of all of these arrests, this story from KATV in Little Rock, Arkansas, is troubling:

One of the differences that took effect when northwest Arkansas police agencies were given authority to arrest those suspected of violating the nation's immigration laws became apparent Wednesday--the names of those detained are secret, so long as police say immigration violations were involved.

The policy became a part of federal law following September 11, 2001, and prevents the release of names of immigration detainees held in state or local jails, even where the release of names would otherwise be authorized or required under state law.

A note of thanks is due to the Detention Watch Network and its members who keep us detention reform advocates apprised of news stories from around the country.