He’s 18. ICE Knows His Name. He’s Still Defending His Community.

In California farm towns, a teenager has become a frontline defender of immigrant families — his own included.

Cesar Vasquez stands in the strawberry fields where his mother once worked.

Most 18-year-olds wake up thinking about exams, deadlines, maybe where they’ll go next year.

Cesar Vasquez wakes up scanning for unmarked SUVs.

Before sunrise in Santa Maria, California — a farming town on the state’s central coast — he drives slowly through quiet streets, eyes fix…