SF Politics Federal Judge Orders Homeland Security to Stop Arresting Immigrants at Courts In Northern California A federal judge who previously ruled that conditions at San Francisco's ICE facility are inhumane, has now temporarily halted all arrests of immigrants at courthouses in Northern California and the Pacific Islands, citing lack of due process and violations of civil rights.
SF News Sunday Links: SF Also Had a Huge Outage on December 20 in 2003, Starting at the Same PG&E Substation If you bought gas from any Bay Area 7-Elevens recently, make sure you weren't charged 100 times what you paid; the SF immigration court is down to four judges from 21; and a third of the city also lost power 22 years ago, also on a Saturday, December 20.
SF News Faith Leaders Arrested After Dozens Chain Themselves Outside SF Immigration Court A group of protesters from interfaith groups arrived Tuesday in the predawn hours outside the federal facility at 630 Sansome Street in San Francisco where immigrants arriving for immigration court dates have been summarily swept into detention facilities since May.
SF News Federal Judge Orders ICE to Stop Holding Immigrants at 630 Sansome Due to Inhumane Conditions A federal judge has ordered Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to cease detaining immigrants at its downtown San Francisco facility due to unsanitary and inhumane conditions in the facility.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Trump Fires Five More SF Immigration Judges, to Hire ‘Deportation Judges’ Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene announced her retirement after her public falling out with Trump; ICE agents were turned away at a Hayward elementary school Friday; and Trump has fired five additional SF immigration judges to be replaced by “deportation judges.”
SF News California Revokes 17,000 Immigrants’ Commercial Driver’s Licenses After Pressure From Trump Administration More than 17,000 California commercial driver’s licenses issued to immigrants have been revoked, as the state speeds up to comply with new federal rules that driver’s licenses can’t be valid for those no longer legally allowed to be in the US.
SF Politics SF’s Trumper Archbishop Rebukes Trump For Once, Condemns Immigration Crackdown The new “woke pope” seems to be trickling his wokeness down to even the ultraconservative Archbishop of San Francisco, who just joined more than 200 other US bishops in condemning Trump’s immigration crackdown.
SF News 26-Year-Old U-Haul Driver Described By Other Protesters as 'Lone Actor' Charged With Assaulting Federal Officers A 26-year-old man is now facing federal charges for a bizarre act that capped off a mostly peaceful day of protests outside the Coast Guard facility where federal agents were being staged for a local operation that called off by President Trump.
SF Politics Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee Gets Confirmation That No Immigration Operations Are Happening In Bay Area Oakland Mayor and former Congresswoman Barbara Lee never had the pleasure of a phone call from President Trump on Wednesday. But she now says that she has otherwise been able to confirm that no immigration-arrest "surges" are happening in the Bay Area, full stop.
SF News Protesters Gather Near Coast Guard Island In Alameda Ahead of Immigration Operation, at Least Two Already Injured Ahead of a planned immigrant round-up operation by federal agents in the Bay Area that seems likely to look like previous operations in Southern California, protesters gathered early Thursday morning outside the agents' staging area on Alameda's Coast Guard Island.
SF News Trump's Federal Invasion of San Francisco to Begin on Thursday It's unclear if or how the National Guard might be involved, but apparently a large contingent of federal agents, including US Customs and Border Protection personnel, is headed to the Bay Area on Thursday for some sort of operation.
SF News Newsom Signs Bill Allowing Immigrant Parents to Name Caretakers for Their Kids If They’re Deported Governor Gavin Newsom just signed a fairly sensible-sounding bill allowing immigrant parents to name a caregiver for their kids in case they are deported. Crazed conservatives are reacting by calling it the “Legalized Child Kidnapping Bill.”
Politics [Update] Deployment of California National Guard Members to Portland Halted by Judge Governor Newsom announced Sunday that Trump deployed California National Guard members to assist law enforcement in Portland. The move was later blocked by a Trump-appointed federal judge who had previously blocked the president from federalizing Oregon troops.
SF News Saturday Links: Climber’s Death on El Capitan Inadvertently Livestreamed by TikToker One speed camera in SF’s South Beach generates a quarter of the city’s tickets; a fake Mission District lawyer and MAGA supporter won’t stop giving legal advice to immigrants; and the sole witness to climber Balin Miller’s death also livestreamed it.
SF News Seemingly Bogus Mission District Immigration Attorney Fined $600,000 for Unlicensed Work The Mission District storefront that claims to house a “Law Group” does not, in fact, have any attorneys, and a court just ruled they have to pay $600,000 for conning payments from immigrants seeking legal services for years.
Politics Newsom Signs Bills Protecting Rights of California Immigrants, Including Ban on Masks for Officers Governor Newsom signed a series of bills Saturday that aim to keep local and federal law enforcement in check during immigration crackdowns in California. Officers can no longer wear masks during official duties and will be required to identify themselves.
SF News US Citizen and SF Native Arrested by ICE After Protest We are now at the point where ICE agents are apparently arresting and detaining US citizens, as a San Francisco native became the third US citizen ICE agents have arrested this month in SF, though she was released on Thursday.
SF News Livermore Father Deported By ICE Gets Some Help From Congressman Eric Swalwell, Awaits Hearing In October A Livermore man who has lived in the Bay Area his entire adult life and raised three children here remains in Mexico, where he has no family, after being deported, while his wife and family here await his next immigration hearing.
SF Politics Trump Administration on Spree of Firing Immigration Judges, Even While They’re Trying to Hire More More than 50 immigration judges, including a number in the Bay Area, have been fired nationwide since Trump took office in January, even while the government is simultaneously hiring more immigration judges, just probably Trumpier ones.
SF Politics Federal Court Hearing Concludes Regarding Trump's Deployment of National Guard Troops in LA A federal court case with major implications for Donald Trump's agenda — namely his stated intent to send federal troops into US cities run by Democrats that he perceives to be crime-ridden — had its three-day hearing this week.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Veteran Bay Area Reporter Pam Moore Honored With Hall of Fame Induction The recent wave of dildo-throwing incidents at WNBA games appear to be connected to a new memecoin; lawyers are using habeas corpus petitions to get asylum seekers released from detention quickly; and retired veteran news anchor Pam Moore received a Hall of Fame induction Friday.
SF News San Jose Tattoo Artist and Activist Who Was Fighting Deportation Gets Arrested for Alleged Attempted Carjacking An immigrants' rights activist who had rallied significant community support in recent weeks as he fought his own potential deportation, was arrested in Berkeley on Sunday for allegedly trying to steal several cars.
SF News Sunday Links: Northern California Safeway Workers Win Last-Minute Deal to Avert Strike A man who jumped from a rope swing into the Russian River is presumed dead; the federal government has released over $6 billion in previously frozen education grants after weeks of backlash; and the Safeway strike was averted after a tentative deal.
SF News Saturday Links: Nurses, Parents Protest Kaiser’s Pause on Trans Youth Surgical Care The Safeway strike deadline has been extended; ICE detained all the adults at SF immigration court without children on Friday; and Kaiser staff rallied in SF on Friday over the company's recent pause on gender-affirming care for youth.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 20,000 Safeway Workers Could Strike Saturday if Deal Not Met A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to reinstate support services to immigrant families separated at the border; a 16-foot-wide Instagrammable ‘Heart SF’ sign has been unveiled downtown; and Northern California Safeway employees brace for a potential strike.
