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 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.”
SF News Day Around the Bay: Lawmakers OK Bill to Rollback Cannabis Tax to 15%, Awaiting Newsom’s Approval Valkyries Coach Natalie Nakase was awarded ‘Coach of the Year’ and Vs guard Veronica Burton received ‘Most Improved Player;’ nasal sprays containing azelastine may help prevent contracting COVID-19; and the state excise tax on cannabis could go back down to 15% from the current 19% soon.
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 News Trump Administration Deports Livermore Man to Mexico, Even After Federal Judge Ordered Him to Be Kept Here Miguel Angel Lopez has lived in the Bay Area for 27 years, and is father to three US citizens. But the “law and order” Trump administration has ignored legal orders to let him stay here, and he was just deported to Mexico.
SF News ICE Raids on Farms Making Their Way Up to NorCal, Farmworkers Statewide Are Terrified The Los Angeles ICE raids are spreading northward in California, with new workplace raids targeting immigrant farmworkers now taking place along the Central Coast and the San Joaquin Valley, and employees are terrified to go to work.
SF News Saturday Links: US-Born Citizen Detained In Florida Has Been Released Cole Valley's first night market was a big hit on Thursday; San Jose police are searching for a missing teen; and a Georgia man who was detained by ICE in Florida has been released.
SF News Sunday Links: Stranded Astronauts Set To Return Home This Week The astronauts who've been stranded in space for several months are getting picked up by a new crew; the Nintendo store is bringing its second US location to Powell Street; and an American influencer apologized for snatching a baby wombat from its mom in Australia.
SF News ICE Agents Confirmed to Be Carrying Out Operations Sunday In San Jose, Rumored to Be Back on Monday While there is no evidence yet that anyone was detained, San Jose officials have confirmed that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were carrying out some sort of operation Sunday, and a watchdog group says they were back at it Monday morning.
SF Politics Bay Area Japanese-Americans Warn About Trump Using Racist Law For Mass Deportations Japanese Americans in the Bay Area and beyond are understandably upset about Donald Trump talking about reviving a 227-year-old law that was used to round up and incarcerate their relatives during World War II.
SF Politics Fired-Up State AG Rob Bonta Declares He’ll Roadblock the Trump Administration on Deportation Plans In preparing for Trump’s return to power, California Attorney General Rob Bonta sounds like he’s ready to sue the Trump administration at every turn, vowing “We won’t be flat-footed come January,” particularly on mass deportation attempts.
SF News Civil Rights Groups Ask Ninth Circuit to Reconsider Denial of Asylum to Gay Guatemalan After allegedly being beaten, sexually assaulted, threatened by a Guatemalan congressman, and chronically harassed by Guatemalan police, gay Bay Area resident Saul Martinez fled to the United States in 1992. Now, after years
