SF News Protesters Want Sonoma County Sheriff to Commit to Ending Cooperation With ICE Sonoma County Sheriff Eddie Engram does not support a proposed ordinance that bans all collaboration with ICE, and his department has worked with ICE in the last year. Protesters want him to change course.
SF News Saturday Links: Amy Tan's Personal Archives Added To U.C. Berkeley's Bancroft Library Collection ESPN announcer misidentifies Golden Gate Bridge; education park ranger writes heartfelt message after sudden firing; California ranks third in the country to be single.
SF News ICE Might Be Looking to Use Shuttered Dublin Women's Prison as Immigrant Detention Center The nightmare of undocumented immigrants being rounded up en masse into camps could be closer to reality than we think, as a rumor is now out there that ICE has been sniffing around FCI Dublin, the shuttered women's prison in the East Bay.
SF News Fake Flyers Falsely Claim ICE Raids in SF, But Feds Go After KCBS for Accurately Reporting Agents’ San Jose Location While the undated flyers claiming ICE raids are happening in SF “tomorrow” have been debunked, a real January 26 report on ICE agents’ location in San Jose has brought an investigation from Trump’s FCC.
SF News City Hall Rallies After at Least Five ICE Operations Were Attempted (and Apparently Failed) In SF The rumors appear to be true that ICE agents tried at least five detention operations in San Francisco over the last few days, but were apparently turned away, and a who’s-who of SF City Hall officials rallied against this Tuesday morning.
SF News Scott Wiener Says That ICE Was In ‘Downtown SF Office Buildings’ as Part of Mass Deportation Operations Details are scarce, but state Senator Scott Wiener claimed today that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were investigating SF office building employees Friday as part of President Trump’s mass deportation sweeps.
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 News SFUSD Superintendent Fuels False Rumor About ICE Agent on Muni Bus As fear continues to spread among immigrant communities across the country about potential deportation by the Trump administration, the San Francisco Unified School District didn't help the situation by spreading a rumor, now proven false, about ICE agents questioning kids on public transit.
SF News ICE Fail: Only 35 Arrests Made Out Of 2,100 Immigrants Targeted Likely due to a month of leaked warnings and an aggressive education campaign by immigrant attorneys and advocates, the planned raids this month on immigrant families by Immigration and Customs Enforcement appear to have been a grand failure.
SF News So What Happened To Those ICE Raids? There was no reported ICE activity in the Bay Area Sunday, though raids may be getting staggered throughout the week to increase the element of surprise. A few arrests were reported in other cities.
SF News Another ICE Protest Planned Downtown Following Thursday evening's protest outside ICE headquarters on Sansome Street, another prayer vigil and rally is scheduled Friday at 11:30 a.m. to protest planned Sunday deportation raids of immigrants' homes.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Rally Outside ICE Headquarters On Sansome A rally is set for 5 p.m. outside ICE's SF headquarters downtown, a 51-year-old man has been found guilty of purposely running down a Tenderloin bicycle cop in 2017, and we now know the tax value of Apple Park.
SF News Postponed ICE Raids Happening In SF On Sunday Raids on undocumented immigrant families in 10 cities that were originally scheduled for last month are now reportedly happening this weekend.
SF News Trump Changes His Mind On ICE Raids, Says They'll Be Delayed Planned ICE raids that were set to happen on Sunday in San Francisco and nine other cities are being delayed by at least two weeks, President Trump says. And it looks like Speaker Pelosi helped get the delay.
SF News ICE Plans To Raid Many Immigrant Families' Homes In San Francisco On Sunday President Trump, in his eagerness to play to his xenophobic base, may have let the cat out of the bag this week about a pending, widespread operation by Immigration and Customs Enforcement — via tweet, of course.
SF News Day Around the Bay: ICE Scouts Detention Facility Sites In Bay Area A driver was assaulted and robbed at a stoplight in the Mission Thursday night, a 31-building residential complex is being designed for the CPMC hospital site on California Street, and there's a "magic" echo chamber in the Montgomery BART station.
SF News ICE Conducts Sweep Of Bay Area Sanctuary Cities, Makes 27 Arrests As part of a nationwide gesture to highlight crime by immigrants in sanctuary cities, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) conducted a sweep this week arresting some 487 undocumented immigrants.
SF News Recent SF Murder Seems Certain To Figure Into Sanctuary City Debate This week we learned more about the murder of 23-year-old Abel Enrique Esquivel, Jr., which happened on August 15 near the intersection of South Van Ness and 26th Street, and which involved a
SF News ICE Agents Failed Pick Up Santa Rosa Man Who Later Beat His Girlfriend To Death Santa Rosa is not a sanctuary city and the Press Democrat recently did an article about this fact. So when undocumented Guatemalan immigrant Nery Estrada-Margos was arrested for beating his girlfriend, Veronica Cabrera
SF News Family Of Slain Muralist Sues ICE Over Stolen Gun The July 2015 killing of Kate Steinle with a federal agent's stolen gun grabbed national headlines, as is often the case when the victim is an attractive white woman. Far less attention was
SF News ICE Director: 'Sanctuary Cities Are A Criminal's Best Friend' In the latest salvo from the Trump Administration against sanctuary city policies, Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Thomas Homan spoke out during a White House press corps briefing Thursday vowing to crack
SF News SF Awards $190K To The Man SFPD Illegally Turned Over To ICE Back in December 2015, a San Francisco man who tried to report a stolen car was turned over to immigration authorities by members of the San Francisco Police Department. The San Francisco Examiner
SF News SFO Staffer Who Creeped On Church While Clad In Fake ICE Jacket Loses Job The San Francisco International Airport employee who freaked out congregants at a Marin County church by photographing them while wearing a jacket that bore a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement logo has lost
SF News SFO Employee Allegedly Dons 'ICE' Jacket, Creeps On Church During Spanish Service An SFO employee who was reportedly upset by the noise coming from a church apparently ordered a "novelty" Immigration and Customs Enforcement jacket and appeared at the place of worship during a Spanish-speaking
SF News How Homeland Security 'Deceived' Santa Cruz Police To Make Immigration Arrests In A Sanctuary City Homeland Security (& other agencies) launch wave of pre-dawn raids across Santa Cruz, said to be targeting gang-affiliated homicide suspects pic.twitter.com/EDbfKHhDjj— Wilson Walker (@Wilson_Walker) February 13, 2017 An episode