SF News ICE Presence at Bay Area Immigration Courts Alarms Advocates ICE agents were seen in the hallways and waiting areas of courthouses in San Francisco, Sacramento, and Concord throughout the past week. One man was reportedly arrested outside the Concord court on Wednesday.
SF News Sunday Links: ICE Arrests California Father While His Children Wait Alone at Gas Station All 15 of Newsom's podcasts feature men, except for one that includes a man and a woman; two brothers were rescued from the surf at Ocean Beach; and ICE arrested a father and left his children alone in the car during a recent rash of raids along Central Coast.
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 Day Around The Bay: Officials Introduce Bill Prohibiting ICE From California Schools Without Warrant California Tesla owners claim that Tesla alters odometers to speed up warranty expiration; police were called to three different Bay Area schools on Friday; and officials have introduced a bill keeping ICE off CA school campuses.
Business & Tech Sonoma-Serving Budget Airline Avelo Shuts Down Flights, Becomes Trump Deportation Contractor A budget airline that made a hub of Santa Rosa's Charles M. Schulz Airport is closing that hub and turning its attention to providing charter flights for deported migrants out of Arizona, under contract with the federal government.
SF News Day Around the Bay: ICE Reportedly Sending Contractors Out In East Bay Heklina's friends and supporters turned out to demonstrate in London; Rep. Lateefah Simon says that ICE contractors are knocking on doors in the East Bay; and Presidio trails are closed for coyote pupping season.
SF News SF Law Firm at Forefront of Fighting Back Against Trump’s Attempts to Punish Legal Industry As Donald Trump’s executive orders target law firms that have taken on his administration, many big firms are cowering and backing down. Others are doubling down on their mission, like one here in San Francisco that's fighting the legality of ICE raids.
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