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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

ICE Agents Descend On Mission's Good Samaritan Center

The immigration crackdown has begun, and some ICE agents, possibly emboldened or directed by the new Trump regime, conducted a rare raid in San Francisco Thursday, descending upon the Good Samaritan Family Resource

Family Of Man Shot While Painting Oakland Mural Files Claim Against Feds Over Stolen Gun

Oakland Muralist Antonio Ramos was painting an anti-violence mural in West Oakland when he was shot and killed last September with a gun stolen from the car of a US Immigration and

ICE Agent Leaves Gun On Top Of Car, Drives Off, Loses Gun

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent reported his handgun missing after leaving it on the roof of his car and driving away, much like your mom did with a cup of coffee that

Suspect In Attempted Muni Child Abduction Has Past 'False Imprisonment' Convictions

A week after an Oakland man was accused of trying to abduct a toddler from a Muni bus, prosecutors have revealed that the suspect has multiple kidnapping and domestic violence charges in his

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

Last Chance To Use Midnight Sun's Ice Trough, Fellas!

Attention all trough queens: Midnight Sun is getting a much-needed facelift. The gay video bar will get windows and a lounge area in the front -- did you know it's one

Tweaked Anti-Meth Campaign Posters

Gay men and uppers go together like peanut butter and chocolate. It's just the way God wanted it. But that hasn't stopped Joel Schumacher's "I Lost

We Lost Sonoma County to Meth, Drug Bust Biggest In Years

What's brilliant about Wine Country is that it's secretly a methamphatimine-making hot spot. No amount of police presence and Fume Blanc tastings will change that fact. Take, for