SF Politics Justice Department Seeks Lists of Undocumented Jail Inmates From SF Sheriff and Others in CA The Trump administration is going to try to have a showy showdown over sanctuary policies in California, and likely elsewhere, and they're now setting their sights on county jails and sheriffs in large jurisdictions.
SF News San Jose Activist and Tattoo Artist Wins Brief Reprieve From ICE Detention, Judge to Rule on Case Thursday The complicated story of a 31-year-old San Jose man who has been in this country, undocumented, since he was six years old, has drawn hundreds of supporters as he faces possible deportation.
SF News How California Volunteers Are Supporting Immigrants and Responding to ICE Across California, advocates are supporting immigrants at risk of detention by attending court, monitoring ICE activity, helping with legal paperwork, and assisting families with online hearing requests.
SF News Cannabis Farm In SoCal Sees Chaotic ICE Raid; Subsequent Protest Met With Tear Gas A chaotic scene on California's Central Coast is making the national news Thursday evening as an ICE raid at a cannabis farm was met with a protest, and federal agents and National Guard troops then began deploying tear gas and rubber bullets.
SF News ICE SUV Plows Through Protesters at SF Courthouse, as Protest Turns Ugly An especially brutal incident occurred at an SF immigration courthouse Tuesday morning, as protesters attempted to block an ICE SUV that was apparently transporting an arrested immigrant, and the SUV simply plowed its way through the demonstrators.
SF Politics Military-Style Sweep of City Park in LA Could Be Harbinger of Things to Come With nothing better to do in LA and without a protest to quash, the Trump administration is now using the National Guard to set up a perimeter around a completely peaceful and mostly empty city park, while federal agents on horseback roam around.
SF News SF Drag Performer Was Detained By ICE Heading Into Pride Weekend On Thursday of last week as we were leading up to Pride Weekend, a Guatemalan drag performer living in SF and performing under the stage name Hilary Rivers was detained after showing up for an immigration court hearing.
SF News Fremont Battery Company Allegedly Brought in Unlicensed Chinese Lawyer, Called US Workers ‘Foreigners’ A Fremont battery company with ties to China is accused of calling non-Chinese staff “foreigners,” using unauthorized Chinese workers on B-1 visas, and flying in a Chinese lawyer who's unlicensed in the US to advise on bringing in more illegal hires.
SF News Former Private Prison In SoCal Being Converted Into Largest Migrant Detention Camp In the State The mass-deportation effort by the Trump administration, which is all but certain to cost the American people much more money than it saves — and deprive multiple industries of an able and willing workforce — soldiers on.
Arts & Entertainment Last Week, This Week: Litquake, Drag Bingo, Roller Disco, and Circus Bella Last week: SF is searching for a new Drag Laureate, SoMa's getting the “Four Seasons of bathhouses,” and Rikki's, the Castro's first women's sports bar, is open. This week: Roller disco, drag bingo, Circus Bella, and more.
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 Two Palestinian Men Have Their Visas Invalidated at SFO After Arriving for Interfaith Mission A San Francisco supervisor made an emergency trip to SFO late Wednesday night after learning that two Palestinian men with valid visas who had traveled here to speak at interfaith events around the Bay were being denied entry to the US.
SF News SF Immigration Court Abruptly Closes as Protesters Gather Outside An immigration court in downtown San Francisco shut down early on Tuesday with no explanation given, while protesters and immigration advocates gathered outside — and following the arrests of at least two people by ICE agents.
Business & Tech Waymo Suspends Service In Parts of SF and LA After Its Cars Were Vandalized In ICE Protests Waymo is suspending service Monday in parts of San Francisco and Los Angeles following acts of vandalism on Sunday that targeted the robocars in both cities, amid raucous protests against ICE activities and the Trump administration.
SF News Protest Outside ICE Field Office In SF Leads to 60 Arrests, Vandalism, Two Officers Injured A protest reportedly turned violent Sunday evening after hundreds gathered in downtown San Francisco in solidarity with protesters in Los Angeles who have been facing down National Guard troops deployed by President Trump.
SF News ICE Detains 15 More People at SF Immigration Court, Supervisor Calls It 'Unconscionable' and 'Authoritarian' Immigration agents reportedly detained 15 people Wednesday, including a three-year-old child, outside an immigration court in downtown San Francisco, where people were appearing for annual check-ins on their immigration cases.
SF News Bay Area Father of Three, Who Lived Here 25 Years, Detained By ICE at Routine Appointment In SF This week brings another heart-wrenching story of a local man, who was undocumented but who is married to a US citizen and has spent decades battling to get legal status, who has been thrown into ICE detention.
SF News Sunday Night’s La Onda Headliner Had to Cancel Because Trump Administration Revoked Their Visas Two bands, including Sunday night’s headliner Grupo Firme, were forced to cancel their sets at this weekend’s La Onda festival in Napa, because the Trump administration denied their visas over claims their music “glorifies cartel violence.”
SF News At Least Two Detained In Unusual ICE Action at Federal Court In SF Immigration attorneys are outraged by a highly unusual set of arrests that occurred inside a federal courthouse in San Francisco Tuesday.
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 Politics Trump Administration Now Looking Into Building Immigrant Detention Camp In Solano County As part of its broader plan to use military facilities to house immigrants before systematically deporting them, the Trump administration is reportedly looking into creating a detention camp at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield.
SF News Federal Judge Blocks Trump Order Punishing Sanctuary Cities A lawsuit being led by San Francisco and Santa Clara counties sought an injunction against President Trump's executive order denying federal funds to all cities and counties that decline to cooperate with ICE, and on Thursday, a federal judge granted it.
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 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.
