SF News Federal Judge In Hawaii Halts Trump's Third Attempt At A Travel Ban Amidst all the recent discussion of sanctuary cities, Dreamers and DACA, you may have forgotten that President Trump's other controversial move impacting immigrants and travelers into the US, primarily those from Muslim-majority nations,
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 San Francisco Will Cover DACA Renewal Fees Ahead Of October Deadline The SF Mayor's Office of Civic Engagement and Immigrant Affairs is offering to cover the cost of renewal application fees for all Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients in the city, ahead
SF News UC Berkeley Students Find Anti-LGBTQ, Anti-Immigration, Anti-Abortion Chalk Graffiti On Campus Late last night, UC Berkeley students found Sproul Plaza covered in chalk graffiti containing hateful anti-LGBTQ, anti-immigration, anti-abortion messages. A few of the tags read: "Illegals, ICE is coming"; "Build a wall, deport
SF News Nancy Pelosi Run Out of Her Own Press Conference By DACA Activists VIDEO: Chaos at @NancyPelosi #DACA event as 40+ undocumented hijack her news conf in SF: "We are not your bargaining chip! Let us speak!" pic.twitter.com/KC2WyrjqSy— Doug Sovern (@SovernNation) September 18,
SF News Dreamers File Lawsuit Against Trump Administration's Move to End DACA The resistance to Trump's rescinding of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (or DACA) program continues today as San Diego-based attorney Dulce Garcia files a lawsuit in San Francisco federal court against the
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 Photos: Thousands Protest DACA Repeal Outside SF Federal Building #SFDACA rally #HappeningNow pic.twitter.com/SVea0ijG8k— Lisa Amin Gulezian (@LisaAminABC7) September 6, 2017 Thousands of people turned out for a hastily called protest Tuesday evening outside the federal building at Seventh and
SF News Bay Area Residents React To Trump Killing 'Dreamers' Program, Protests Planned As was already reported he would do, President Trump made official Tuesday his decision to end DACA, or the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, a.k.a. the "Dreamers" initiative begun under
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 SF And California File Coordinated Lawsuits Against Federal Government Over Trump's Sanctuary City Threats In a second attempt to thwart the Trump Administration's efforts to punish so-called sanctuary jurisdictions and force them to comply with federal immigration enforcement efforts, the City of San Francisco and the State
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 Kate Steinle Murder Trial Possibly Getting Postponed The defendant in the murder case of Kathryn Steinle, who was fatally shot two years ago on Pier 14, made an appearance in court Friday, and as the Mercury News reports, his attorneys
Arts & Entertainment SF Mime Troupe's <i>Walls</i> Builds High Jinks, Cuteness Around Deportation Anxiety And Racism Tuesday’s July 4’s San Francisco Mime Troupe performance of their new play Walls continues the musical theater group’s multiple-decade tradition of free shows in Dolores Park, but SFist caught this
SF News House Passes 'Kate's Law' To Punish Illegal Immigrants, In The Name Of Kate Steinle President Trump's threats to punish sanctuary cities may have seen some legal setbacks, but the Republican-led House of Representatives has now stepped in to pass two bills cracking down on illegal immigration and
SF News Revised Travel Ban Takes Effect Thursday, Lawyers Camped At SFO The new, revised, and more limited version of President Trump’s travel ban takes effect at 5 p.m. PDT today, and it will not be surprising if, just like the January attempt
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 Once Again, Ninth Circuit Rules Against Trump Travel Ban The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled to leave in place a preliminary injunction halting the revised executive order from President Trump regarding travel from six Muslim-majority nations. Arguments in the case
SF News SFPD Officer Caught On Camera Threatening Bystanders With Deportation Thanks to an undercover reporting operation by NBC Bay Area that had been focusing on the stolen-goods trade that goes on daily at 7th and Market around UN Plaza, one plainclothes SFPD officer
SF News Mad Dad In New Ad Blames Sanctuary City Policy For Son's Death Business is booming for TV ads that blame San Francisco for America's ills, as another such spot is hitting the statewide airwaves this week. Don Rosenberg, seen above, lost his son Drew in
SF News Jeff Sessions Confirms That Sanctuary Cities' Punishment Mostly Just A Wrist-Slap A month after a federal judge in San Francisco told the Trump administration that they could not block federal funding from sanctuary cities like SF that had nothing to do with immigration or
SF News Ninth Circuit Hears Travel Ban Arguments Again Today For the second time in three months, lawyers for the Trump Administration are presenting arguments in support of the president's executive order temporarily banning travel and/or immigration from a half dozen Muslim-majority
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Many Bay Area Restaurants, Other Businesses Recognize A 'Day Without Immigrants' By Closing Today The list is growing of Bay Area businesses, in particular restaurants, that are staying closed today in recognition of International Workers' Day (May Day), and marking another Day Without Immigrants something that many
SF News Multiple May Day Protests Planned Monday Around The Bay Area While May Day rallies have traditionally been calls for attention to workers' rights, this year the day is expected to be marked by many demonstrations nationwide focusing on immigrants' rights and resistance to
