SF News [Update] Rally Over ICE Detention Center Conditions Turns Into March That Shuts Down Market Street A noon rally in SF outside Sen. Feinstein's office quickly became a large protest that shut down Market Street and proceeded to 7th and Mission.
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 SF Officials Call Trump 'Morally Bankrupt' After Threat To Send Undocumented Detainees To Sanctuary Cities President Trump lobbed a new threat on Twitter Friday, pledging to punish "The Radical Left" by "placing Illegal Immigrants in Sanctuary Cities only." In related news, the president remains a fan of randomly capitalizing words.
SF News Tech Companies Come Out In Force Against Trump's DACA Decision Many of tech's biggest companies are banding together to resist President Trump's stated decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program. Per CNet's
SF News Police Who Responded To Kate Steinle Shooting Testify In Third Day Of Trial The second and third day of the Kate Steinle murder trial brought witness testimony from those who saw the shooting and its aftermath, and the police officers who first responded to the emergency
SF News Sonoma County Sheriff Blasts ICE And Breitbart For 'Misleading, Inflammatory' Statements About Immigrant Arson Suspect In response to a Breitbart article and a subsequent press release from the federal agency that enforces the country's immigration laws both of which suggested that an undocumented man who was
SF News Potential Jurors For Kate Steinle Murder Trial Instructed To Leave Immigration Debate 'Off The Table' The jury selection process in the case of Jose Inez Garcia-Zarate's alleged murder of Kate Steinle has crossed another milestone today, as prospective jurors sat before a San Francisco Superior
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
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
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&
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)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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