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 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 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.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Talks Ketamine With Don Lemon, Says Investors Should Want Him to 'Keep Taking It' The interview that apparently destroyed Don Lemon's relationship with Elon Musk, because it was not fawning enough for Musk's liking, or something, is now online, and in it, Musk discusses his use of prescription ketamine.
SF News Latest Busload of Migrants Shipped Out of Texas Lands in San Jose, Migrants Graciously Accepted A dozen undocumented immigrants arrived in San Jose on a bus from Texas this past weekend, and San Jose is making no apologies for rolling out the welcome mat with food, clothing, and medical care.
SF News Sixteen Immigrants From South America Flown From Texas to Sacramento Carrying Nothing But Backpacks, and Newsom Is Pissed Someone — possibly a certain governor from Florida — arranged to have sixteen immigrants bussed from Texas to New Mexico and then flown by private jet to Sacramento, where they were dropped off outside a church Friday not knowing where they were.
SF News Concord Woman Suffering From Rare Disease Wins Bid to Stay in U.S Permanently, Thanks to New Law Guatemalan immigrant Isabel Bueso came to the U.S. for life-saving treatment for Maroteaux-Lamy Syndrome, and after dodging a Trump-era effort to deport her, she will now be allowed to permanently remain in the U.S.
SF Politics Protest In Support of Citizenship For Immigrants Shuts Down Golden Gate Bridge Golden Gate Bridge traffic was halted Thursday morning as a group of about 25 vehicles stopped in the middle of the bridge, blocking traffic as demonstrators held signs and gave speeches from the bed of a pickup truck.
SF Politics VP Kamala Harris Being Put In Charge Of Thorny Migrant Situation President Biden announced Wednesday that Vice President Kamala Harris would be leading the administration's efforts to deal with the migration situation at the Mexican border — something which could end up being a politically awkward challenge for Harris.
SF News Mountain View’s Moffett Field Nixed as Possible Shelter Site for Migrant Children A vacant NASA facility in Santa Clara County was on the list as a possible migrant children's shelter, but the feds removed it with little explanation.
SF Politics New Senator Alex Padilla Introduces His First Bill, Citizenship for Essential Workers The handpicked junior senator from California is likely to make immigration reform his signature cause, and comes out of the gate with a bill that would grant citizenship to immigrants working essential jobs.
SF News Bay Area Doing Great On Census Responses, But Trump Still Trying to Game Who Gets Counted Three weeks out from “door knockers” being dispatched, the Bay Area is outpacing the country in responding to the delayed COVID-19 Census. Yet Trump still hopes to whittle our numbers.
SF News Cambodian-American Mistakenly Deported After Marijuana Conviction Returns to California Via SFO A Cambodian-born man who had come to the U.S. with his parents at the age of 1, and who had been a U.S. citizen since he was 12 years old but was nonetheless targeted for deportation, returned home to California on Wednesday via San Francisco.
SF News Undocumented, Critically Ill Bay Area Woman Allowed to Remain In US A Concord woman with a rare genetic disorder who faced deportation following a Trump edict in August has been granted "deferred action" by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and can remain in the Bay Area to receive medical treatment for another two years.
SF Politics SF and Santa Clara Counties Sue Over Trump's New Wealth Rule For Immigrants As part of a swift backlash against the Trump Administration's Monday announcement about restricting citizenship only to those immigrants who do not require public assistance, the counties of San Francisco and Santa Clara filed suit in federal court on Tuesday.
SF News Protesters Continue Flocking to SF's ICE Headquarters as Part of the 'Month of Momentum' 30 days of non-stop protesting, called the "Month of Momentum," officially began August 1st at 630 Sansome Street, ICE's SF HQ.
SF Politics SF Supervisor Hillary Ronen Confronts Ted Cruz About Border Detention Centers Texas Senator Ted Cruz got an earful from Supervisor Hillary Ronen at LAX on Sunday when she decided to confront him about the horrific conditions for detainees at the southern border.
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 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 [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.
