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Covid-19 update: Outbreak shakes SF homeless shelter, Oakland slows streets, Newsom hopeful but cautious on state trajectory
As the holidays approach for several religious communities, local and state leaders are urging people to “hold the line,” as Gov. Gavin Newsom phrased it Friday. California as a...Read More
Covid-19 update: SF houses domestic violence victims, judge orders four ICE detainees released, seventh patient dies from Hayward facility
Since Wednesday evening, an additional 1,774 people have died in the U.S. of complications related to Covid-19. In California, that number rose by nearly 50 in the same time...Read More
Activists rally against immigrant’s courthouse ICE arrest
Immigration activists rallied in San Francisco on Monday at the same location where U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested a man as he was entering a court hearing...Read More
Protesters rally for immigrant rights after courthouse ICE arrests
Members of immigration rights organizations rallied outside Sonoma County Superior Court in Santa Rosa Tuesday morning to protest the arrest of two immigrants at the courthouse last week by...Read More
County officials say ‘lawless’ courthouse ICE arrests ‘undermine’ justice system
Sonoma County’s district attorney, public defender and county counsel criticized U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement agents for arresting at least three immigrants in and near the county courthouse in...Read More
Public defender seeks restraining order against ICE for transgender detainee
The San Francisco Public Defender’s Office has filed a motion seeking a temporary restraining order against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Yuba County Sheriff’s Office, asking for...Read More
Mexican Independence Day rally heightens demand to ‘close the camps’
On Mexico’s Independence Day Monday, hundreds of protesters marched from the 24th Street BART station to San Francisco City Hall to send a message to the White House. Those...Read More
Man Daly City police turned over to ICE speaks out at interfaith protest
A few hundred demonstrators from multiple religious faiths protested outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building Friday. The action marked the ninth straight day of action outside the...Read More
‘Playdate Protest’ brings families out to stand against immigrant child detention
Around 50-60 people amassed Wednesday in front of the San Francisco offices of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in protest of what they see as the agency’s inhumane treatment...Read More
ICE releases man turned over by Daly City police
A man who advocates say was wrongfully turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement by Daly City police was released from ICE custody Monday, according to the Asian...Read More
Sheriff, supervisor shouted down after ICE cooperation revealed
Contra Costa County Sheriff David Livingston clashed with immigrant rights activists during an occasionally combative update to the Board of Supervisors on the extent of his department’s collaboration with...Read More
Court’s legal counsel decision subdues ICE raids
After the American Civil Liberties Union took the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to federal court in Northern California, the impact of the planned raids was subdued Sunday, an...Read More
SF protest planned to denounce ICE raids
Following reports that U.S. President Donald Trump will order Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids Sunday to deport undocumented immigrants in several U.S. cities, protesters will rally Thursday in San...Read More
Local, state officials express outrage, call Trump’s deportation threat ‘cruel’
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf on Friday harshly criticized President Trump’s threat to deport millions of undocumented immigrants as early as next week. Speaking at a news conference in her...Read More
Immigration judge issues $25k bond for man held by ICE for nearly two years
An immigration judge granted a Guatemalan immigrant a $25,000 bond Friday during a court hearing ordered by a federal magistrate last month.Read More
Sheriff to close Richmond ICE facility
Contra Costa County Sheriff David Livingston announced plans Tuesday to end a contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the U.S. Marshals Service that allowed ICE to house...Read More
Concord takes stand against Trump detention camp
Activists, advocacy groups and families came together in Concord to speak out against President Trump's immigration policies.Read More
Two separated immigrant children held in Pleasant Hill
There are roughly two dozen children being held at a shelter for immigrant youth in Pleasant Hill, and two of them are adolescent girls who were separated from their...Read More
Rally outside ICE office highlights uncertainty
Dozens of immigration activists rallied Tuesday in support of Fernando Carrillo, released from custody last month after being jailed for more than six months, as he attended a check-in...Read More