More Than A Dozen Protesters Blocking Streets In Immigration Rally

More Than A Dozen Protesters Blocking Streets In Immigration Rally

More than a dozen immigrant rights advocates have chained themselves together in San Francisco’s Financial District this morning to protest what they say are cruel…

New Sheriff Vicki Hennessy Plans Policy for Deputies to Communicate With ICE

New Sheriff Vicki Hennessy Plans Policy for Deputies to Communicate With ICE

Vicki Hennessy today said that after winning the race for San Francisco Sheriff one of her first orders of business will be to instruct sheriff’s…

Immigrant Survivors of Domestic Violence Protest Police Cooperation with ICE

Immigrant Survivors of Domestic Violence Protest Police Cooperation with ICE

Immigrant survivors of domestic violence and their supporters gathered in San Francisco today to urge the city to opt out of a federal program that…

Advocates Rally For Berkeley Recycling Director Facing Deportation

Advocates Rally For Berkeley Recycling Director Facing Deportation

Daniel Maher, a 41-year-old man with a felony conviction from 20 years ago, has run the recycling program at Berkeley’s Ecology Center for the last…

Sanctuary City Position Comes Under Fire, Petition Created to Amend Law

Sanctuary City Position Comes Under Fire, Petition Created to Amend Law

The shooting death of a 32-year-old woman at a San Francisco pier last week renewed a debate over the city’s sanctuary city policy after an…

Man Arrested in Shooting Death of Woman at Pier 14 Had History of Deportation

Man Arrested in Shooting Death of Woman at Pier 14 Had History of Deportation

A man accused of shooting and killing a 32-year-old woman near the San Francisco Ferry Building on Wednesday had been deported five times for various…

SF-Based ICE Investigators Seize $500K in Counterfeit Merchandise During NBA Playoffs

SF-Based ICE Investigators Seize $500K in Counterfeit Merchandise During NBA Playoffs

During the Golden State Warriors’ run to the NBA title, San Francisco-based special agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations seized nearly…

ICE Agents Seize 2,700 Pieces of Counterfeit MLB Merchandise

ICE Agents Seize 2,700 Pieces of Counterfeit MLB Merchandise

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents seized more than 2,700 items of counterfeit Major League Baseball merchandise worth $80,000 from Bay Area vendors, agency representatives…

Alleged Sunset And Richmond District Brothels Raided, Sisters Arrested On Sex Trafficking Charges

Alleged Sunset And Richmond District Brothels Raided, Sisters Arrested On Sex Trafficking Charges

Two women allegedly running a sex trafficking ring in San Francisco were arrested today, according to the state Attorney General’s Office. The two San Francisco…

SF Sheriff’s Department Won’t Honor ICE Detention Requests For Undocumented Immigrants

SF Sheriff’s Department Won’t Honor ICE Detention Requests For Undocumented Immigrants

San Francisco has stopped honoring detention requests for suspected undocumented immigrants in jail who would otherwise be eligible for release, joining most other Bay Area…

Immigrant Rights Advocates Celebrate New Law Limiting Deportations

Immigrant Rights Advocates Celebrate New Law Limiting Deportations

Immigrant rights advocates are lauding a new California law taking effect today that will limit the criteria by which a local law enforcement agency can…

Mayor Signs Off On Rule Prohibiting SF Cops From Complying With Most Federal Immigration Hold Requests

Mayor Signs Off On Rule Prohibiting SF Cops From Complying With Most Federal Immigration Hold Requests

Legislation prohibiting San Francisco law enforcement from complying with most federal immigration detainer requests was signed into law today by Mayor Ed Lee. The mayor…

Passage Of Ammiano’s Trust Act Heralded As Step Toward Limiting ICE Deportations

Passage Of Ammiano’s Trust Act Heralded As Step Toward Limiting ICE Deportations

Supporters of the Trust Act Monday lauded the governor’s decision to sign the law that aims to limit the criteria for deporting undocumented residents after…

Supes Delay Vote On Proposal To Deny Federal Immigration Hold Requests As Mayoral Veto Looms

Supes Delay Vote On Proposal To Deny Federal Immigration Hold Requests As Mayoral Veto Looms

A proposal to bar San Francisco law enforcement officials from complying with federal immigration detainer requests was put on hold today as city supervisors debated…

“Any attempt to board my vessel is an act of war”: Sailboat Skipper Who Led Coast Guard On Chase To Face Charges

“Any attempt to board my vessel is an act of war”: Sailboat Skipper Who Led Coast Guard On Chase To Face Charges

A sailboat skipper who was arrested by the Coast Guard outside the Golden Gate on Sunday was given an Aug. 7 date in federal court…

ICE Cancels Deportation Order For Mother Of Infant Son, Wife Of Soldier

ICE Cancels Deportation Order For Mother Of Infant Son, Wife Of Soldier

A Stockton woman who was about to be deported to the Philippines despite being married to a U.S. Army soldier and the mother of a…

ICE To Release Mother From Custody In Advance Of Rally

In advance of a vigil planned in San Francisco this evening for a Brazilian mother who is in federal custody on an immigration hold, authorities…