Immigration and New Americans

5+ day, 19+ hour ago   (167+ words) Opposition to AB 2001 came from the ACLU California Action, DecrimSexWorkCA, and the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, according to KALW's reporting. The critique centers on how broader access to arrest and charge records — including cases that never led to…...

1+ week, 16+ hour ago   (101+ words) San Francisco investigators say the woman charged in a deadly shooting is linked to a notorious retail theft ring. Shakia Vanderbilt, 32, is accused of killing 47-year-old Ulysses Davis on Saturday, according to police. Davis was a security guard at the…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (401+ words) San Francisco Assemblymember Catherine Stefani (left) says district office staffer Ho Yin Mo (right) has been released from ICE detention after spending more than two weeks in a Nevada detention center. Ho Yin Mo, the San Francisco assembly staffer whose…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (380+ words) Sen. Alex Padilla of California made an impromptu visit to San Francisco International Airport's immigration holding facility Thursday night in response to constituents' concerns that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been using the facility more frequently in recent months at…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (301+ words) U.S. Senator Alex Padilla showed up unannounced at San Francisco International Airport's ICE holding facility on Thursday, knocking on several doors before Customs and Border Protection officers let him inside — making him the second known federal lawmaker to enter the site…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (406+ words) Officer Ball, of the San Francisco Police Department, stands behind a barricade during a rally against ICE in front of SFPD Headquarters on March 25. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed 21 bills into law on Tuesday that are a direct response to the…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (496+ words) After 23 years, federal court oversight of the Oakland Police Department has come to an end. Civil rights attorney John Burris, one of the plaintiffs who filed the landmark lawsuit in 2000, said that "although the department did not fully comply with…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (506+ words) California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law Tuesday banning local, state and federal law enforcement officers from using gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks to people. The ban on shock gloves will take effect next year and remain in…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (190+ words) Pro-immigration groups gathered outside Home Depot in Concord on Thursday to protest what they say was the detention of four day laborers. They believe federal agents were involved, but the two most likely agencies said they weren’t. The Concord Immigrants…...

3+ week, 20+ hour ago   (53+ words) Yahoo There are growing calls for federal immigration agents to release a Ho-Yin Mo, a staffer for San Francisco Assemblymember Catherine Stefani, who was detained by ICE officers at an airport in Las Vegas. Kara St. Cyr reports....