#immigration-enforcement

#immigration-enforcement

Outside the court at 630 Sansome St., around 50 peaceful protesters held signs reading " Huelga general, general strike" as they walked around the building. They chanted "Say it loud, say it clear, immigrants are welcome here!" as a long line of asylum-seekers, waiting outside for their hearings, recorded videos and cheered. The picket line, organized by the San Francisco General Strike Committee and Anti-ICE Action Coalition, was joined by members of four Aztec dance groups, who led the crowd in a cleansing ritual. They used copal, an incense used to purify a space and honor Aztec gods, to bless both immigrants standing in line and various entrances to the court building. Protesters beat drums and blared trumpets.

I am trying to cope because that's what I am supposed to do, but what hurts me the most is to hear my kids ask where daddy is. My eight-year-old daughter with autism waited for him until the last minute. They would talk over the phone while he was detained, but one day before the funeral, I had to tell her that daddy was in heaven and that he would be watching her and that she wouldn't see him.

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The district does not allow immigration enforcement officers on any campus without a judicial warrant that is first reviewed by BUSD's legal team. The district urged all families, especially those who could be directly impacted, to be prepared by reviewing local immigrant resources, updating their child's emergency contact card, and creating a preparedness plan. They cautioned families not to disclose their immigration status in any written communication, such as emails, to BUSD staff.

This support of DHS agencies continues the Coast Guard's operations to control, secure, and defend US borders and maritime approaches, the spokesperson said in a statement to multiple local media outlets. Through a whole-of-government approach, we are leveraging our unique authorities and capabilities to detect, deter, and interdict illegal aliens, narco-terrorists, and individuals intent on terrorism or other hostile activity before they reach our border.

"If their goal is to stop counterfeiting, what they need to do is to stop the importation, which is somewhere else - it's not on Canal Street," Van Malden said.

One video shows a large amounts of smoke coming from a sedan that is boxed between two law enforcement vehicles. For 25 seconds, smoke continues to rise from the car, as the sound of an engine revs up and down repeatedly. Then an agent shouts "Shoot him with a pepper ball!" As the sound from the vehicle goes quiet, 11 shots ring out in rapid succession. The video does not show who fired the shots.

The Trump administration is sending a major federal immigration operation to the Bay Area, with agents, including Customs and Border Protection, beginning to arrive Thursday, the San Francisco Chronicle is reporting. Leer en espanol It's the latest escalation in the administration's deportation agenda, which has already brought a doubling of immigration arrests in ICE's San Francisco Area of Responsibility, which includes Alameda County.

This is how authoritarian regimes do it. They create these kind of fake ideas that there's an enemy out there and it could be sitting next to you at one of these tables. So just somebody sitting at your table that you don't like might be one of those enemies, Pritzker said. So let's round them up, let's make sure they are the subjects of the laws that we're passing, because we don't like who they are. That is what authoritarian regimes do.

American citizens are being dragged off the streets by masked men and thrown into detention cells without access to a lawyer or even a phone call, Garcia said. No one, regardless of their background or appearance, should be living in fear of being thrown behind bars by their own government because of their race or what they look like. Their actions are unconstitutional, unacceptable, and completely un-American, and we will not stop fighting until this Administration is held accountable, he added.