"Mission Local has been covering immigration enforcement in San Francisco for months, attending asylum hearings, reporting on protests, and diving deep into the data on how many people have been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. A lot has happened in that time. Readers could be forgiven for tuning out the news - the MAGA approach to PR, as articulated by Steve Bannon, is to focus on "muzzle velocity" and flood the zone with news."
"Jan. 20, 2025The same day President Donald Trump took office, he issued dozens of orders, including one to expand a process known as "expedited removal," which U.S. immigration officials had used along the border to quickly return immigrants to their home countries. Instead of limiting it to the border area, it could now be used across the country to remove any undocumented immigrant "physically present in the country for less than two years." "
"Friends talk about a Colombian immigrant in detention. "He was following the rules that were in place at that moment," said one friend. "He didn't break the law. He showed up." Jafet Santiago Diaz had studied economics and graphic design at a university in Colombia, the friend said, but had to flee before he could get his degree. July 8: More protests prompt backlash ICE agents drive a van through protestors gathered outside of immigration court."
Observers attended asylum hearings and protests while tracking arrests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in San Francisco. On Jan. 20, 2025, an order expanded expedited removal beyond the border to immigrants present less than two years. Demonstrations intensified, and videos of ICE driving a van through protesters circulated widely. Some asylum seekers requested voluntary removal out of fear of detention, and judges granted voluntary departures. Friends reported detained immigrants who had followed rules and fled danger, highlighting the human impact of enforcement and the disruption to migrant lives and education.
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