Since May, #ICE has been arresting people at #immigration courts in No. California and detaining people for days in SF holding rooms only meant for a few hours - no beds, hygiene or medical care - lawyers say. Now advocates are suing over both. @kqednews.kqed.org www.kqed.org/news/12056762/

For my journalist colleague, and really anyone, here’s some food for thought on what tech companies like Google may do with your personal information and data… theintercept.com/2025/09/16/g...

Last April, I broke the news that #ICE was looking to put an #immigration #detention facility at #TravisAFB in the Bay Area. Opposition by members of Congress and the local community followed. And the Trump administration backed off. My latest... www.kqed.org/news/12055651/ @kqednews.kqed.org

The Trump administration is rapidly expanding immigration detention. The latest move for ICE in CA? A 2,500-bed private prison in the desert w questionable plumbing. And so far, it's operating without a business license. www.kqed.org/news/12054544/ @kqednews.kqed.org #immigration #ICE #detention

Delighted that my story - on a #Nicaraguan journalist who thought she'd found safety here from an authoritarian regime - aired nationally today on @theworld.org. The piece originally ran on @kqednews.kqed.org. theworld.org/segments/202...

We're well over the 50 incidents documented in our investigation now. Here's one from this week from @opb.org, reporting that a young girl was also in the the van of Mam-speaking farmworkers from Guatemala when immigration agents broke the driver window. www.opb.org/article/2025...

Just back from Canada and I can testify, this anger is very real. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/o...

“The travel ban will break our country’s promise for a safe future in the US for all Afghans who worked alongside and kept safe US military personnel in Afghanistan.” - Robin Mencher, @jfcseastbay.bsky.social My latest... kqed.org/news/12042983 @kqednews.kqed.org #TravelBan2025 #immigration

Important reporting by my CA Newsroom colleagues Mark Betancourt, with Mike Kessler. Trump administration "quietly and deliberately erased" legal protections for people seeking refuge from #torture. "What remains of the process now takes place under a veil of secrecy." www.kqed.org/news/12041326/

Courthouses - along with churches, schools, hospitals- used to be places where ICE limited its operations… www.kqed.org/news/12041473

“To send them back, to deport them, would really be a death sentence.” - Harris Mojadedi Strong reporting from my @kqednews.kqed.org colleague @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social www.kqed.org/news/12040425

“You cannot deport someone under the laws for their beliefs." - veteran SF #immigration attorney Marc Van Der Hout I sat down with Van Der Hout to talk about what it's like representing Mahmoud Khalil -- and what his case means for the rest of us. @kqednews.kqed.org www.kqed.org/news/12040160/

Thousands of #Afghans the US took in after their country fell to the Taliban have been waiting months or years for asylum. Temporary Protected Status or #TPS gave them refuge here while they wait. But that ends July 12, and #deportation looms. @kqednews.kqed.org omny.fm/shows/kqed-s...

San Francisco Planning Director Rich Hillis, who led the city department through the pandemic and launched an ambitious rezoning of west and north side neighborhoods that have seen little housing built in recent decades, will step down after more than five years in the position.

Important reporting by the Pulitzer-winning (!) @propublica.org team.

Recently I uncovered planning afoot inside the Trump administration for an immigration detention center at Travis Air Force Base in the San Francisco Bay Area. Now, members of Congress are pushing back. My latest: www.kqed.org/news/12039137/ @kqednews.kqed.org #immigration #ICEdetention

Read @tychehendricks.bsky.social's story:

Folks, this is serious! protectmypublicmedia.org?utm_medium=E...

California universities and students have been blindsided by a “mass and abrupt cancellation" of student visas. My latest: #immigration @kqednews.kqed.org www.kqed.org/news/1203474...

60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5

Excited for a great convo tonite at 9p @ the SFPL w journalist Ray Suarez and refugee advocate Jane Pak. Shifting Borders: America's Future & the Immigrant Experience It's FREE! Join us! nightofideas.org/san-francisco/ @villa-albertine.bsky.social @sfpubliclibrary.bsky.social #KQED #NightofIdeas

More than a thousand people gathered at Powder House Square near the Tufts University campus Wednesday evening to protest the arrest and possible deportation of student Rumeysa Ozturk.

I'm joining @jcarstensen.bsky.social on stage at @cwclub.bsky.social in SF tomorrow 3/27 to talk about her gripping new book, A Greek Tragedy. Reads like a novel, but an all-too-real account of a 2015 Aegean Sea shipwreck that killed dozens of #refugees. www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2025-...

Memories of airport chaos and years-long family separations are still vivid from the first Trump travel ban. And across California, Iranians, Afghans and others are worried about what might happen in coming days. 📻 My latest: www.kqed.org/news/12032046/

On @kqednews.kqed.org Political Breakdown, @raders.bsky.social of @projectdemocracy.bsky.social joins Marisa Lagos and @scottshafer.bsky.social to unpack the way Project 2025 is not just a policy blueprint but a roadmap to #authoritarianism. 📻 Compelling radio! www.kqed.org/news/1203018...

Anxiety is "off the charts" in the Northern California Ukrainian community over concern Trump could end humanitarian parole. @kqednews.kqed.org #immigration www.kqed.org/news/12030273/