Department of Homeland Security
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Alameda County tells ICE to stop using Santa Rita Jail as a staging area, citing two incidents in the jail lobby
A Nov. 9 letter from the county’s lawyer invokes its 2026 ICE-free zone ordinance; federal officials have said local refusals to honor detainers are what push immigration arrests into jail lobbies and parking lots.
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ICE agents bring a person in custody to a Boyle Heights hospital for care, and a protest follows outside
ICE says it does not target hospitals and will not discuss the operation; the hospital says it treated the patient and diverted ambulances for about two hours after agents lined its ambulance entrance, and rapid-response groups…
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Judge’s order limits federal demands on election workers through Nov. 16, and the Justice Department appeals
A San Francisco federal judge temporarily barred the Justice Department and Homeland Security from threatening election workers with prosecution for counting ballots of voters the government flags as likely noncitizens, and the department, which says it…
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Trump administration asks Supreme Court to let border barrier work resume in Texas’s Big Bend region
The government says a judge’s injunction has halted about 340 miles of planned barriers and roads, and its lawyers lean on a 2019 Ninth Circuit ruling from a San Diego border case.
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Justice Department asks California counties to set aside ballots from 20,000 registrants it flags as likely noncitizens
Federal officials say holding those ballots until citizenship is verified would protect citizens’ votes without canceling any registration. State and county officials dispute the list, and a federal appeals court takes up the case on Sunday.
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Inquirer Investigation: In Bay Area immigration arrests, court records and DHS offer competing accounts of force
The Department of Homeland Security says its officers use the minimum force necessary and face a surge in assaults; court filings and immigration lawyers describe broken car windows and hospital stays, and a federal judge has…
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Deportations near one million under Trump as arrests shift into communities, including the Bay Area
A Migration Policy Institute analysis of federal data finds that most removals still begin at the border, but arrests inside the country are driving a growing share, a trend Bay Area immigration lawyers say they are…
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Oakland judge’s order halting DHS voter interviews takes effect today unless an appeals court steps in
The ruling shields citizens in California and eight other states from election-related field interviews through Election Day, but it rests on a narrower basis than San Francisco and Santa Clara County sought.
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Schiff tours SFO holding room and says detained travelers still cannot call lawyers or family
After a Tuesday oversight visit, Senator Adam Schiff said some people held by Customs and Border Protection at San Francisco International Airport are kept past the agency’s 72-hour guideline, and that detainees, including green-card holders, cannot…
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Marin adopts limits on immigration agents’ use of county property, but stops short of an ordinance
After two hours of public comment, Marin County supervisors unanimously approved an administrative policy that bars federal immigration operations from county property, a step activists said falls short of the binding law other Bay Area counties…