Immigration and Customs Enforcement
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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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Inside the contract chain that put ICE vehicles in a city-owned garage
Federal parking at San Francisco’s Golden Gateway Garage came through a private operator and the General Services Administration, and the city’s contract, its new ICE-free law and federal supremacy doctrine each bear on what officials can…
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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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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…
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Marin supervisors to weigh limits on immigration agents’ use of county property
A policy before the board on Tuesday would bar federal agents from staging on county land, but a coalition of residents says only a binding ordinance will do.
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California files its 100th lawsuit against the Trump administration, targeting ICE arrests at courthouses
Attorney General Rob Bonta says immigration arrests in and around state courthouses have frightened victims and witnesses away from testifying; the White House called the suit frivolous.