Immigration
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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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The Supreme Court weighs whether the Labor Department can fine farm employers through its own judges, a question for California’s H-2A growers
The administration told the justices that enforcing seasonal farmworker visa terms in agency proceedings is a long-recognized power over immigration; the grower and several justices questioned whether penalties can be imposed without a federal court.
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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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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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Supreme Court leaves in place Texas-Justice Department judgment ending administrative closure in immigration courts
The justices declined to pause a consent judgment that bars immigration judges from indefinitely shelving deportation cases, turning back a bid by an Oakland legal-aid group and three cities.
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Appeals court dismisses Justice Department’s bid to set aside 20,000 California ballots, returning the fight to a trial judge today
A Ninth Circuit panel ruled 2-1 that the government moved before the district court could act, and Judge David O. Carter is scheduled to hear the Justice Department’s request on Tuesday.
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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…