SF News Immigrants Urged to Avoid Air Travel Amid Rise In ICE Arrests at Bay Area Airports At least a dozen immigrants have been detained by federal agents at Bay Area airports over the past month — many over expired visas rather than active removal orders, leading advocates to suspect ICE is accessing flight information.
SF News New Video Emerges of ICE Arresting Oakland Woman at Denver Airport New video footage shows ICE agents arresting Chantal Morales Rojas, 27, of Ecuador, at Denver International Airport earlier this week. Currently employed as an au pair in Oakland, Rojas was in Denver to visit with her former host family.
SF News Woman From Ukraine Forcibly Detained at SFO In Viral Video; Feds Say She Overstayed Her Visa A 38-year-old photographer and cafe worker who's been living in San Francisco for over a decade was detained by ICE agents at SFO as she was returning from a trip to Portland Wednesday, in a video that has since gone viral.
SF News United Airlines Employee at SFO Tells Customer 'Maybe We Should Call ICE On You' A confrontation over a ticket error at SFO last week led to a lengthy back-and-forth between ticket counter agents and a Bay Area father that culminated in a United Airlines employee telling the man "Maybe we should call on ICE on you."
SF Politics That California Ban on Masked ICE Agents Just Got Struck Down A three-judge panel at the Ninth Circuit just made permanent an injunction that blocks the enforcement of California's law banning masks on federal agents — basically because a state can't tell a federal agency what to do.
SF News Day Around the Bay: NorCal Man Shot By ICE to Remain In Custody BART is running a limited number of trains through the Transbay Tube next Sunday; the CA man shot by ICE in the Central Valley has been ordered to remain in custody; and Trump's labor secretary is stepping down amid scandal.
SF News Northern California Man Shot By ICE Was Not Gang Member, Lawyer Says, Was Acquitted of Murder Charge In El Salvador A Salvadoran man who his lawyer says is a family man and day laborer who's engaged to a US citizen was shot by ICE agents in Patterson, California Tuesday, south of Tracy. His lawyer says it was a case of poor investigative work by ICE.
SF News TSA Tipped Off ICE About Woman Forcibly Detained at SFO We now have a fuller picture of what went down at Gate E2 at SFO's Terminal 3 on Sunday night, how ICE agents ended up there, and what happened with the woman afterwards.
SF News SFPD May Have Violated Sanctuary Laws By Helping ICE at SFO, Bystander Files Lawsuit A witness at SFO Sunday filed a complaint that SFPD officers violated sanctuary laws by shielding ICE agents in plainclothes from bystanders who were asking them to identify themselves, as the ICE agents attempted to restrain a woman being deported with her young daughter.
SF News ICE Not Deployed to Assist TSA at SFO, But They Were There Arresting Someone Sunday Night ICE agents are not be getting deployed at SFO as they are at other airports to assist TSA agents amid the partial government shutdown, but they were there on Sunday anyway, conducting an arrest.
SF News Sunday Links: 400 TSA Agents Have Quit, Leading to Long Airport Lines and Trump May Send ICE A judge dismissed a sexual abuse lawsuit against Sam Altman by his sister but said she could refile under a different statute; kids entertainer Ms. Rachel aims to free children from ICE detention centers; and Trump may send ICE to airports, as 400 TSA agents have quit.
SF News Trump Administration Insists It Won’t Turn Shuttered FCI Dublin Into an ICE Detention Facility, But Says So in Very Fishy Terms The notorious and scandal-tainted former federal women’s prison known as FCI Dublin was rumored to be in the Trump administration’s crosshairs to make it an ICE holding pen, but the administration claims it has no such plans.
SF News Sunday Links: SF Entrepreneur Demands Retraction Over Sex Crime Allegations The Bay Area is getting hit with several days of solid rain; Assemblymember Diane Papan is working to close a loophole that allows e-bikes to operate at excessive speeds; and a social-climbing local entrepreneur has been accused of sex crimes.
SF News Protesters Confront Sonoma County Sheriff During Meet-and-Greet for Cooperating With ICE Sonoma County Sheriff Eddie Engram held a meet-and-greet in Bodega Bay Wednesday, which was met with a group of local protesters and community members denouncing the sheriff for handing over 70 people to ICE in 2025, urging him to support a proposed non-compliance ordinance.
Arts & Entertainment Shop in SF’s Inner Richmond Will Screenprint ‘F*ck ICE’ For Free on Items the Public Brings In During the general strike on January 30, the folks at Fleetwood Fine Goods in the Inner Richmond began offering free “F*ck ICE” screenprints, which was met with huge success, and they’re continuing to offer the service to anyone who brings in or purchases a garment of their choice.
SF News Judge Shoots Down Wiener’s ICE Mask Ban, and Gavin Newsom and Wiener Are Blaming Each Other For it A federal judge has shot down state Senator Scott Wiener’s ban on ICE agents wearing masks, because of wonky new amendments that Wiener and Governor Newsom added to it, constituting a classic Democratic political screw-up.
SF News Thousands of Super Bowl Attendees Receive ‘ICE Out’ Towels for Bad Bunny Halftime Show Activists from a group called Contra-ICE stealthily handed out over 15,000 towels at Levi’s Stadium Sunday, which featured the message “ICE Out” and a bunny illustration by acclaimed artist Lalo Alcaraz to coincide with Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime performance.
SF News The Pro-ICE Billboard at Fisherman’s Wharf Has Been Removed, Supervisor Sauter Says The ICE fanboy billboard in Fisherman's Wharf had a pretty short run, because the district’s Supervisor Danny Sauter said on social media Wednesday that the Super Bowl-themed billboard near Per 39 has been removed.
SF Politics Offensive Billboards Appear In SF Promoting ICE as 'Defensive Player of the Year' Some hastily put together, pro-ICE electronic billboard ads, paid for by a shady outfit with no known donors, have appeared in San Francisco ahead of the Super Bowl, and maybe in other cities as well.
SF News Sunday Links: Hundreds Line Up in Emeryville for Opening of Japanese Market Tokyo Central Five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father Adrian Conejo Arias have been released from ICE custody; one person involved in a high-speed CHP chase in San Leandro was killed and another seriously injured; and the grand opening of Tokyo Central in Emeryville was met with huge crowds.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF’s Archbishop Riordan High School Goes Online Amid Tuberculosis Cases Students and workers across the Bay Area took part in a nationwide walkout Friday; Yosemite eliminated the reservation system for Firefall and will instead be limiting car and foot traffic; and classes will be held remotely at SF’s Archbishop Riordan High School to cut the spread of TB.
SF News Emeryville Protesters Storm Home Depot and Target to Pressure Them Against Cooperating With ICE Since Home Depot parking lots have become magnets for ICE arrests and deportations, a couple hundred protesters hit the Emeryville Home Depot Tuesday night to pressure the retailer to push back more against ICE.
SF News Yes, ICE Says Their Agents Will Be All Over the Place at the Super Bowl In Santa Clara ICE may be bogged down in controversy for shooting and killing people in Minnesota, but they insist they’re not backing down on previously announced plans to have next weekend’s Santa Clara Super Bowl crawling with ICE agents.
SF Politics Three Months Ago, San Francisco Was Hours Away From Sharing the Fate of Minneapolis Were it not for a last-minute reversal by President Trump, brokered in secret by a couple of billionaires and SF's mayor, San Francisco and Oakland could have easily descended into the same violent chaos, provoked by an ICE invasion, that we're seeing in Minneapolis.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Over 200 California State Parks Will Be Free on Martin Luther King Jr. Day Boudin Bakery’s master chef is preparing an 8-foot-long sourdough alligator for Claude the albino alligator’s memorial Sunday; Matthew McConaughey trademarked his likeness from being used by AI without permission; and Newsom announced that 200 state parks will be free Monday.
