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Officials have not specified what agency the officers were from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Video footage captured by \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weYGEwkHDoA\">KTVU\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/SaraDonchey/status/1981607870325014602\">KPIX\u003c/a> shows a U-Haul truck line up facing away from the bridge before slowly reversing onto it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061449\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061449\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251024-CoastGuard-03-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251024-CoastGuard-03-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251024-CoastGuard-03-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251024-CoastGuard-03-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">FBI and law enforcement agents stand at the intersection of Dennison Street and Embarcadero in front of Coast Guard Island in Oakland on Oct. 24, 2025, following a shooting late last night in which security personnel opened fire on a U-Haul near the base. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Officers can be heard yelling at the driver before shooting repeatedly at the truck for multiple seconds. 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The sounds of the duduk transport you somewhere beyond yourself. “When it hits you, it hits you,” he told KQED. “The duduk takes you to where it wants to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061347\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251022-DUDUKWHISPERER00463_TV-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061347\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251022-DUDUKWHISPERER00463_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251022-DUDUKWHISPERER00463_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251022-DUDUKWHISPERER00463_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251022-DUDUKWHISPERER00463_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Khatchadourian displays two of his duduks, Armenian folk instruments, in his backyard in Santa Rosa on Oct. 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>You’ll have to catch him while you can. Save \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfbayecalendar.com/?p=2613\">one performance \u003c/a>this weekend, Khatchadourian, 39, is taking a break from performing publicly for the time being to focus on crafting his sixth studio album, which he’s calling \u003cem>Breath\u003c/em> — a fitting title for a performer whose ability to sing and produce tones with the physically-demanding double reed depends on his lung strength.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The title is also a nod to the technique of breathing to move forward through pain. In his newly-built home studio in Santa Rosa, Khatchadourian is working out how an artist can create in the face of personal and collective hardship — which these days, he said, feels like is all around him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The album concept took shape in 2023, following the shock and anguish Khatchadourian and Armenians around the world experienced witnessing Azerbaijan’s forced displacement of more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11954142/more-california-armenians-are-moving-back-to-their-parents-native-land\">100,000 Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh\u003c/a>, an enclave within the country that Armenians call “Artsakh.” That dispersal followed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11841878/this-one-feels-different-bay-area-armenians-call-for-solidarity-as-homeland-faces-attacks\">pattern of war, starvation and violence \u003c/a>that led Luis Moreno Ocampo, an Argentinian lawyer and former prosecutor for the International Criminal Court, to \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/09/22/nagorno-karabakh-genocide-armenia/\">call\u003c/a> the crisis “the Armenian genocide of 2023.”[aside postID=news_12058796 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250913-NIMISHAAUNTY00688_TV-KQED.jpg']The events “left a wound in the collective Armenian psyche,” Khatchadourian said. The world’s silence made it all the more painful. That, in relation to the “ethnic cleansing and the ongoing genocide happening to Palestinians in Gaza,” left Khatchadourian temporarily frozen, he said, weighed down by the “heartbreak, the disappointment” of the politics of the moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the musician learned a long time ago how to channel and transmute his pain into music. “My early years on this planet,” he said, “have given me enough psychological material to process through my 30s.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khatchadourian was born in Beirut, a Middle Eastern city of myth. While older generations remember a cultural metropolis, known as the Paris of the Middle East, Khatchadourian’s earliest memories are of the Lebanese Civil War.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The brutal conflict, which racked the country from 1975–1991, separated his family. His dad fled to Los Angeles in search of work opportunities, while his mother took then-3-year-old Khatchadour and his sister to Aleppo to live with his paternal grandparents. As a child in Syria, Khatchadourian caught his first glimpse of the duduk in the hands of a young musician who was part of a traveling folk music troupe from Armenia. For the most part, his musical education came in the form of a children’s choir, singing Armenian, Arabic and some English-language music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061346\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251022-DUDUKWHISPERER00444_TV-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061346\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251022-DUDUKWHISPERER00444_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251022-DUDUKWHISPERER00444_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251022-DUDUKWHISPERER00444_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251022-DUDUKWHISPERER00444_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Khatchadour Khatchadourian plays the duduk in his backyard in Santa Rosa on Oct. 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Twelve years later, the family reunited in California. The transition to life in a new country was rough, Khatchadourian said, especially for a teenager who had lived through so much turmoil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During this chapter, he didn’t do “any music for about 10 years, just total silence,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoping to leave the nest and strike out on his own, Khatchadourian moved to the Bay Area to study political science at UC Berkeley. He almost became an academic, researching the Armenian community of Lebanon, which had formed after the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/armenian-genocide\">1915 Armenian genocide\u003c/a>, and had been fractured by the civil war. But studying his own experience only brought Khatchadourian more darkness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was at that point that he discovered the duduk.[aside postID=news_12058091 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250831-CREATIVEMUTUALAID00140_TV-KQED.jpg']“I was suffering … tremendously isolated, and trying to find kind of a meaning within myself, and the duduk spoke to that,” he reflected, before adding, “I wouldn’t say it’s cheaper than therapy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This forthcoming album has been the most challenging to produce to date, he said. He’s composed more than 250 hours of original or arranged pieces so far, some formed out of the folk music and other sonic relics from Artsakh and written in the region’s unique Armenian dialect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recording the foundations of the album left him feeling raw and emotional, he said. “I was processing the war, and at the same time processing the shifting nature of Armenian identity,” he said. “It shakes quite a bit inside of me every time I hear it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Khatchadourian’s guides in this wilderness is the 19th century Armenian composer and ethnomusicologist, Komitas Vardapet. Born Soghomon Soghomonian, in what is now western Turkey, Komitas went from village to village collecting Armenian and Kurdish folk songs and traditions and transcribing them into western musical notation. He also composed his own songs, many of which received \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/apr/21/komitas-vardapet-folk-music-armenia\">acclaim\u003c/a> beyond his lifetime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Komitas was said to be on the verge of deciphering \u003ca href=\"https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Asia/Armenia/_Texts/KURARM/45*.html\">\u003cem>khaz\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, an Armenian musical notation system, when on April 24, 1915, he was rounded up with nearly 300 other Armenian intellectuals to be slaughtered by the Ottoman government, although Turkey continues to deny that a genocide occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Komitas survived the genocide, thanks in part to intervention from the U.S. Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire \u003ca href=\"https://aurorahumanitarian.org/en/henry-morgenthau\">Henry Morgenthau\u003c/a>, he suffered a mental breakdown, and spent his final years in an asylum. The key to \u003cem>khaz\u003c/em>, as well as a vast archive of folk music, was lost. The handful of songs that survived, however, would go on to become the foundation of contemporary Armenian classical music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061343\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251022-DUDUKWHISPERER00169_TV-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061343\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251022-DUDUKWHISPERER00169_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251022-DUDUKWHISPERER00169_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251022-DUDUKWHISPERER00169_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251022-DUDUKWHISPERER00169_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Khatchadour Khatchadourian’s duduk collection rests on a desk in his home studio in Santa Rosa on Oct. 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last spring, Khatchadourian performed and sang the Komitas song, \u003cem>Make a Breeze,\u003c/em> at an art gallery in Berkeley. The singer begs the mountains, clouds and rivers to send a gust of air that will soothe the singer’s pain. As Khatchadourian played, a handful of audience members sighed audibly in peaceful relief. The performance seemed to capture the audience’s collective heartache, and transform it, even for a moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whether it’s a song from the 1700s or the 1800s, there is a continuity of wisdom,” Khatchadourian told the crowd. “Maybe that will be an invitation to healing, or letting it be, or letting it live within you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Want to hear the duduk yourself? \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfbayecalendar.com/?p=2613\">\u003cem>Khatchadour Khatchadourian \u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>will play at St. John Armenian Apostolic Church on Oct. 25, at 275 Olympic Way in San Francisco. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Thanks to Barbar Band for providing some of the music in the piece, performed and arranged by Khatchadour Khatchadourian and Karine Vann.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Enriqueta Soriano has sold bejeweled, colorful ball gowns for quinceañeras, weddings and other formal events for 30 years in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12052452/you-cant-trust-anyone-in-oakland-fear-of-ice-raids-grips-day-laborers\">Oakland’s Fruitvale district\u003c/a>, a majority Latino area where one in three residents is foreign-born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Mexican immigrant raised six children and saved for retirement with income from her once-prosperous store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But since reports spread in June of masked federal immigration agents \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043346/sf-rallies-for-david-huerta-california-union-leader-arrested-in-la-immigration-raid\">raiding Los Angeles workplaces\u003c/a> and Home Depot parking lots, few customers have entered Soriano’s shop. The nosedive in sales came as local merchants were already struggling with public safety concerns that hurt the area’s reputation and drove customers away in recent years, said the 66-year-old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now, to give us the final blow, came the ICE raids that were on TV so much. They really scared people,” Soriano, owner of El Palacio de Novias y Quinceañeras, said in Spanish. “Business is going down, down, down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across California, businesses owned and frequented by immigrants like Soriano’s are suffering from an economic chill driven not just by enforcement, but by fear. Families are staying home, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12055084/california-volunteers-stand-guard-at-day-laborer-corners-amid-ice-sweeps\">workers are keeping low profiles\u003c/a>, and small shops that once thrived are watching their customers disappear. The impact ripples through neighborhoods, local economies and city budgets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061128\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12061128 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251022-FRUITVALE-MERCHANTS-MD-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251022-FRUITVALE-MERCHANTS-MD-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251022-FRUITVALE-MERCHANTS-MD-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251022-FRUITVALE-MERCHANTS-MD-03-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Enriqueta Soriano and her son Enrique work inside her store, El Palacio de las Novias y Quinceañeras, in the Fruitvale neighborhood in Oakland on Oct. 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061224/oakland-braces-for-possible-federal-action-after-san-francisco-dodges-trumps-attention\">Bay Area braced\u003c/a> for President Donald Trump’s promised immigration crackdown, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12055279/oakland-latino-merchants-learn-rights-as-ice-targets-worksites\">small-business owners in the Fruitvale\u003c/a> reeled from a steep decline in sales and foot traffic as immigrant communities limit spending and outings to essentials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Restaurants, grocery stores, travel agencies, retail and auto repair shops along International Boulevard point to a months-long economic slump that could deepen. Businesses across California that serve Latino immigrant customers or employ undocumented workers would be hardest hit, according to experts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the raids start occurring in the [Bay Area] region, you’re going to see huge decreases in revenue and that affects the city budget and the city’s ability to operate — that goes for Oakland and San José as well,” said Abby Raisz, vice president of research at the Bay Area Council Economic Institute.[aside postID=news_12061224 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-MAYOR-LEE-PRESSER-MD-05-KQED.jpg']After an Immigration and Customs Enforcement workplace raid, rattled undocumented workers may not show up to their jobs in construction, agriculture, hospitality, retail and other industries. The disruptions can raise costs for businesses, which then pass them to consumers. Eventually, Raisz said, most of these immigrants try to go back to work out of financial need, but cut back on spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What they won’t do is go back to establishments. They won’t go eat out at restaurants that maybe they would have previously. They won’t shop locally,” Raisz said, calling it “the cost of fear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That affects the business owners, who often are immigrants themselves, especially when we look at areas that are very concentrated with high shares of immigrants,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mass deportations could reduce California’s gross domestic product by $275 billion through labor shortages, supply chain disruptions and reduced household spending, according to a June \u003ca href=\"https://www.bayareaeconomy.org/files/pdf/Economic%20Impact%20of%20Mass%20Deportation_June%202025.pdf\">report\u003c/a> by Raisz and other researchers at the Bay Area Council Economic Institute and UC Merced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has roughly 2.3 million undocumented immigrants — roughly 8% of its workforce — the most of any state. The Bay Area is home to more than 300,000 undocumented workers, with nearly half concentrated in Alameda and Santa Clara counties, according to estimates by the Migration Policy Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061131\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061131\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251022-FRUITVALE-MERCHANTS-MD-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251022-FRUITVALE-MERCHANTS-MD-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251022-FRUITVALE-MERCHANTS-MD-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251022-FRUITVALE-MERCHANTS-MD-07-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Transmatic Transmission in the Fruitvale neighborhood in Oakland on Oct. 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Los Angeles and Chicago, National Guard troops — sometimes armed with rifles — accompanied ICE agents or provided logistical support. Trump said the troops were needed to protect agents from violent protesters and address “out-of-control crime,” a claim local authorities disputed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilbert Alfonso, who has operated a car transmission repair shop in the Fruitvale for 48 years, said he’s been surprised by how quiet streets have remained amid the looming threat of increased immigration enforcement. Deploying the National Guard, he said, to the neighborhood would only make things worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The businesses around me — the stores, the restaurants — they have no customers. They are just not coming out,” Alfonso, who owns Transmatic Transmission, said. “I’ve been here for that many years and this is the worst I’ve ever seen it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He used to handle up to 15 repair jobs a week. Now he’s lucky to get one. Because he owns his building, it blunts the financial hit somewhat, but he feels for other business owners who must come up with the rent money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061130\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061130\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251022-FRUITVALE-MERCHANTS-MD-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251022-FRUITVALE-MERCHANTS-MD-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251022-FRUITVALE-MERCHANTS-MD-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251022-FRUITVALE-MERCHANTS-MD-05-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mural on the facade of Transmatic Transmission in the Fruitvale neighborhood in Oakland on Oct. 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Nobody is driving up or down the streets no more. The foot traffic is hardly anything anymore. My phone doesn’t ring anymore,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sales slump and labor disruptions compound the economic uncertainties small businesses face, said Oscar Garcia, senior vice president of the California Hispanic Chambers of Commerce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Inflation, cost of doing business, cost of your product or your service, gasoline, rent — all that makes it a bigger challenge,” he said, adding that many businesses also lack access to capital or grants once available during the pandemic. “There are many factors that contribute to slow business.”[aside postID=news_12061191 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/GETTYIMAGES-2242445000-KQED.jpg']In Fruitvale, most merchants told KQED that robberies, theft and vandalism had already hurt profits before the ICE raids in L.A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The area including Fruitvale had the most robberies from 2020 through 2024 in Oakland, according to a KQED analysis of police data, though other crimes, such as burglaries and auto theft, were more common elsewhere in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Business owners create economic activity and jobs. These communities must be safe, and I have worked — and will continue to work — with our public safety officials, the Oakland Police Department, and local merchants to determine more effective measures to enhance public safety, which is key to a successful business environment,” Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city budget adopted this year — which lists public safety as a top priority — funds 678 police officers, still short of the 700 required under a 2024 voter-approved ballot measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Violent crime has since fallen nationwide, including in Oakland. In the first half of this year, citywide crime dropped\u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/News-Releases/Police/OPD-Shares-Crime-Statistics-for-First-Half-of-2025\"> significantly\u003c/a> compared to last year, including a 41% drop in robberies, according to police. But most Fruitvale business owners, including Soriano, say they haven’t seen much improvement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soriano is now considering closing her store for good, which she said fills her with dread. She’s kept the doors open by spending her retirement and savings on rent and bills, but worries she and her husband won’t have enough money to get by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I still had the will to fight, to try to move forward. But I’m finding myself in the painful necessity of having to close my business,” she said, as tears streamed down her face. “I’m just so depressed and frustrated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>After an Immigration and Customs Enforcement workplace raid, rattled undocumented workers may not show up to their jobs in construction, agriculture, hospitality, retail and other industries. The disruptions can raise costs for businesses, which then pass them to consumers. Eventually, Raisz said, most of these immigrants try to go back to work out of financial need, but cut back on spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What they won’t do is go back to establishments. They won’t go eat out at restaurants that maybe they would have previously. They won’t shop locally,” Raisz said, calling it “the cost of fear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That affects the business owners, who often are immigrants themselves, especially when we look at areas that are very concentrated with high shares of immigrants,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mass deportations could reduce California’s gross domestic product by $275 billion through labor shortages, supply chain disruptions and reduced household spending, according to a June \u003ca href=\"https://www.bayareaeconomy.org/files/pdf/Economic%20Impact%20of%20Mass%20Deportation_June%202025.pdf\">report\u003c/a> by Raisz and other researchers at the Bay Area Council Economic Institute and UC Merced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has roughly 2.3 million undocumented immigrants — roughly 8% of its workforce — the most of any state. The Bay Area is home to more than 300,000 undocumented workers, with nearly half concentrated in Alameda and Santa Clara counties, according to estimates by the Migration Policy Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061131\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061131\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251022-FRUITVALE-MERCHANTS-MD-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251022-FRUITVALE-MERCHANTS-MD-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251022-FRUITVALE-MERCHANTS-MD-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251022-FRUITVALE-MERCHANTS-MD-07-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Transmatic Transmission in the Fruitvale neighborhood in Oakland on Oct. 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Los Angeles and Chicago, National Guard troops — sometimes armed with rifles — accompanied ICE agents or provided logistical support. Trump said the troops were needed to protect agents from violent protesters and address “out-of-control crime,” a claim local authorities disputed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilbert Alfonso, who has operated a car transmission repair shop in the Fruitvale for 48 years, said he’s been surprised by how quiet streets have remained amid the looming threat of increased immigration enforcement. Deploying the National Guard, he said, to the neighborhood would only make things worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The businesses around me — the stores, the restaurants — they have no customers. They are just not coming out,” Alfonso, who owns Transmatic Transmission, said. “I’ve been here for that many years and this is the worst I’ve ever seen it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He used to handle up to 15 repair jobs a week. Now he’s lucky to get one. 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The foot traffic is hardly anything anymore. My phone doesn’t ring anymore,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sales slump and labor disruptions compound the economic uncertainties small businesses face, said Oscar Garcia, senior vice president of the California Hispanic Chambers of Commerce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Inflation, cost of doing business, cost of your product or your service, gasoline, rent — all that makes it a bigger challenge,” he said, adding that many businesses also lack access to capital or grants once available during the pandemic. “There are many factors that contribute to slow business.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>As protesters rallied across the bay \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061191/activists-federal-agents-clash-at-coast-guard-base-during-immigration-crackdown\">at Alameda’s Coast Guard Island\u003c/a>, a coalition of labor, faith and city leaders gathered Thursday on the steps of San Francisco City Hall to denounce President Donald Trump’s mobilization of federal immigration agents in the Bay Area and share resources for community members who are at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They want us to backtrack our sanctuary policy,” said San Francisco Supervisor Jackie Fielder. “They want us to hand over our neighbors, our co-workers, our friends … to ICE. They want to tap our surveillance networks … to let Trump spy on our streets, our families, our people. They want our police to help them enforce their racist immigration agenda. Well, I say hell no. Not today, not tomorrow, not ever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Led by grassroots group Bay Resistance, the rally’s speakers included San Francisco Supervisors Chyanne Chen and Shamann Walton, as well as representatives from the San Francisco Labor Council, United Educators of San Francisco, SEIU Local 87, Mission Action and Trabajadores Unidos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The groups stood against Trump’s decision this week to send more than 100 Customs and Border Protection agents to Alameda’s Coast Guard base as part of a\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061080/federal-border-agents-to-arrive-in-bay-area-as-cities-brace-for-enforcement-surge\"> major immigration enforcement operation\u003c/a> in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early Thursday morning, around 300 peaceful protesters assembled outside the Oakland entrance to Coast Guard Island. Activists told KQED that CBP agents drove through the crowd in SUVs, setting off flash-bang grenades; one of their vehicles ran over a protester’s foot. Another masked agent shot pepper powder at a reverend who attempted to block a vehicle, according to a witness. Two people were arrested as the protest dragged on into the afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061292\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061292\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251023_SF-CITY-HALL_HERNANDEZ-6-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251023_SF-CITY-HALL_HERNANDEZ-6-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251023_SF-CITY-HALL_HERNANDEZ-6-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251023_SF-CITY-HALL_HERNANDEZ-6-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hundreds gathered on the steps of San Francisco City Hall for a press conference organized by faith, labor and immigrant rights groups opposing federal intervention and calling for community protection and solidarity on Oct. 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Elected officials, including Gov. Gavin Newsom, as well as community activists, have warned that Trump could use protests as a pretext to send in the National Guard to San Francisco or other Bay Area cities. But Thursday morning, Mayor Daniel Lurie\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061209/lurie-trump-is-calling-off-plans-to-send-federal-troops-to-san-francisco\"> announced that he received a late-night phone call\u003c/a> from the president, who told him he’d call off federal deployment to the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My team will continue to monitor the situation closely, and our city remains prepared for any scenario,” Lurie said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the speakers on the City Hall steps were skeptical. “We want everyone to know that, regardless of new announcements, we stand with our communities,” Walton said. “We have to be careful because we do not trust this administration.”[aside postID=news_12061209 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250428_WarrantlessSearches_GC-29_qed.jpg']Fielder went further, denouncing Lurie’s statement that, although he opposes federalization of the National Guard, he’d welcome collaboration with the FBI; Drug Enforcement Administration; Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; and federal prosecutors to arrest drug dealers in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We should not negotiate with a fascist administration,” Fielder said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several speakers pointed out that even if Trump doesn’t deploy the National Guard, CBP agents in Alameda still put people at risk. “As everyone knows, our workers live in the nine Bay Area counties and beyond,” said Kim Tavaglione, executive director of the San Francisco Labor Council. “Labor is vowing to protect every worker in every county in the Bay Area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cassondra Curiel, president of United Educators of San Francisco, said that her union members are worried that heightened immigration enforcement increases their chances of being racially profiled and arrested, even if they are citizens or permanent residents. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/09/13/nx-s1-5507125/the-supreme-court-clears-the-way-for-ice-agents-to-treat-race-as-grounds-for-immigration-stops\">recent Supreme Court ruling\u003c/a> cleared the way for immigration enforcement agents to use race as a pretext to stop and detain people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know these agents are going to profile Latino communities, Spanish speakers, Black people and Asian people, which is the majority — literally 78% — of our entire district,” Curiel told KQED in an interview after the rally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061291\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061291\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251023_SF-CITY-HALL_HERNANDEZ-3-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251023_SF-CITY-HALL_HERNANDEZ-3-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251023_SF-CITY-HALL_HERNANDEZ-3-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251023_SF-CITY-HALL_HERNANDEZ-3-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rev. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Fielder went further, denouncing Lurie’s statement that, although he opposes federalization of the National Guard, he’d welcome collaboration with the FBI; Drug Enforcement Administration; Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; and federal prosecutors to arrest drug dealers in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We should not negotiate with a fascist administration,” Fielder said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several speakers pointed out that even if Trump doesn’t deploy the National Guard, CBP agents in Alameda still put people at risk. “As everyone knows, our workers live in the nine Bay Area counties and beyond,” said Kim Tavaglione, executive director of the San Francisco Labor Council. “Labor is vowing to protect every worker in every county in the Bay Area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cassondra Curiel, president of United Educators of San Francisco, said that her union members are worried that heightened immigration enforcement increases their chances of being racially profiled and arrested, even if they are citizens or permanent residents. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/09/13/nx-s1-5507125/the-supreme-court-clears-the-way-for-ice-agents-to-treat-race-as-grounds-for-immigration-stops\">recent Supreme Court ruling\u003c/a> cleared the way for immigration enforcement agents to use race as a pretext to stop and detain people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know these agents are going to profile Latino communities, Spanish speakers, Black people and Asian people, which is the majority — literally 78% — of our entire district,” Curiel told KQED in an interview after the rally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061291\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061291\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251023_SF-CITY-HALL_HERNANDEZ-3-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251023_SF-CITY-HALL_HERNANDEZ-3-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251023_SF-CITY-HALL_HERNANDEZ-3-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251023_SF-CITY-HALL_HERNANDEZ-3-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rev. Deborah Lee, co-executive director of the Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity, addresses the crowd on Oct. 23, 2025 rally at San Francisco City Hall. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many of the activists pointed to mutual aid resources, including those assembled by \u003ca href=\"https://www.bayresistance.org/get-ready\">Bay Resistance\u003c/a>. The organization has a know-your-rights toolkit and phone numbers to a rapid-response network where people can report ICE agent sightings in all nine Bay Area counties, and get help if a loved one has been detained. Volunteers have also been watching street corners where day laborers gather and reporting ICE activity through the \u003ca href=\"https://ndlon.org/adopt-a-day-labor-corner/\">Adopt a Corner program\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laura Valdez, executive director of Mission Action and a representative of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfrrn.org/\">San Francisco Rapid Response Network\u003c/a>, implored immigrants to take precautions, including sharing identifying information such as their full legal name and immigration file “A-number” with trusted loved ones so that her organization can help locate them if they get detained by ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This might be the start of mass enforcement of our communities, and we need to prepare adequately,” Valdez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Resistance will lead another protest on Thursday at 5 p.m. at San Francisco’s Embarcadero Plaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>East Bay officials say they are still prepared for a possible increase in federal immigration enforcement in the absence of clear information about what \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061209/lurie-trump-is-calling-off-plans-to-send-federal-troops-to-san-francisco\">President Trump’s decision to call off a federal “surge” in San Francisco\u003c/a> means for Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking at a press conference at Oakland City Hall Thursday morning, Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee said the city was monitoring the situation and would keep residents informed of any developments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is very fluid,” Lee said, flanked by East Bay officials at the local, state and federal levels. “There’s no information we can bring to you today to bring you up to date on what plans they have in place, but we are moving forward with our plans and we are prepared.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor’s press conference was called Wednesday afternoon after the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/sf-immigration-operation-21114328.php\">\u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> reported\u003c/a> that the Trump administration would dispatch more than 100 federal agents, including from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, to the U.S. Coast Guard base in Alameda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What the federal agents would do was called into question Thursday morning after San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie announced he had spoken to Trump via phone late Wednesday and that the president had said he was calling off plans for a federal deployment in San Francisco. Trump, in a \u003ca href=\"https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115424560133045127\">Truth Social post\u003c/a>, said he was cancelling a “surge” in the city planned for Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061254\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061254\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-MAYOR-LEE-PRESSER-MD-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-MAYOR-LEE-PRESSER-MD-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-MAYOR-LEE-PRESSER-MD-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-MAYOR-LEE-PRESSER-MD-07-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A person attending Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee’s press conference holds a sign that reads ‘Immigrants Are Essential’ at Oakland City Hall on Oct. 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Protesters gathered at the road leading to Coast Guard Base Alameda Thursday where \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061191/activists-federal-agents-clash-at-coast-guard-base-during-immigration-crackdown\">they told KQED\u003c/a> that vans of CPB officials had entered early in the morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the press conference in Oakland, Lee told reporters she had spoken with Lurie about his conversation with the president, and had been in touch with the governor’s office, but had not spoken with anyone in the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The federal administration, of course, has escalated its rhetoric and its enforcement posture in the Bay Area,” Lee said. “We know that Border Patrol agents are being stationed on Coast Guard Island. But let me be clear, [in] our city, as I said, we are fully prepared. We’re monitoring developments closely and will keep our residents informed if there are any confirmed changes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Thursday afternoon, Lee’s office said that she still had not received any communication from the White House or the Department of Homeland Security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will engage with anyone, at any level of government, to protect Oakland residents, as long as it respects our community’s values and constitutional rights,” Lee said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the press conference, law enforcement officials from Oakland and Alameda County reassured residents that local police would not assist federal immigration officers should they ramp up enforcement in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061258\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061258\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-MAYOR-LEE-PRESSER-MD-12-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-MAYOR-LEE-PRESSER-MD-12-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-MAYOR-LEE-PRESSER-MD-12-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-MAYOR-LEE-PRESSER-MD-12-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alameda County District Attorney Ursula Jones Dickson speaks at a press conference at Oakland City Hall on Oct. 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They also urged protestors not to give the administration an excuse to escalate any possible response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that they’re baiting Oakland and that’s why San Francisco all of a sudden is off the table,” said Alameda County District Attorney Ursula Jones Dickson. “I’m not going to be quiet about what we know is coming. We know that their expectation is that Oakland is going to do something to cause them to make us the example. That’s not what we’re doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones Dickson said local law enforcement cannot stop federal officials from coming into Alameda County or exercising a legal warrant, but the DA’s office will protect the rights of victims of crime, regardless of their immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OPD Assistant Chief James Beere reminded residents that local police should be identifiable by their uniforms or their credentials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061256\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061256\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-MAYOR-LEE-PRESSER-MD-09-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-MAYOR-LEE-PRESSER-MD-09-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-MAYOR-LEE-PRESSER-MD-09-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-MAYOR-LEE-PRESSER-MD-09-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Beere, assistant chief of police with the Oakland Police Department, speaks at a press conference at Oakland City Hall on Oct. 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I want to make it clear, if anyone attempts to enter your house and detain you and they are not in uniform, or they do not show official credentials, please call 911 immediately,” Beere said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other officials from the region, including State Senators Jesse Arreguin and Aisha Wahab, State Assemblymembers Mia Bonta and Liz Ortega and Alameda County Supervisors Nikki Fortunato Bas and Elisa Marquez were also in attendance, along with Oakland Fire Chief Damon Covington, OUSD Superintendent Denise Sadler and members of the Oakland City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Police Chief Floyd Mitchell, who recently announced he will leave the department in December, was absent.[aside postID=news_12061209 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250428_WarrantlessSearches_GC-29_qed.jpg']Immigrant rights advocates disseminated a hotline phone number and urged people to call if they witnessed immigration officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are anticipating an escalation,” Lourdes Martinez with Centro Legal de la Raza said at the press conference. “What has happened in other cities, such as Washington, D.C., Chicago, Portland, is that if there has been deployment of additional federal law enforcement, it has really strengthened ICE and their ability to execute more detentions. So that is what we are bracing for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his post on Truth Social just minutes before the press conference, Trump wrote that he had decided to call off the San Francisco operation after receiving calls from NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked about the post, East Bay Congresswoman Lateefah Simon, said she was more concerned about Trump’s decision-making processes than the influence tech has on his administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s really concerning to me,” Simon said, “[is] not just Silicon Valley, but the fact that the president of the United States would move our men and women, our military, based on hunches and then get a phone call, not based on data, and then call it back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That tells you all you need to know about an administration not focused on fact, not focused on public safety, not focused on coordination, not focused on ensuring that the people of this district and beyond are doing well,” she added. “I think that we’re in trouble as a nation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Trump, in a \u003ca href=\"https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115424560133045127\">Truth Social post\u003c/a>, said he was cancelling a “surge” in the city planned for Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061254\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061254\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-MAYOR-LEE-PRESSER-MD-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-MAYOR-LEE-PRESSER-MD-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-MAYOR-LEE-PRESSER-MD-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-MAYOR-LEE-PRESSER-MD-07-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A person attending Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee’s press conference holds a sign that reads ‘Immigrants Are Essential’ at Oakland City Hall on Oct. 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Protesters gathered at the road leading to Coast Guard Base Alameda Thursday where \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061191/activists-federal-agents-clash-at-coast-guard-base-during-immigration-crackdown\">they told KQED\u003c/a> that vans of CPB officials had entered early in the morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the press conference in Oakland, Lee told reporters she had spoken with Lurie about his conversation with the president, and had been in touch with the governor’s office, but had not spoken with anyone in the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The federal administration, of course, has escalated its rhetoric and its enforcement posture in the Bay Area,” Lee said. “We know that Border Patrol agents are being stationed on Coast Guard Island. But let me be clear, [in] our city, as I said, we are fully prepared. 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"content": "\u003cp>Two people have been arrested at the entrance to Alameda’s Coast Guard Island Thursday, where hundreds of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/bay-area\">Bay Area\u003c/a> residents have been stationed for hours, protesting the Trump administration’s deployment of U.S. Customs and Border Protection to Coast Guard Base Alameda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agents began arriving early Thursday morning, according to activists, as part of President Donald Trump’s long-anticipated expansion of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061080/federal-border-agents-to-arrive-in-bay-area-as-cities-brace-for-enforcement-surge\">immigration enforcement operations in the Bay Area\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protesters said they began picketing at the intersection near the sole access bridge to the Coast Guard base overnight, before San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie and President Donald Trump announced Thursday that a planned federal “surge” into San Francisco this weekend had been called off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president has not addressed other Bay Area cities, which remain on high alert, or clarified what this means for the CBP officers who arrived in the East Bay early Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 2:30 p.m., organizers called on protesters to disperse and reconvene at Fruitvale Station in East Oakland around 4 p.m., after California Highway Patrol officers said they would arrest people who didn’t clear the intersection to allow civilians working on the island to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061195\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061195\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-02-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-02-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-02-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-02-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Coast Guard security stand guard as demonstrators gather in front of the entrance to a U.S. Coast Guard base in Oakland on Oct. 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some protesters refusing to move have engaged in an ongoing standoff with the law enforcement officials. By 3 p.m., CHP had largely cleared the middle of the intersection, but many people remained on the sides of the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tensions first flared early Thursday morning, when around six marked CBP vans were able to enter the base shortly before 7 a.m. One official threw what appeared to be a flash-bang grenade into the crowd, and a van drove over the ankle of an organizer who was attempting to speak with the agents inside, according to activists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another agent exited their vehicle and shot pepper powder at a local faith leader attempting to block the road, according to Penny Nixon, with the Peninsula Solidarity Cohort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061204\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061204\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/GETTYIMAGES-2242801100-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1377\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/GETTYIMAGES-2242801100-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/GETTYIMAGES-2242801100-KQED-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/GETTYIMAGES-2242801100-KQED-1536x1058.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In an aerial view, U.S. Coast Guard personnel stand guard at the entrance to Coast Guard Island as protesters block the road on Oct. 23, 2025, in Oakland. Federal agents have arrived in the San Francisco Bay Area for immigration operations. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He [the reverend] was saying, ‘I come in peace’ in front of a car and an [immigration] agent geared up, masked, got out of the car, raised his weapon and shot,” she said. “What they are doing is immoral. It is anti-American, anti-democracy. But more than anything, it is immoral.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Homeland Security said in a statement Friday that law enforcement provided “ample notice” to clear the street and “used appropriate force to clear the area for the safety of law enforcement.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Purposefully impeding access to federal buildings and law enforcement is dangerous and is not peacefully protesting,” a spokesperson said via email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smaller scuffles continued throughout the morning, but most of the protest was calm, with a steady flow of people joining and leaving the picket line at the intersection at the base’s access bridge. Alameda resident Nadine Skinner stopped by on her lunch break with apple strudels and beignets for the protesters who’d been standing in the streets for hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For those who are still here staying, I want to support them and support our community,” she told KQED. “It’s hungering work protecting your community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Disruption is a way to send a message … and right now, what’s going on is that ICE is not welcome in the Bay,” said Melanie Jasper, who’s been at the protest since 8:30 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that after at least some federal agents have accessed the island: “We don’t want to let them off their s—-y little island. If they want to hang out there, they can. They can’t come into our community.”[aside postID=news_12061209 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250428_WarrantlessSearches_GC-29_qed.jpg']Just after 12:30 p.m., California Highway Patrol officers arrived, saying they needed to keep access on and off the island open after emergency personnel had been unable to get through in response to an earlier 911 call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Andrew Barclay, CHP spokesperson, said the agency “supports peoples’ right to First Amendment speech, protected protest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Initially, protesters appeared to abide by CHP’s request, moving cars out of their way while continuing to sing hymns, bang drums and play music. But after CHP threatened to begin making arrests if protesters did not move around 2:30 p.m., organizers called on the crowd to disperse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protest in Oakland has been the first of many expected in the Bay Area in response to the immigration officials’ arrival. Hundreds also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061227/not-today-sf-officials-activists-vow-to-mobilize-against-immigration-enforcement\">gathered on the steps of San Francisco’s City Hall \u003c/a>Thursday afternoon to oppose immigration enforcement in the city after the dispatch triggered fears that Trump was following through on promises to ramp up operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandra, 25, arrived at the demonstration shortly before noon. She said she planned to stay for a few hours before heading into San Francisco for another rally planned this evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I come from a family of mixed-status people,” said Sandra, an East Bay resident and DACA recipient. “I wake up, it’s on my mind. Go to sleep, it is on my mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061197\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061197\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-04-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-04-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-04-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-04-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators gather in front of the entrance to a U.S. Coast Guard base in Oakland on Oct. 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s just the everyday fear, like constantly having to remind your family members that they have rights, constantly having to remind people not to open the doors … I have family members who are scared to go to the grocery store, scared to get gas, scared to go get water. Basic necessities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the summer, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and CBP officers have ramped up local enforcement operations, moving to have undocumented immigrants’ asylum cases dismissed and making detentions outside of courtrooms and ICE field offices. The move was unprecedented prior to the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels like an invasion,” said Oakland resident Sonia Diermayer, who was at the Oakland protest earlier Thursday morning. “It feels as if the federal government is basically invading our communities to spread terrorism and fear, and it’s working.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recent expanded immigration enforcement in Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Chicago and Portland, Oregon, has been followed by Trump sending National Guard troops to the cities. Though he has cited alleged crime spikes and violent protests against immigration enforcement operations as justification, with little evidence to show for it, the rollouts of federal troops have all targeted Democrat-led cities and raised criticisms of abuse of power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last few weeks, Trump has set his eyes on the Bay Area, and specifically San Francisco, as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060875/san-francisco-prepares-necessary-legal-action-if-trump-deploys-national-guard\">next target for National Guard deployment\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061200\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061200\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-08-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-08-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-08-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-08-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A used flash-bang device lies on the ground near the entrance to a U.S. Coast Guard base in Oakland on Oct. 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s the authoritarian playbook,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said during a press conference Wednesday. “For this administration, you send first masked men to the cities that you want to militarize … communities are torn asunder, it creates anxiety and stress, and that manifests into expressions of free speech. And then you use those expressions and those images as the justification to send the guard and suppress free speech, suppress free expression.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie and Trump confirmed that plans for a federal “surge” into San Francisco Saturday were called off after late-night conversations between the president, his “friends in the city” — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060874/behind-benioffs-call-for-national-guard-troops\">including Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff \u003c/a>— and Lurie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I spoke to Mayor Lurie last night and he asked, very nicely, that I give him a chance to see if he can turn it around,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social Thursday. “The people of San Francisco have come together on fighting Crime, especially since we began to take charge of that very nasty subject.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie did not provide any information about other Bay Area cities while speaking to reporters Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be really disturbing to me if Lurie didn’t have an agreement with the other mayors of the Bay Area … to make sure that we are united in stopping ICE from harming our communities,” said Michelle Mascarenhas, who was among the protesters. “That’s what I would be concerned about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José Mayor Matt Mahan said in a social media statement that Trump did the “right thing” by calling off the deployment in San Francisco, adding that the South Bay city was the “safest big city in the nation because of the trust built between our police officers and our residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know how to keep our community safe — and we will continue to do so regardless of immigration status,” he wrote on\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/MattMahanSJ/status/1981412777911865527?t=qqjRBZu7SkBmsQvQfGicvQ&s=19\"> X\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee said at a press conference Thursday that her office hasn’t received any information and will \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061224/oakland-braces-for-possible-federal-action-after-san-francisco-dodges-trumps-attention\">continue to prepare\u003c/a>. On Wednesday, Lee said the city “remains a proud sanctuary city committed to standing with our immigrant families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to have a clean conscience for the future generations after,” Diermayer said. “That I’ve done my part. For my grandchildren, and children, and nieces and nephews … I want to give them some hope that there’s a future for them here in America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ebaldassari\">\u003cem>Erin Baldassari\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> and \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/abandlamudi\">\u003cem>Adhiti Bandlamudi\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Two people have been arrested at the entrance to Alameda’s Coast Guard Island Thursday, where hundreds of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/bay-area\">Bay Area\u003c/a> residents have been stationed for hours, protesting the Trump administration’s deployment of U.S. Customs and Border Protection to Coast Guard Base Alameda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agents began arriving early Thursday morning, according to activists, as part of President Donald Trump’s long-anticipated expansion of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061080/federal-border-agents-to-arrive-in-bay-area-as-cities-brace-for-enforcement-surge\">immigration enforcement operations in the Bay Area\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protesters said they began picketing at the intersection near the sole access bridge to the Coast Guard base overnight, before San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie and President Donald Trump announced Thursday that a planned federal “surge” into San Francisco this weekend had been called off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president has not addressed other Bay Area cities, which remain on high alert, or clarified what this means for the CBP officers who arrived in the East Bay early Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 2:30 p.m., organizers called on protesters to disperse and reconvene at Fruitvale Station in East Oakland around 4 p.m., after California Highway Patrol officers said they would arrest people who didn’t clear the intersection to allow civilians working on the island to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061195\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061195\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-02-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-02-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-02-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-02-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Coast Guard security stand guard as demonstrators gather in front of the entrance to a U.S. Coast Guard base in Oakland on Oct. 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some protesters refusing to move have engaged in an ongoing standoff with the law enforcement officials. By 3 p.m., CHP had largely cleared the middle of the intersection, but many people remained on the sides of the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tensions first flared early Thursday morning, when around six marked CBP vans were able to enter the base shortly before 7 a.m. One official threw what appeared to be a flash-bang grenade into the crowd, and a van drove over the ankle of an organizer who was attempting to speak with the agents inside, according to activists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another agent exited their vehicle and shot pepper powder at a local faith leader attempting to block the road, according to Penny Nixon, with the Peninsula Solidarity Cohort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061204\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061204\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/GETTYIMAGES-2242801100-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1377\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/GETTYIMAGES-2242801100-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/GETTYIMAGES-2242801100-KQED-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/GETTYIMAGES-2242801100-KQED-1536x1058.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In an aerial view, U.S. Coast Guard personnel stand guard at the entrance to Coast Guard Island as protesters block the road on Oct. 23, 2025, in Oakland. Federal agents have arrived in the San Francisco Bay Area for immigration operations. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He [the reverend] was saying, ‘I come in peace’ in front of a car and an [immigration] agent geared up, masked, got out of the car, raised his weapon and shot,” she said. “What they are doing is immoral. It is anti-American, anti-democracy. But more than anything, it is immoral.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Homeland Security said in a statement Friday that law enforcement provided “ample notice” to clear the street and “used appropriate force to clear the area for the safety of law enforcement.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Purposefully impeding access to federal buildings and law enforcement is dangerous and is not peacefully protesting,” a spokesperson said via email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smaller scuffles continued throughout the morning, but most of the protest was calm, with a steady flow of people joining and leaving the picket line at the intersection at the base’s access bridge. Alameda resident Nadine Skinner stopped by on her lunch break with apple strudels and beignets for the protesters who’d been standing in the streets for hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For those who are still here staying, I want to support them and support our community,” she told KQED. “It’s hungering work protecting your community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Disruption is a way to send a message … and right now, what’s going on is that ICE is not welcome in the Bay,” said Melanie Jasper, who’s been at the protest since 8:30 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that after at least some federal agents have accessed the island: “We don’t want to let them off their s—-y little island. If they want to hang out there, they can. They can’t come into our community.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Just after 12:30 p.m., California Highway Patrol officers arrived, saying they needed to keep access on and off the island open after emergency personnel had been unable to get through in response to an earlier 911 call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Andrew Barclay, CHP spokesperson, said the agency “supports peoples’ right to First Amendment speech, protected protest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Initially, protesters appeared to abide by CHP’s request, moving cars out of their way while continuing to sing hymns, bang drums and play music. But after CHP threatened to begin making arrests if protesters did not move around 2:30 p.m., organizers called on the crowd to disperse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protest in Oakland has been the first of many expected in the Bay Area in response to the immigration officials’ arrival. Hundreds also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061227/not-today-sf-officials-activists-vow-to-mobilize-against-immigration-enforcement\">gathered on the steps of San Francisco’s City Hall \u003c/a>Thursday afternoon to oppose immigration enforcement in the city after the dispatch triggered fears that Trump was following through on promises to ramp up operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandra, 25, arrived at the demonstration shortly before noon. She said she planned to stay for a few hours before heading into San Francisco for another rally planned this evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I come from a family of mixed-status people,” said Sandra, an East Bay resident and DACA recipient. “I wake up, it’s on my mind. Go to sleep, it is on my mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061197\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061197\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-04-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-04-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-04-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-04-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators gather in front of the entrance to a U.S. Coast Guard base in Oakland on Oct. 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s just the everyday fear, like constantly having to remind your family members that they have rights, constantly having to remind people not to open the doors … I have family members who are scared to go to the grocery store, scared to get gas, scared to go get water. Basic necessities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the summer, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and CBP officers have ramped up local enforcement operations, moving to have undocumented immigrants’ asylum cases dismissed and making detentions outside of courtrooms and ICE field offices. The move was unprecedented prior to the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels like an invasion,” said Oakland resident Sonia Diermayer, who was at the Oakland protest earlier Thursday morning. “It feels as if the federal government is basically invading our communities to spread terrorism and fear, and it’s working.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recent expanded immigration enforcement in Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Chicago and Portland, Oregon, has been followed by Trump sending National Guard troops to the cities. Though he has cited alleged crime spikes and violent protests against immigration enforcement operations as justification, with little evidence to show for it, the rollouts of federal troops have all targeted Democrat-led cities and raised criticisms of abuse of power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last few weeks, Trump has set his eyes on the Bay Area, and specifically San Francisco, as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060875/san-francisco-prepares-necessary-legal-action-if-trump-deploys-national-guard\">next target for National Guard deployment\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061200\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061200\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-08-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-08-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-08-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-08-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A used flash-bang device lies on the ground near the entrance to a U.S. Coast Guard base in Oakland on Oct. 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s the authoritarian playbook,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said during a press conference Wednesday. “For this administration, you send first masked men to the cities that you want to militarize … communities are torn asunder, it creates anxiety and stress, and that manifests into expressions of free speech. And then you use those expressions and those images as the justification to send the guard and suppress free speech, suppress free expression.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie and Trump confirmed that plans for a federal “surge” into San Francisco Saturday were called off after late-night conversations between the president, his “friends in the city” — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060874/behind-benioffs-call-for-national-guard-troops\">including Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff \u003c/a>— and Lurie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I spoke to Mayor Lurie last night and he asked, very nicely, that I give him a chance to see if he can turn it around,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social Thursday. “The people of San Francisco have come together on fighting Crime, especially since we began to take charge of that very nasty subject.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie did not provide any information about other Bay Area cities while speaking to reporters Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be really disturbing to me if Lurie didn’t have an agreement with the other mayors of the Bay Area … to make sure that we are united in stopping ICE from harming our communities,” said Michelle Mascarenhas, who was among the protesters. “That’s what I would be concerned about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José Mayor Matt Mahan said in a social media statement that Trump did the “right thing” by calling off the deployment in San Francisco, adding that the South Bay city was the “safest big city in the nation because of the trust built between our police officers and our residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know how to keep our community safe — and we will continue to do so regardless of immigration status,” he wrote on\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/MattMahanSJ/status/1981412777911865527?t=qqjRBZu7SkBmsQvQfGicvQ&s=19\"> X\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee said at a press conference Thursday that her office hasn’t received any information and will \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061224/oakland-braces-for-possible-federal-action-after-san-francisco-dodges-trumps-attention\">continue to prepare\u003c/a>. On Wednesday, Lee said the city “remains a proud sanctuary city committed to standing with our immigrant families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to have a clean conscience for the future generations after,” Diermayer said. “That I’ve done my part. For my grandchildren, and children, and nieces and nephews … I want to give them some hope that there’s a future for them here in America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ebaldassari\">\u003cem>Erin Baldassari\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> and \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/abandlamudi\">\u003cem>Adhiti Bandlamudi\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/daniel-lurie\">Mayor Daniel Lurie\u003c/a> announced Thursday that President Donald Trump is “calling off any plans for a federal deployment in San Francisco,” after a phone call with the president the night before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor also said he spoke with Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, who “reaffirmed that direction,” in a conversation Thursday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have work to do, and we would welcome continued partnerships with the FBI, [Drug Enforcement Administration], [Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives,] and U.S. Attorney to get drugs and drug dealers off our streets, but having the military and militarized immigration enforcement in our city will hinder our recovery,” Lurie said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump echoed the mayor in a statement on Truth Social, saying Lurie asked “very nicely” to rethink a “surge” of federal troops planned for Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I told him I think he is making a mistake, because we can do it much faster, and remove the criminals that the Law does not permit him to remove,” the president posted. “The people of San Francisco have come together on fighting Crime, especially since we began to take charge of that very nasty subject.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The news comes as federal officials arrived Thursday morning in the East Bay, where Customs and Border Protection is set to begin using Alameda’s Coast Guard base as a “place of operation” for expanded federal \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061080/federal-border-agents-to-arrive-in-bay-area-as-cities-brace-for-enforcement-surge\">immigration enforcement operations\u003c/a>. It remains unclear what Lurie’s announcement will mean for the rest of the Bay Area, or whether it applied to CBP officials who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061191/activists-federal-agents-clash-at-coast-guard-base-during-immigration-crackdown\">arrived at Alameda’s Coast Guard Island\u003c/a> earlier Thursday morning as part of an apparent expansion of immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was told the surge was being called off. [Trump] only spoke about San Francisco prior, so all I can say is what he told me,” Lurie told reporters midday Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee said the city hasn’t received any new information and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061224/oakland-braces-for-possible-federal-action-after-san-francisco-dodges-trumps-attention\">will continue to prepare\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061199\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061199\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-07-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-07-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-07-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-07-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators gather in front of the entrance to a U.S. Coast Guard base in Oakland on Oct. 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In San José, Mayor Matt Mahan said that Trump did the “right thing” by calling off a federal deployment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know how to keep our community safe — and we will continue to do so regardless of immigration status,” he \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/MattMahanSJ/status/1981412777911865527?t=qqjRBZu7SkBmsQvQfGicvQ&s=19\">wrote on X.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As federal officials arrived at the bridge access to the base early Thursday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061191/activists-federal-agents-clash-at-coast-guard-base-during-immigration-crackdown\">clashes broke out with protesters gathered to block their path\u003c/a>, injuring at least two people. More demonstrations are planned throughout the day across the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While activists stationed by the bridge cheered upon hearing Lurie’s announcement, many said they would continue to protest the immigration agents’ arrival.[aside postID=news_12061191 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/GETTYIMAGES-2242445000-KQED.jpg']Lurie said his team remains “prepared for any scenario” and has a plan ready to be activated at any moment if necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is my sincere hope that we never have to put that planning into action,” he told reporters Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am profoundly grateful to all the San Franciscans who came together over the last several days during a difficult time,” he continued. “This takes everyone. Our community, our values, and our progress have been on full display. This is our city at our best.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi commended Lurie’s leadership, saying his handling of the potential deployment demonstrated a “steadfast commitment to the safety and well-being of San Franciscans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mayor Lurie has underscored that public safety must be driven by local priorities, respectful of our values and communities,” she wrote in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all local leaders were satisfied with Lurie’s announcement, though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Jackie Fielder, who represents San Francisco’s Mission District, a neighborhood with a significant Latino community, said she was concerned that the mayor “would welcome continued partnerships” with federal law enforcement agencies, which have been reassigned to conduct immigration enforcement activities under Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we in San Francisco uphold a criminal justice system that ensures due process, Trump does not,” she said in a statement. “Trump has said he will come after presumed criminals, but his forces have come after law-abiding people in other cities, regardless of citizenship status … Welcoming ATF, FBI, DEA under Pam Bondi is a dangerous invitation to a fascist administration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041396\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041396\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Supervisor Jackie Fielder speaks during a press conference with elected and public safety officials and labor leaders in front of City Hall in San Francisco on Jan. 28, 2025, to reaffirm San Francisco’s commitment to being a Sanctuary City. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lurie said the city has ongoing partnerships with federal law enforcement agencies to fight pervasive fentanyl use, and added that in a call Thursday with Attorney General Pam Bondi, she “echoed her willingness to partner with our local law enforcement to combat fentanyl and hold drug traffickers accountable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other cities where Trump has deployed National Guard troops, he’s first sent in additional immigration agents, which has incited protests and offered a justification for the federal military forces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent weeks, Trump has set his eye on the Bay Area for National Guard deployment, saying in a Fox News appearance Sunday that troops would come to San Francisco, floating the possible invocation of the Insurrection Act to carry out the deployment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, Gov. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Lurie said his team remains “prepared for any scenario” and has a plan ready to be activated at any moment if necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is my sincere hope that we never have to put that planning into action,” he told reporters Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am profoundly grateful to all the San Franciscans who came together over the last several days during a difficult time,” he continued. “This takes everyone. Our community, our values, and our progress have been on full display. This is our city at our best.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi commended Lurie’s leadership, saying his handling of the potential deployment demonstrated a “steadfast commitment to the safety and well-being of San Franciscans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mayor Lurie has underscored that public safety must be driven by local priorities, respectful of our values and communities,” she wrote in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all local leaders were satisfied with Lurie’s announcement, though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Jackie Fielder, who represents San Francisco’s Mission District, a neighborhood with a significant Latino community, said she was concerned that the mayor “would welcome continued partnerships” with federal law enforcement agencies, which have been reassigned to conduct immigration enforcement activities under Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we in San Francisco uphold a criminal justice system that ensures due process, Trump does not,” she said in a statement. “Trump has said he will come after presumed criminals, but his forces have come after law-abiding people in other cities, regardless of citizenship status … Welcoming ATF, FBI, DEA under Pam Bondi is a dangerous invitation to a fascist administration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041396\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041396\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Supervisor Jackie Fielder speaks during a press conference with elected and public safety officials and labor leaders in front of City Hall in San Francisco on Jan. 28, 2025, to reaffirm San Francisco’s commitment to being a Sanctuary City. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lurie said the city has ongoing partnerships with federal law enforcement agencies to fight pervasive fentanyl use, and added that in a call Thursday with Attorney General Pam Bondi, she “echoed her willingness to partner with our local law enforcement to combat fentanyl and hold drug traffickers accountable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other cities where Trump has deployed National Guard troops, he’s first sent in additional immigration agents, which has incited protests and offered a justification for the federal military forces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent weeks, Trump has set his eye on the Bay Area for National Guard deployment, saying in a Fox News appearance Sunday that troops would come to San Francisco, floating the possible invocation of the Insurrection Act to carry out the deployment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, Gov. Gavin Newsom called the move part of the “authoritarian playbook.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You send first masked men to the cities that you want to militarize … communities are torn asunder, it creates anxiety and stress, and that manifests into expressions of free speech,” he said. “And then you use those expressions and those images as the justification to send the guard and suppress free speech, suppress free expression.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/adahlstromeckman\">\u003cem>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/sjohnson\">\u003cem>Sydney Johnson\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> and \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ahall\">\u003cem>Alex Hall\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> Mayor Daniel Lurie is directing local law enforcement to support immigrant communities, protect peaceful protesters and refrain from assisting with federal civil immigration enforcement — in line with the city’s sanctuary policy — ahead of the anticipated arrival of U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents in the Bay Area this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor on Wednesday announced the new \u003ca href=\"https://media.api.sf.gov/documents/2025-05_Executive_Directive.pdf\">executive directive\u003c/a> and said he had activated the city’s Department of Emergency Management shortly after reports that the Trump administration had \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061080/federal-border-agents-to-arrive-in-bay-area-as-cities-brace-for-enforcement-surge\">dispatched roughly 100 federal agents\u003c/a> from U.S. Customs and Border Protection to the region. They are slated to arrive at the Alameda Coast Guard base on Thursday, KQED has confirmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Guard has previously deployed in cities where federal immigration agents are carrying out enforcement operations and local leaders are anticipating that troops will come to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a quickly scheduled public address, Lurie criticized aggressive immigration enforcement raids and displays of force by the National Guard, and called on San Franciscans to peacefully protest. In keeping with his typical approach, he avoided calling out President Donald Trump or the Trump administration by name, instead referring to “this federal administration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These tactics are designed to incite backlash, chaos and violence, which are then used as an excuse to deploy military personnel. They are intentionally creating a dangerous situation in the name of public safety,” Lurie said. “And while we cannot control the federal government, here in San Francisco, we define who we are. We stick to our values.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051970\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051970\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/NationalGuardTrumpAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1337\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/NationalGuardTrumpAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/NationalGuardTrumpAP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/NationalGuardTrumpAP-1536x1027.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Federal agents stage at MacArthur Park on July 7, 2025, in Los Angeles, California. \u003ccite>(Damian Dovarganes/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Arrests outside of San Francisco’s immigration courthouse by ICE agents have increased this year. The mayor’s latest order calls on the city’s law enforcement agencies to “support San Francisco’s immigrant communities” and directs departments to “coordinate public safety and communication procedures in the event of enhanced federal immigration enforcement actions or federal deployment of the National Guard in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s response comes one day after City Attorney David Chiu said \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060875/san-francisco-prepares-necessary-legal-action-if-trump-deploys-national-guard\">his office is prepared to sue the Trump administration\u003c/a> if the president follows through on recent threats to send the National Guard to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, the Board of Supervisors pressed Lurie over his administration’s plans for keeping residents safe in the face of increased ICE raids. The mayor responded by saying that crime rates are dramatically lower this year than in previous years, defended local law enforcement capabilities and said his office has been meeting regularly with city agencies to prepare for potential interventions by the National Guard.[aside postID=news_12061080 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/GettyImages-2220045842-2000x1334.jpg']“This scenario has become increasingly and terrifyingly more real for thousands of our constituents over the past six days,” said Supervisor Jackie Fielder, whose district includes the heavily Latino Mission District. “We’ve been bracing for this moment. The moment that people stop going to work, when anyone Black or brown can’t freely walk outside without the fear of Trump’s federal agents racially profiling and arresting them. The moment when parents stop sending their kids to school, become too afraid to go get groceries, or go to the doctor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta, who sued President Donald Trump earlier this year for deploying the National Guard in Los Angeles during anti-ICE protests, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060755/bonta-says-state-is-ready-vows-to-sue-in-minutes-if-trump-sends-troops-to-sf\">also vowed Tuesday to sue again\u003c/a> “in minutes” if Trump sends troops to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, Newsom ordered a National Guard unit to come to the Bay Area in order to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061030/california-national-guard-to-support-food-banks-as-federal-shutdown-drags-on\">support food banks across the state\u003c/a> as the federal government shutdown continues. The move potentially limits National Guard personnel available for Trump’s deployment threats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump has deployed the National Guard in several major Democratic cities this year, including Chicago and Portland, to follow and protect ICE agents during immigration enforcement. Details about any military following immigration agents to San Francisco have not been confirmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053489\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053489\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250128-SFImmigration-08-BL_qed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250128-SFImmigration-08-BL_qed-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250128-SFImmigration-08-BL_qed-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250128-SFImmigration-08-BL_qed-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group of elected and public safety officials, labor leaders, and community members fills the steps in front of City Hall in San Francisco on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025, during a press conference to reaffirm San Francisco’s commitment to being a Sanctuary City. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s words on Wednesday marked a more defiant tone for the mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Uncoordinated federal action undermines our work. Having the military posted in front of our schools, restaurants and office buildings will hinder our progress and let chaos get in the way of our recovery,” Lurie said. “It cuts off families from income, keeps children from the food and social services they desperately need, and stops people from reporting crime and taking their loved ones to the hospital. This doesn’t make our city safer — it terrorizes our communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie, standing beside Chiu in his address on Wednesday, underscored that the National Guard does not have the power to make arrests or police the city’s fentanyl crisis and that local law enforcement cannot aid federal immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But local police are also prohibited from interfering with federal agents, who can make arrests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor did invite greater cooperation with federal law enforcement agencies to arrest drug dealers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would welcome the opportunity to strengthen our partnerships with the FBI, DEA, ATF and U.S. Attorney to get drugs and drug dealers off our streets. That’s the work we need to keep doing,” Lurie said. “A federal deployment of the National Guard can’t do that. They cannot arrest drug dealers or shut down open-air drug markets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a quickly scheduled public address, Lurie criticized aggressive immigration enforcement raids and displays of force by the National Guard, and called on San Franciscans to peacefully protest. In keeping with his typical approach, he avoided calling out President Donald Trump or the Trump administration by name, instead referring to “this federal administration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These tactics are designed to incite backlash, chaos and violence, which are then used as an excuse to deploy military personnel. They are intentionally creating a dangerous situation in the name of public safety,” Lurie said. “And while we cannot control the federal government, here in San Francisco, we define who we are. We stick to our values.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051970\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051970\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/NationalGuardTrumpAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1337\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/NationalGuardTrumpAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/NationalGuardTrumpAP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/NationalGuardTrumpAP-1536x1027.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Federal agents stage at MacArthur Park on July 7, 2025, in Los Angeles, California. \u003ccite>(Damian Dovarganes/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Arrests outside of San Francisco’s immigration courthouse by ICE agents have increased this year. The mayor’s latest order calls on the city’s law enforcement agencies to “support San Francisco’s immigrant communities” and directs departments to “coordinate public safety and communication procedures in the event of enhanced federal immigration enforcement actions or federal deployment of the National Guard in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s response comes one day after City Attorney David Chiu said \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060875/san-francisco-prepares-necessary-legal-action-if-trump-deploys-national-guard\">his office is prepared to sue the Trump administration\u003c/a> if the president follows through on recent threats to send the National Guard to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, the Board of Supervisors pressed Lurie over his administration’s plans for keeping residents safe in the face of increased ICE raids. The mayor responded by saying that crime rates are dramatically lower this year than in previous years, defended local law enforcement capabilities and said his office has been meeting regularly with city agencies to prepare for potential interventions by the National Guard.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“This scenario has become increasingly and terrifyingly more real for thousands of our constituents over the past six days,” said Supervisor Jackie Fielder, whose district includes the heavily Latino Mission District. “We’ve been bracing for this moment. The moment that people stop going to work, when anyone Black or brown can’t freely walk outside without the fear of Trump’s federal agents racially profiling and arresting them. The moment when parents stop sending their kids to school, become too afraid to go get groceries, or go to the doctor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta, who sued President Donald Trump earlier this year for deploying the National Guard in Los Angeles during anti-ICE protests, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060755/bonta-says-state-is-ready-vows-to-sue-in-minutes-if-trump-sends-troops-to-sf\">also vowed Tuesday to sue again\u003c/a> “in minutes” if Trump sends troops to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, Newsom ordered a National Guard unit to come to the Bay Area in order to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061030/california-national-guard-to-support-food-banks-as-federal-shutdown-drags-on\">support food banks across the state\u003c/a> as the federal government shutdown continues. The move potentially limits National Guard personnel available for Trump’s deployment threats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump has deployed the National Guard in several major Democratic cities this year, including Chicago and Portland, to follow and protect ICE agents during immigration enforcement. Details about any military following immigration agents to San Francisco have not been confirmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053489\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053489\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250128-SFImmigration-08-BL_qed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250128-SFImmigration-08-BL_qed-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250128-SFImmigration-08-BL_qed-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250128-SFImmigration-08-BL_qed-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group of elected and public safety officials, labor leaders, and community members fills the steps in front of City Hall in San Francisco on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025, during a press conference to reaffirm San Francisco’s commitment to being a Sanctuary City. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s words on Wednesday marked a more defiant tone for the mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Uncoordinated federal action undermines our work. Having the military posted in front of our schools, restaurants and office buildings will hinder our progress and let chaos get in the way of our recovery,” Lurie said. “It cuts off families from income, keeps children from the food and social services they desperately need, and stops people from reporting crime and taking their loved ones to the hospital. This doesn’t make our city safer — it terrorizes our communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie, standing beside Chiu in his address on Wednesday, underscored that the National Guard does not have the power to make arrests or police the city’s fentanyl crisis and that local law enforcement cannot aid federal immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But local police are also prohibited from interfering with federal agents, who can make arrests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor did invite greater cooperation with federal law enforcement agencies to arrest drug dealers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would welcome the opportunity to strengthen our partnerships with the FBI, DEA, ATF and U.S. Attorney to get drugs and drug dealers off our streets. That’s the work we need to keep doing,” Lurie said. “A federal deployment of the National Guard can’t do that. They cannot arrest drug dealers or shut down open-air drug markets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Federal agents are set to arrive in Alameda this week as part of a major \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/immigration\">immigration\u003c/a> enforcement operation in the Bay Area, the U.S. Coast Guard confirmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda’s Coast Guard base will serve as a “place of operation” for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency, a spokesperson said, as President Donald Trump continues to crack down on undocumented immigration with expanded raids and surges of federal officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The support of [Department of Homeland Security] agencies continues the Coast Guard’s action to provide its unique authorities and capabilities as part of [the] government’s approach to control, secure and defend U.S. borders and maritime approaches by dismantling transnational criminal organizations, including drug and human smuggling operations, narcoterrorists and other hostile activity before they reach the border,” the spokesperson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County Supervisor Nikki Fortunato Bas told KQED that Trump is sending 60 to 100 Border Patrol agents, who are expected to begin arriving at the base as soon as Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elsewhere, expanded immigration enforcement has been followed by Trump sending \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058799/trumps-national-guard-moves-are-part-of-a-dangerous-plan-california-ag-warns\">National Guard troops\u003c/a> to cities such as Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Chicago and Portland, Oregon. Though he has cited alleged crime spikes and violent protests against immigration enforcement operations as justification, with little evidence to show for it, the deployments have all targeted Democrat-led cities and raised criticisms of abuse of power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For weeks, he has also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060033/trump-calls-out-san-francisco-as-next-target-for-national-guard-deployment\">threatened to expand his operation\u003c/a> to the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054634\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12054634\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GavinNewsomAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GavinNewsomAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GavinNewsomAP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GavinNewsomAP-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom at a press conference to discuss the measures to redraw the state’s Congressional districts and put new maps before voters in a special election, in Sacramento, California, on Aug. 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Rich Pedroncelli/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s the authoritarian playbook,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said during a press conference Wednesday. “For this administration, you send first masked men to the cities that you want to militarize … communities are torn asunder, it creates anxiety and stress, and that manifests into expressions of free speech. And then you use those expressions and those images as the justification to send the guard and suppress free speech, suppress free expression.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since May, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and CBP officials have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041473/unprecedented-ice-officers-operating-inside-bay-area-immigration-courts-lawyers-say\">escalating operations\u003c/a> throughout the Bay Area, moving to have undocumented immigrants’ asylum cases dismissed and arresting them outside of courtrooms and ICE field offices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 2,000 people were arrested in San Francisco’s “Area of Responsibility” between January and July 2025, \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2025/07/ice-data-immigrants-arrested-sf/\">according to \u003cem>Mission Local.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local rapid response networks said Wednesday that they were prepared to respond to heightened immigration enforcement in the region.[aside postID=news_12061106 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251007_Urban-Alchemy-Rally_-2_qed-1.jpg']Alameda County is activating emergency operations, according to Centro Legal de La Raza attorney Lourdes Martinez, and would be operating its Immigration Legal and Education Partnership hotline through the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Milli Atkinson, the director of the Immigrant Legal Defense Program with the Bar Association of San Francisco, said the city’s rapid response network was also aware of the potential for increased operations targeting San Francisco and is “prepared to respond from a place of power, not panic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice will also provide attorney activation for rapid response networks in the region, according to communications manager Alex Mensing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local political leaders were also quick to respond to the news Wednesday, including San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie, who offered his most forceful rejection of the Trump administration in a virtual press conference, saying he had \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061106/sf-mayor-directs-police-to-protect-immigrants-protestors-ahead-of-anticipated-raids\">signed an emergency directive\u003c/a> to build on the city’s preparation for possible federal troop deployment and was activating the Department of Emergency Management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He urged anyone who protests to do so peacefully.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, Mayor Barbara Lee said the city “remains a proud sanctuary city committed to standing with our immigrant families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will notify our community with as much information as possible about any federal deployment,” she said in a statement. “Real public safety comes from Oakland-based solutions, not federal military occupation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055135\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" 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The law allows the president to federalize state National Guard units and deploy federal troops to cities during times of heightened civil disorder or insurrection, giving him “unquestioned power,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody agrees you’re allowed to use that [the Insurrection Act] and there are no more court cases, there is no more anything. We’re trying to do it in a nicer manner, but we can always use the Insurrection Act,” he said on Fox News’ \u003ca href=\"https://www.foxnews.com/video/6383070885112\">\u003cem>Sunday Morning Futures\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051925\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12051925 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/GettyImages-2229572233-scaled-e1756854510343.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Donald Trump answers questions during a press conference in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on Aug. 11, 2025, in Washington, D.C. Trump announced he will use his authority to place the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department under federal control to assist in crime prevention in the nation’s capital, and that the National Guard will be deployed to D.C. \u003ccite>(Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city of Alameda said its police department would not be part of any federal immigration enforcement operations and would not enforce federal immigration laws or related civil warrants. It urged people choosing to protest in response to the deployment to “avoid direct interaction with federal law enforcement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Newsom echoed the sentiment on social media, saying, “President Trump and Stephen Miller’s authoritarian playbook is coming for another of our cities, and violence and vandalism are exactly what they’re looking for to invoke chaos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Help keep yourself and your communities safe. Remain peaceful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oakland and [Alameda] County have a long history of protests and social justice, and we know how to protest peacefully and make our voices heard,” Fortunato Bas said. “It’s going to be very important to have a united voice that we do not support any federal deployment in our cities. We do not support increased immigration raids. And we will protest them and do that peacefully.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/tychehendricks\">\u003cem>Tyche Hendricks\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> and \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/jlara\">\u003cem>Juan Carlos Lara\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County Supervisor Nikki Fortunato Bas told KQED that Trump is sending 60 to 100 Border Patrol agents, who are expected to begin arriving at the base as soon as Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elsewhere, expanded immigration enforcement has been followed by Trump sending \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058799/trumps-national-guard-moves-are-part-of-a-dangerous-plan-california-ag-warns\">National Guard troops\u003c/a> to cities such as Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Chicago and Portland, Oregon. Though he has cited alleged crime spikes and violent protests against immigration enforcement operations as justification, with little evidence to show for it, the deployments have all targeted Democrat-led cities and raised criticisms of abuse of power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For weeks, he has also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060033/trump-calls-out-san-francisco-as-next-target-for-national-guard-deployment\">threatened to expand his operation\u003c/a> to the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054634\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12054634\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GavinNewsomAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GavinNewsomAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GavinNewsomAP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GavinNewsomAP-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom at a press conference to discuss the measures to redraw the state’s Congressional districts and put new maps before voters in a special election, in Sacramento, California, on Aug. 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Rich Pedroncelli/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s the authoritarian playbook,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said during a press conference Wednesday. “For this administration, you send first masked men to the cities that you want to militarize … communities are torn asunder, it creates anxiety and stress, and that manifests into expressions of free speech. And then you use those expressions and those images as the justification to send the guard and suppress free speech, suppress free expression.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since May, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and CBP officials have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041473/unprecedented-ice-officers-operating-inside-bay-area-immigration-courts-lawyers-say\">escalating operations\u003c/a> throughout the Bay Area, moving to have undocumented immigrants’ asylum cases dismissed and arresting them outside of courtrooms and ICE field offices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 2,000 people were arrested in San Francisco’s “Area of Responsibility” between January and July 2025, \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2025/07/ice-data-immigrants-arrested-sf/\">according to \u003cem>Mission Local.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local rapid response networks said Wednesday that they were prepared to respond to heightened immigration enforcement in the region.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Alameda County is activating emergency operations, according to Centro Legal de La Raza attorney Lourdes Martinez, and would be operating its Immigration Legal and Education Partnership hotline through the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Milli Atkinson, the director of the Immigrant Legal Defense Program with the Bar Association of San Francisco, said the city’s rapid response network was also aware of the potential for increased operations targeting San Francisco and is “prepared to respond from a place of power, not panic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice will also provide attorney activation for rapid response networks in the region, according to communications manager Alex Mensing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local political leaders were also quick to respond to the news Wednesday, including San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie, who offered his most forceful rejection of the Trump administration in a virtual press 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href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060755/bonta-says-state-is-ready-vows-to-sue-in-minutes-if-trump-sends-troops-to-sf\">Attorney General Rob Bonta\u003c/a> have already vowed to take legal action immediately should troops be sent to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024429\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024429\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-05-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-05-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-05-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-05-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-05-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, 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The law allows the president to federalize state National Guard units and deploy federal troops to cities during times of heightened civil disorder or insurrection, giving him “unquestioned power,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody agrees you’re allowed to use that [the Insurrection Act] and there are no more court cases, there is no more anything. We’re trying to do it in a nicer manner, but we can always use the Insurrection Act,” he said on Fox News’ \u003ca href=\"https://www.foxnews.com/video/6383070885112\">\u003cem>Sunday Morning Futures\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051925\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12051925 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/GettyImages-2229572233-scaled-e1756854510343.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Donald Trump answers questions during a press conference in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on Aug. 11, 2025, in Washington, D.C. Trump announced he will use his authority to place the D.C. 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"content": "\u003cp>In a series of recent class action lawsuits, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/bay-area\">Bay Area\u003c/a> civil rights advocates are calling on the federal courts to halt what they call illegal Trump administration policies that are leading to the arrest of asylum seekers, victims of human trafficking and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12056762/bay-area-immigrant-advocates-sue-the-trump-administration-to-end-courthouse-arrests\">people attending immigration court hearings\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three lawsuits filed in federal courts in California in recent weeks are part of a larger legal pushback by advocacy groups across the country challenging the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement tactics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a time when Homeland Security officials tout arrests of “heinous” criminals they call the “worst of the worst,” the lawsuits put the focus on the ways U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has targeted vulnerable people such as domestic violence survivors and those who’ve fled persecution, said UC Davis Law Professor Kevin Johnson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are serious constitutional and statutory claims … challenging the efforts of the Trump administration to tighten the immigration enforcement machinery around non-citizens,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Can ICE rearrest immigrants who were already released?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunc.org/sites/default/files/%5B38%5D%202025%2010%2010%20AMENDED%20COMPLAINT%20and%20Amended%20Petition%20for%20Writ%20of%20Habeas.pdf\">case\u003c/a> before a federal judge in San José, Bay Area legal groups are seeking to block ICE from rearresting immigrants who had previously been granted conditional release, typically after border agents had determined they were not dangerous and not a flight risk, meaning they were expected to show up for their proceedings in immigration court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates say ICE has arrested and detained more than 100 immigrants in recent months as they attended mandatory court hearings and ICE supervision check-ins in Northern and Central California, even though they were abiding by the terms of their release and their circumstances had not changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12059882\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12059882\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251014-ANTIFAROUNDTABLEFOLO-19-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251014-ANTIFAROUNDTABLEFOLO-19-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251014-ANTIFAROUNDTABLEFOLO-19-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251014-ANTIFAROUNDTABLEFOLO-19-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People line up outside the ICE Field Office in downtown San Francisco on Oct. 14, 2025, for scheduled check-ins and immigration-related appointments. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bree Bernwanger, a senior staff attorney with the ACLU of Northern California, one of the groups filing the suit, said until things shifted abruptly in May, such rearrests were unheard of for ICE’s San Francisco field office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>ICE’s new policy allows them to make arrests and throw people back into detention without any justification,” she said. “[It] has disrupted people’s lives, it’s torn families apart, and it’s fundamentally unfair and unreasoned.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE officials did not respond to KQED’s request for comment, but the agency typically does not comment on pending litigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those arrested was Gabriela Vargas Plasencia, who was an engineering student in Peru before she fled death threats and came to the U.S. last year seeking asylum, according to her declaration to the court. She said she and her boyfriend were detained at the border, then released with instructions on attending immigration hearings.[aside postID=news_12060135 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/FamilySeparationGetty1.jpg']They settled in Oakland, submitted their asylum applications and enrolled in English classes. Once she was granted a work permit, Vargas Plasencia said she found two jobs, at Target and FedEx, working 50 hours a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at court on Sep. 4, she said, a government attorney asked the immigration judge to dismiss their cases. When the couple left the courtroom, Vargas Plasencia said agents in plain clothes grabbed them, took them to the basement and shackled them – all with no explanation. Hours later, they were driven to Bakersfield and locked up at the Mesa Verde Immigration Detention Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After lawyers intervened, a federal judge ordered Vargas Plasencia’s release. But in the meantime, she said, her car was towed and she was reprimanded for missing work. Her partner is still in custody. And she said she still has flashbacks to what she called “one of the most difficult and painful experiences I have ever endured.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Each time I have to check in with ICE, I feel anxiety and panic all over again,” Vargas Plasencia said in her declaration. “I have never committed any crime, in the United States or anywhere else. I only wish to continue my asylum case peacefully and to build a safe, stable life here; and for my partner to be released soon, as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bernwanger, the ACLU attorney, says rearresting people who are complying with the conditions of their release is an arbitrary exercise of power that violates the Constitution’s protection against unreasonable seizure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We should all be concerned,” she said. “Are we comfortable with a system in which people can just be grabbed off of the street and thrown into detention?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Can ICE arrest immigrants at immigration courthouses?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While the lawsuit involving Vargas Plasencia centers on the question of \u003cem>why\u003c/em> ICE can arrest someone, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12056762/bay-area-immigrant-advocates-sue-the-trump-administration-to-end-courthouse-arrests\">another recent case\u003c/a> deals with the question of \u003cem>where\u003c/em> those arrests can take place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That \u003ca href=\"https://lccrsf.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/32.pdf\">lawsuit\u003c/a>, filed last month by the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of San Francisco, along with the ACLU and others, takes on Trump administration policies \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/doclib/foia/policy/11072.4.pdf\">instructing ICE\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://perma.cc/S9CB-FP96\">the immigration courts\u003c/a> that arresting people at courthouses, formerly off limits, is now acceptable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12060987\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12060987\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/GettyImages-2216992312-scaled-e1761161311555.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A child, whose father was detained by ICE after a court hearing in the early morning, stands inside the N. Los Angeles Street Immigration Court on May 23, 2025, in Los Angeles, California. \u003ccite>(Carlin Stiehl/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Immigrant advocates say detaining people who are following the rules, and may, like Vargas Plasencia, have pending claims to asylum or other relief, will have a “chilling effect,” keeping them away from hearings and denying them access to justice. The administration has denied there’s any evidence for that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Conducting these arrests at courthouses, and conducting arrests of people without a justification when you’ve already released them, both of those policies are unlawful for different reasons,” said Bernwanger. “We are seeing ICE use them in coordination to absolutely terrorize people in our community who are just trying to do what the immigration system asks of them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same judge, P. Casey Pitts, who was appointed to the bench by President Joe Biden, will hear both Bay Area cases. Pitts has set hearings in both cases for Dec. 9.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Can ICE arrest survivors of trafficking and domestic violence?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, a class action \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/18gBGtsW_qv9e_Cdd71E9EDbpUWIymIyS/view\">case\u003c/a> filed in federal court in Los Angeles last week blasts ICE for arresting, and even deporting, immigrants applying for legal visas as survivors of human trafficking, domestic violence or other serious crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karen Hernandez is with the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law, which is representing the immigrants. She said, under the Violence Against Women Act and other laws, these immigrants have permission to be in the U.S while their visas are pending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055266\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055266\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-2221046205-scaled-e1761161380689.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1345\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A protester carries a sign reading “Immigrants Built America!” as anti-ICE demonstrators protest outside a federal building on June 19, 2025, in Los Angeles, California. \u003ccite>(Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“These are folks who have been granted legal protection by Congress,” she said. “The government is basically violating those legal protections.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the named plaintiffs in the case, identified as Camila B., has lived in Los Angeles for more than two decades. In 2021, she was attacked at a bus stop and beaten unconscious, according to the complaint. She cooperated with police, helping them to arrest her attacker, and applied for a \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/victims-of-criminal-activity-u-nonimmigrant-status\">U Visa\u003c/a>, which offers legal status to undocumented immigrants who’ve suffered serious crimes and assist law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of the long backlog for applications, the government granted Camila, 46, temporary protection from deportation to her native Mexico while she awaited her visa. But on July 1, as part of ICE’s immigration sweeps in Los Angeles, officers surrounded her tamale stand and arrested her. She was held in detention until July 30, when a judge ordered her released on bond.[aside postID=news_12060893 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/PeterOrtizKQED.jpg']Many of the affected immigrants are in the U.S. illegally. But, beginning with the 1994 passage of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/abused-spouses-children-and-parents\">Violence Against Women Act\u003c/a>, Congress repeatedly expanded protections for immigrant survivors of crime, encouraging them to seek safety and cooperate with law enforcement. Among the protections are \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/victims-of-human-trafficking-and-other-crimes\">special visas for victims of trafficking and other serious crimes\u003c/a> that eventually lead to a green card. Congress also provided work authorization, and for years, immigration authorities had policies not to deport people who were in the process of applying for the visas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit alleges the Trump administration’s reversal flies in the face of a federal law against “arbitrary and capricious” policy changes, and says the detentions violate people’s constitutionally guaranteed due process rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE and Homeland Security officials did not respond to KQED’s requests for comment about the case, but Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin has told other news outlets that every immigrant deported by ICE “has had due process and has a final order of removal — meaning they have no legal right to be in the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez, with the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law, said defending laws like the Violence Against Women Act is very personal to her. She said she was a 3-year-old when her own family moved to the U.S. from Mexico. But her childhood was marked by domestic violence, and it took years for her mother to get free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I grew up with a father who was very violent towards my mom,” she said. “And I remember talking to her about this lawsuit as we were working on it. And she just said, ‘If this would have been around when you and I were being harmed by your father, this would’ve protected us.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The extent to which the Trump administration is pushing the legal limits on immigration means more lawsuits can be expected, according to Johnson, the UC Davis law professor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This administration is just so dogged in its immigration enforcement efforts, we see something new and different almost every day,” he said. “It’s an extraordinary time. The human misery is off the charts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>They settled in Oakland, submitted their asylum applications and enrolled in English classes. Once she was granted a work permit, Vargas Plasencia said she found two jobs, at Target and FedEx, working 50 hours a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at court on Sep. 4, she said, a government attorney asked the immigration judge to dismiss their cases. When the couple left the courtroom, Vargas Plasencia said agents in plain clothes grabbed them, took them to the basement and shackled them – all with no explanation. Hours later, they were driven to Bakersfield and locked up at the Mesa Verde Immigration Detention Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After lawyers intervened, a federal judge ordered Vargas Plasencia’s release. But in the meantime, she said, her car was towed and she was reprimanded for missing work. Her partner is still in custody. And she said she still has flashbacks to what she called “one of the most difficult and painful experiences I have ever endured.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Each time I have to check in with ICE, I feel anxiety and panic all over again,” Vargas Plasencia said in her declaration. “I have never committed any crime, in the United States or anywhere else. I only wish to continue my asylum case peacefully and to build a safe, stable life here; and for my partner to be released soon, as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bernwanger, the ACLU attorney, says rearresting people who are complying with the conditions of their release is an arbitrary exercise of power that violates the Constitution’s protection against unreasonable seizure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We should all be concerned,” she said. “Are we comfortable with a system in which people can just be grabbed off of the street and thrown into detention?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Can ICE arrest immigrants at immigration courthouses?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While the lawsuit involving Vargas Plasencia centers on the question of \u003cem>why\u003c/em> ICE can arrest someone, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12056762/bay-area-immigrant-advocates-sue-the-trump-administration-to-end-courthouse-arrests\">another recent case\u003c/a> deals with the question of \u003cem>where\u003c/em> those arrests can take place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That \u003ca href=\"https://lccrsf.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/32.pdf\">lawsuit\u003c/a>, filed last month by the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of San Francisco, along with the ACLU and others, takes on Trump administration policies \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/doclib/foia/policy/11072.4.pdf\">instructing ICE\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://perma.cc/S9CB-FP96\">the immigration courts\u003c/a> that arresting people at courthouses, formerly off limits, is now acceptable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12060987\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12060987\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/GettyImages-2216992312-scaled-e1761161311555.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A child, whose father was detained by ICE after a court hearing in the early morning, stands inside the N. Los Angeles Street Immigration Court on May 23, 2025, in Los Angeles, California. \u003ccite>(Carlin Stiehl/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Immigrant advocates say detaining people who are following the rules, and may, like Vargas Plasencia, have pending claims to asylum or other relief, will have a “chilling effect,” keeping them away from hearings and denying them access to justice. The administration has denied there’s any evidence for that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Conducting these arrests at courthouses, and conducting arrests of people without a justification when you’ve already released them, both of those policies are unlawful for different reasons,” said Bernwanger. “We are seeing ICE use them in coordination to absolutely terrorize people in our community who are just trying to do what the immigration system asks of them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same judge, P. Casey Pitts, who was appointed to the bench by President Joe Biden, will hear both Bay Area cases. Pitts has set hearings in both cases for Dec. 9.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Can ICE arrest survivors of trafficking and domestic violence?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, a class action \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/18gBGtsW_qv9e_Cdd71E9EDbpUWIymIyS/view\">case\u003c/a> filed in federal court in Los Angeles last week blasts ICE for arresting, and even deporting, immigrants applying for legal visas as survivors of human trafficking, domestic violence or other serious crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karen Hernandez is with the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law, which is representing the immigrants. She said, under the Violence Against Women Act and other laws, these immigrants have permission to be in the U.S while their visas are pending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055266\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055266\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-2221046205-scaled-e1761161380689.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1345\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A protester carries a sign reading “Immigrants Built America!” as anti-ICE demonstrators protest outside a federal building on June 19, 2025, in Los Angeles, California. \u003ccite>(Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“These are folks who have been granted legal protection by Congress,” she said. “The government is basically violating those legal protections.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the named plaintiffs in the case, identified as Camila B., has lived in Los Angeles for more than two decades. 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San José’s Rules Committee will consider the city proposal on Wednesday to weigh whether to send it to the full City Council for discussion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, the county policy would also include a directive to identify all county property that could potentially be used for immigration enforcement and ensure that “wherever appropriate, physical barriers such as locked gates are used to limit access” to those sites and structures.[aside postID=news_12060875 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/NationalGuardGetty.jpg']County Supervisor Sylvia Arenas, who is leading the county effort, said the region’s elected officials are trying to use physical barriers and a patchwork of new laws to foil ongoing immigration enforcement tactics she described as “horrific.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a little bump in the road. But if that bump in the road distracts them and keeps some from coming to our community, I think that’s helpful. 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The council will consider the ordinance for a formal vote on Oct. 28.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He acknowledged it’s possible federal authorities may ignore these kinds of local ordinances, or that they may end up being challenged in court, but said it’s important to put them on the books nonetheless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058716\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058716\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/AP25278748416734-scaled-e1761091431392.jpg\" alt=\"Several people dressed in military gear and wearing gas masks stand in a line in the middle of the street.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Law enforcement officers block the road for a vehicle to enter a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility on Oct. 4, 2025, in Portland, Oregon. \u003ccite>(Jenny Kane/The Associated Press )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I took the lead in authoring this policy to make sure San José sets the standard that our city and county stands firmly on the side of our residents, and not with federal intimidation, because that’s what this is,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arenas said her late parents, who were immigrant farmworkers, often lived in fear of ICE knocking on their door, even when they were legal residents and later citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And it’s sad to say, but I’m relieved that they’re not here to see their worst fear,” Arenas said. “I’m relieved that they didn’t live to see the day Latinos were rounded up in such a savage and inhumane manner. 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