Election News: Gary Sandy In, Rexroad Out; Prieto Makes Immigration Statement
It has been a tumultuous week in the Yolo County supervisor’s race. Two days before the deadline,…
ICE Cruelty Knows No Bounds
By Stacy Sullivan In an act of senseless cruelty, U.S. immigration authorities separated a Congolese mother and…
ICE is Cracking Down on Immigrants in Northern California
Media accounts have noted frequent ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) raids in what some are describing as…
Congress Needs To Hold ICE Accountable for Abuses
By Brian Tashman When Karah de Oliveira and her husband, Fabiano, showed up at the U.S. Citizenship…
DHS’ Threat to Prosecute Officials of Sanctuary Cities Is Unconstitutional
By Cody Sofsy In testimony before Congress yesterday, Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen confirmed that her…
ICE Threatens to Arrest Local Politicians in Sanctuary Cities
Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Thomas Homan, who has been appointed to become the permanent…
Court Rules ICE Can’t Detain Immigrant Teens without Due Process
By Stephen Kang After five months locked up in detention, F.E.* returned home to Brentwood, New York….
Davis ICE Raid on Cambodian Refugee Leaves Immigration Status Uncertain
It has been a rough few weeks for Chen Kong-Wick who learned on October 19 that her…
California Legislature Approves Bill to Limit State and Local Role in Deportations
The California Values Act will disentangle state and local law enforcement from the federal government’s deportation machine…
ICE Abusing Those Fighting Trump’s Deportation Machine
By Rebecca Wallace, Sara Neel, and Arash Jahanian It was an evening in late July when an…
Clergy, Others Occupy Governor’s Office Tuesday; Pray for Brown to Sign ‘Sanctuary State’ Measure
Special to the Davis Vanguard Nearly two dozen people occupied the governor’s outer office here at the…
ACLU Suit Claims Teens Illegally Detained on Unfounded Gang Allegations and Sent to Yolo to Be Deported
Six months after revelations about the detention of a young Honduran boy rocked Yolo County, a lawsuit…
ACLU Challenges Trump Administration’s Jailing of Immigrant Teens
Class Action Suit Charges that Efforts to Detain and Deport Children are Based on Unfounded Gang Allegations…
ACLU Sues Madera County for Violating Open Meetings Law
County Secretly Made Invalid Changes, Entangling County Jail Operations with Federal Deportation Machine (From Press Release) –…
AG Says Trump’s Threat to Defund Sanctuary Jurisdictions Jeopardizes Safety of California Communities
Attorney General Becerra Leads Friend-of-Court Brief in Support of San Francisco, Santa Clara and Richmond Challenge to…
ACLU of California Issues Texas Travel Advisory
Traveling to Texas May Result in Violation of Constitutional Rights (From Press Release) – The American Civil…
ICE – Fair and Effective?
By Lisette Diaz We were all afraid of the knocks on our door, especially if it happened…
May Day March in Sacramento Will Protest ICE Raids and More
May Day has traditionally, as International Workers’ Day, been a day of protest, and that will be…
California’s Values
by William Kelly SB 54 has been called “the sanctuary state bill,” the “freeze out ICE [Immigration…
Monday Morning Thoughts: Report Finds Immigration Arrests Up, Reporting of Crime Down
When newly-elected President Donald Trump threatened crackdowns and mass deportations, supporters suggested that the new actions would…