How An Overstretched Deportation System Has Become Even Less Fair
By Katrina Eiland Let’s say you came to this country as a 3-year-old with your parents and…
BOS Asked to Decide Fate of ORR Program for Detaining Refugee Children in Yolo
Back in April, the Probation Department staff presented an update to the Yolo County Board of Supervisors…
Despite New Order by President, Nightmare Continues for Immigrant Families
By Lorella Praili When President Trump signed his executive order on family separation on Wednesday, he proclaimed,…
Trump Backtracks on Family Separation
On Wednesday, President Trump appeared to cave to political pressure, and signed an executive order to end…
One Woman Who Knew Her Rights Forced Border Patrol off a Greyhound Bus
By Mitra Ebadolahi On June 7, Tiana Smalls, whose Facebook profile describes her as owner of Fire…
In Denial on the Family Separation Issue
By Jenny Samuels In an interview with the LA Times published early Monday morning, U.S. Customs and…
DOJ Spins on Family Separation
By Jenny Samuels In an interview on Tuesday morning with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt, Attorney General…
Bond Hearings in Suit by Bay Area Residents Stuck in Immigration Detention
(From Press Release) – A federal judge this week granted a preliminary injunction in a class action…
CBP Fails to Discredit Report on Abuse of Immigrant Kids
By Mitra Ebadolahi Last week, the ACLU’s Border Litigation Project and University of Chicago Law’s International Human…
Strong Sanctuary Policies in K-12 Schools
By Ana Nájera Mendoza Last week, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra provided all California public school leaders…
Greyhound Must Stop Giving Border Patrol Permission to Conduct Bus Raids
(From Press Release) – Greyhound buses, once a symbol of travel on America’s vast highways, have become…
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…
Immigrant Supporters March Outside Sac Hotel as AG Sessions Calls Out Cal ‘Open Border Radicals’
By Crescenzo Vellucci SACRAMENTO – Dozens of television news cameras, from CNN to local and regional broadcast…
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…
Immigrant Children Do Not Have the Right to an Attorney
By Ahilan Arulanantham Last week, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit issued a truly brutal decision,…
Guest Commentary: On Chain Migration
By Ann Block President Trump and the media have recently popularized the term “chain migration” and Trump…
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…
Federal Crackdown on Immigration Activists Threatens to Chill Free Speech
By Katie Egan Across the country, a growing number of immigrants’ rights advocates and outspoken members of…
Tony Serra to Represent Garcia Zarate on Federal Charges
(From Press Release) – Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, who was found not guilty in the death of…
