The Sacramento Bee’s reporting on the deportation of a Sacramento mother in less than 24 hours reveals that the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement strategy is reaching far beyond the caricature often presented by its defenders, targeting law-abiding immigrants who followed the rules and relied on government assurances.
Abdulkadir Bulgaz, a Turkish immigrant, has filed a lawsuit against the City of San Diego and a police officer for a racially motivated traffic stop and verbal harassment, seeking justice and accountability for the incident.
A 71-year-old woman has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office after being injured by a former deputy, Matthew Gurich, who was fired and charged with unlawful assault by a public officer, and is seeking departmental reforms and accountability for the other deputies who failed to intervene.
Fifteen Sacramento police officers have doubled their annual salaries through overtime pay, raising concerns as the city faces a $44 million budget deficit.
An 11-year-old boy appeared in Sacramento Immigration Court with his grandmother, who could not afford a lawyer and were waitlisted by a church group overwhelmed with similar immigration cases, and was reassured by Judge Loreto Geisse that the government cannot remove him until she tells them to, while Assemblymember Mia Bonta introduced Assembly Bill 1261 to provide legal representation for all unaccompanied immigrant children in the state.
William J. Drummond is a renowned journalist who has interviewed Mother Teresa and Martin Luther King, and has been working for the Los Angeles Times since 1976, covering the Student Radical Movement and the Chicano Movement.
Crystal Sanchez, Western Regional Director for the National Union of the Homeless, has revealed that the homelessness crisis in Sacramento is much worse than official counts suggest, with 50,000+ people experiencing homelessness, and that the city’s response is compounding the harm rather than solving it.
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