The latest firings and retirements are part of a nationwide push by the Department of Justice to remove judges deemed too generous to asylum seekers, while shrinking courts push already backlogged cas...

The lawsuits, brought by Bay Area civil rights groups, challenge the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement tactics.

Across the Bay Area, faith communities are creating spaces where immigrants can reclaim dignity and find solace amid escalating ICE enforcement, including a recent Oakland candlelight service that dre...

KQED's Senior Immigration Editor Tyche Hendricks breaks down what we know (and don't know) about the deployment of federal agents in the Bay Area.

We talk with two local immigration judges who have been terminated by the Trump administration about the changes they have seen in our immigration system and what it means for the rule of law in our c...

The suit also calls on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to stop detaining people for days in temporary holding rooms without beds and proper hygiene.

Google handed over Gmail account information to ICE before notifying the student or giving him an opportunity to challenge the subpoena.

Two Bay Area congressmen who opposed the plans to build an immigration jail at Travis Air Force Base said the Department of Defense confirmed the proposal is off the table for now.

The Mojave Desert facility reopened by the Trump administration has begun housing ICE detainees, but lacks at least one key city permit.

As the Trump administration ramps up immigration arrests, flooding the streets of Los Angeles with masked agents, it’s stripping half a million people of protections that allowed them to enter the cou...

Immigration agents pulled over a van in Marion County on Thursday morning, busted through the driver’s window and detained four farmworkers on the way to their jobs at a blueberry farm, according to a...

The president’s travel ban blocks citizens from Iran, Afghanistan, Haiti, Eritrea and Yemen from entering the U.S., among others.

The Trump Administration has turned the remaining sliver of hope for people fleeing torture into what experts fear is a fast track to deportation. And it’s trying to keep it a secret.

Attorneys have seen US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in the halls and waiting rooms of several California courthouses. Advocates reported the arrest of one man at a Concord court.

An uneasy, fearful silence reigns in Fremont’s Afghan community, one of the nation's largest. The Trump administration is canceling Temporary Protected Status for Afghans, rolling up the welcome mat f...

Khalil’s San Francisco-based lawyer believes the outcome of the case could serve as a litmus test for dissent in the second Trump era.

California and a coalition of 19 other Democratic states filed two lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s latest threat to withhold billions in transportation and security funds.

Panic is spreading through the Bay Area Afghan community... as the Trump administration terminates Temporary Protected Status for about 12-thousand Afghans nationwide. KQED’s Senior Immigration Editor...

S.F.’s planning director Rich Hillis stepping down after five years and an ambitious rezoning process

In a letter this week to U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, two Bay Area Democrats — who represent the area that includes Travis Air Force Base — said they were “gravely concerned” over reports o...

In a letter this week to U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, two Bay Area Democrats — who represent the area that includes Travis Air Force Base — said they were “gravely concerned” over reports o...

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Lawsuits filed by two international students at California colleges come as hundreds across the country are effectively stripped of the ability to keep studying in the U.S.

San Francisco’s Favorite Evening of Talks and Performances, Night of Ideas, is Back In-Person for the 2025 Edition!

More than a thousand people gathered at Powder House Square near the Tufts University campus Wednesday evening to protest the arrest and possible deportation of graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk.

On October 28, 2015, Jeanne Carstensen was reporting as a foreign correspondent covering the Syrian refugee crisis in Europe when she witnessed a devastating boat accident. After nearly a decade of re...

California lawmakers and civil rights advocates are preparing for President Trump to impose a new “travel ban” based on foreign nationals’ countries of origin.

During his campaign for president last year, Donald Trump consistently disavowed Project 2025, the right wing blueprint to remake the U.S. government. But since taking office, he’s been aggressively i...

The Trump administration is reportedly considering revoking humanitarian parole for Ukrainians as soon as April. “Anxiety levels are off the charts,” one immigration lawyer said.