#ice-arrests

#ice-arrests

This morning, an attorney representing the Department of Homeland Security moved to dismiss the cases of all five asylum-seekers, at the court at 630 Sansome St. Mission Local has heard DHS lawyers in the courtroom on multiple occasions say that they move to dismiss asylum cases with the express goal of putting immigrants into expedited removal. Judge Patrick O'Brien did not immediately grant the government's motion.

Nneka Jackson, an attorney at the Law Offices of Nneka Jackson, recalled what she felt was an intimidation process as soon as she arrived at 26 Federal Plaza. You go into the courtroom, you see multiple agents with their face covers. You see guns, you see handcuffs It's a very intimidating presence, because there's so many of them, and they're literally waiting outside the courtroom for people to get their cases dismissed, Jackson said.

Mattresses on the floor, next to bunk beds, in meeting rooms and gymnasiums. No access to a bathroom or drinking water. Hourlong lines to buy food at the commissary or to make a phone call. These are some of the conditions described by lawyers and the people held at immigrant detention facilities around the country over the last few months. The number of detained immigrants surpassed a record 60,000 this month.

On Tuesday, Flores sat down with the Bay Area News Group and detailed the terrifying morning Monday when he narrowly escaped arrest himself and filmed his wife who has a blood condition passing out as ICE agents handcuffed her. She remained at Stanford Medical Center Tuesday with federal agents blocking her door. His nephew was taken to a federal detention center in Bakersfield, he said. I'm just completely stressed and drained about it, Flores said.

Speculating as to the reason why the number has declined, Lander reasoned that it could be the result of a temporary restraining order barring ICE from holding detainees in cramped and unhygienic conditions on the 10th floor of the Federal Plaza building. The conditions came to light through a video secretly recorded in July showing 10th-floor detainees within cramped conditions, with people sleeping on the ground in dirty, unwashed clothes. The video further showed the people located near a shared toilet with no privacy.

A 7-year-old Queens girl and her family were arrested by ICE while attending a court hearing at 26 Federal Plaza, marking the first known instance of this happening.

Petunia, a 2-year-old hairless French bulldog mix, won first prize at Sonoma's World's Ugliest Dog Contest and will appear on The Today Show soon.

The lawsuit seeks to reverse ICE's policies under the Administrative Procedure Act, a federal law that governs how agencies create and enforce regulations.

ICE arrested an SF Guatemalan man who showed clear signs of mental illness after his immigration hearing Thursday, and was muttering to himself throughout his hearing.

The San Francisco police department and sheriff's office must create a plan for handling calls related to suspected ICE arrests, following a unanimous Board of Supervisors resolution.