Subject: Illegal Immigration and Deportation

• Lady Liberty Would Like It

  August 20, 2008

• Funny Dinero

  May 2, 2007

• Bounty Hunted

  A man who pursued illegal immigrants for deportation found himself handcuffed by the feds and accused of impersonating a federal agent

  January 31, 2007

• A Twisted Tale

  January 24, 2007

• Immigrant Song

  It's not just the national anthem being sung in Spanish that's got anti-immigration folks riled up. Which side of the fence are you on?

  May 10, 2006

• The Asylum Trap

  Unscrupulous attorneys prey on immigrants seeking green cards with an expensive and fruitless legal scheme. Now 29 Mexicans have joined the disbarment case against one such lawyer.

  May 10, 2006

• The Identity Makers

  July 20, 2005

• The Minuteman's 15 Minutes of Fame (Minute 14.5)

  At the Arizona border, Infiltrator checks in with Americans who help the government look for illegal aliens

  June 22, 2005

• Wake Up, America!

  November 24, 2004

• Intended Consequences

  Our supervisors tilt at a lot of silly windmills. But the city's recognition of Mexican consular IDs may help change national immigration policy for the better.

  April 24, 2002

• Airing Old Secrets

  Flags tell the stories of Chinese paper sons and daughters

  February 2, 2000

• Torture of a Transsexual

  In a landmark case, Amanda DuValle, allegedly brutalized in Nicaragua because she is a transsexual, escaped deportation from the U.S. by invoking the U.N. Convention Against Torture. But if she won, why is she still in jail?

  July 7, 1999

• Safe Haven?

  Gay-bashing survivor applies for political asylum

  April 1, 1998

• Immigration Hide 'n' Seek

  October 22, 1997

• Custody by Ethnicity

  Some S.F. probation officers would rather wear the uniform of a Border Patrol guard

  September 18, 1996

• Give Me Your Healthy

  July 10, 1996

• Rounding Up the Usual Sospechosos

  November 15, 1995

• Letters

  May 17, 1995

• Does Pleading Guilty to a Drug Charge Injure Immigrant's 'Good Moral Character'? Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Says No.

  The San Francisco-based Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled this week that the government cannot use an illegal immigrant's expunged guilty plea to a simple drug offense as evidence of bad moral character in deportation proceedings. Jesus Romero came to the United States from Mexico when he was 10 years old in 1988. He pleaded guilty to a first-time drug possession offense a decade later, yet the judge deferred judgment against him pending his completion of a rehabilitation program. According t

  June 12, 2009

• San Francisco Federal Appeals Court: Companies Can't Be Forced To Hire Back Illegally Terminated Illegal Aliens

  'Jetson, you're fired! And since you're an illegal alien, I can't be forced to rehire you by the NLRB!'Employers were seemingly given broader license to fire illegal immigrants at will by a San Francisco federal appeals court, which ruled this week that a company cannot be forced to hire back fired employees who can't legally work in the United States.  In a 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling, an Arizona roofing company does not have to comply with a settlement reached 

  July 2, 2009

• Chronic City: There's Pot In Them Thar Hills! How To Make Marijuana Scary Again.

  But the authorities say 'not so fast...'​The latest mainstream media narrative in California's marijuana wars is a spruced-up version of an old favorite: "Mexican drug traffickers" are growing massive amounts of pot in state and national parks, and are despoiling the natural environment in doing so. Once again, we are given to believe that pot is somehow scary and bad -- if not the herb itself, then at least the people who grow it.As usual, there's a kernel of truth here, with lots of anti-mar

  July 28, 2009

• Activists say the SFPD is unfairly impounding and selling cars owned by illegal aliens

  August 19, 2009

• SF GOP Opposes Sanctuary Legislation in Letter-Writing Offensive

  Supervisor David Campos​If an angry Republican writes a letter in San Francisco, and no elected official cares enough to read it, did it ever really exist?San Francisco's local curiosity of a G.O.P. is currently seeking pen-pals in city government with a barrage of letters to Mayor Gavin Newsom and the Board of Supervisors decrying Supervisor David Campos' legislation on the treatment of illegal immigrants suspected of crimes. The letters come less than a week after the S.F. G.O.P. passed a re

  September 10, 2009

• SF Gov InAction: Pot Farming Illegal Immigrants Threaten to Bring DJs to City Hall Meetings!

    Monday, Oct. 5   10 a.m. - Public Safety Committee   On the whole, people are in favor of "Public Safety," so most of the time the Public Safety Committee is pretty uncontroversial. The chairman arches his eyebrows and asks the Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice "Why aren't you making us safer?" and nobody ever thinks "Hey, that's a really unfair question, you oppressive bastard!" Not today. Today, a full two-thirds of the agenda (okay, two items out of three) are l

  October 5, 2009

• Right-Wing Institute Gearing Up 'To Take Down San Francisco' Over Sanctuary City Policy

  Challengers to the city's proposed new sanctuary policy are already circling​You may remember the furor over the memo Mayor Gavin Newsom leaked from the city attorney stating the city would face a "likely legal challenge" if it changed the hard-line policy towards reporting undocumented juveniles charged with felonies. The "likely law suit" is no longer a nebulous threat. The Washington, D.C.-based Immigration Reform Law Institute told SF Weekly Thursday it is actively seeking a plaintiff for

  October 22, 2009

• ICE Confirms That Amuse Bouche Street-Food Vendor is Detained, Will Be Deported

  A spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) told SFoodie she could confirm that street-food vendor Murat Celebi-Ariner is currently in detention, and will be deported. Citing security concerns, spokeswoman Lori Haley would not say where Celebi-Ariner -- proprietor of Amuse Bouche -- is being held, or when he will be deported, presumably to France. The fact that Celebi-Ariner was in the U.S. under the Visa Waiver Program meant that his

  October 29, 2009

• ICE Denies Amuse Bouche Vendor's Deferral Request -- He'll Be Deported in the Next Week or Two

  Photo via SFistFrench national Murat Celebi-Ariner will be deported on the next available flight.​The attorney for Murat Celebi-Ariner said his client's Deferral of Action request was denied late last night, meaning the street-food vendor will be deported to France. Randall Caudle said he received confirmation a few hours ago from the Immigration Customs and Enforcement agency (ICE) that Celebi-Ariner would be removed to France as soon as a contracted flight becomes available, most likely

  November 4, 2009

• Sanctuary Sellout

  November 18, 2009