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U.S. Department of Homeland Security

  • Blogs

    November 8, 2012

    S.F. Group Sues Over Predator Drone Privacy Rules

    Do thoughts of miniature helicopters hovering and peeking into your bedroom keep you up at night? Maybe you are worried about Uncle Sam seeing what you do when nobody is watching? Well, so is the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a San Francisco-based digital civil liberties group that filed a lawsui ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 13, 2012

    Hyatt Hotels Illegally Enrolled in E-Verify to Track Undocumented Workers, Labor Agency Claims

    San Francisco's Hyatt Hotels and the labor unions are once again bickering about best practices. Back in July, if you'll remember, hotel workers picketed outside the Grand Hyatt Union Square, protesting difficult working conditions and calling for a boycott of the chain. This time, the dispute is ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2012

    Nancy Pelosi, Fellow Dems Say Immigration Policy Should Recognize LGBT Couples

    Undocumented immigrants in same-sex marriages are perhaps the most polarizing slice of the American populace right now (slightly ahead of NBC's gymnastics commentators).This week, Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi and scores of other Democrats signed a letter seeking to protect LGBT couples, urging the Oba ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 27, 2012

    San Francisco Immigration Community to Protest Deportation of Alleged Rape Victim

    We've all missed a deadline, but how many of those missed appointments meant the difference between a life of refuge and a life of fear? That's what it has meant to Blanca Medina, an El Salvadorian woman currently classified as a fugitive after she missed her immigration court hearing. Medina had a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 1, 2012

    New Immigration Reforms Basically Cite Months-Old Training Memos

    The U.S. Immigration and Custom's Enforcement agency has taken much criticism for its "Secure Communities" initiative, where participating local police departments give immigration officials access to the fingerprints of people brought into its jails. In September, for instance, a Department of Ho ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2012

    S.F. Civil Liberties Group Wants Feds to Stop Being So Secretive about Drones

    ​The Electronic Frontier Foundation is suing the U.S. Department of Transportation, claiming that the feds are withholding important details about drones -- the unmanned aircraft used in the military --  and under what circumstances public and private entities be allowed to use them. Accordin ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 11, 2012

    Technological Difficulty

    ​The Electronic Frontier Foundation is suing the U.S. Department of Transportation, claiming that the feds are withholding important details about drones -- the unmanned aircraft used in the military --  and under what circumstances public and private entities be allowed to use them. Accordin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 20, 2011

    The RIAA Responds Lamely to Claims of Piracy Advocates

    ​TorrentFreak, a news site that basically supports illicit downloading, last week used a half-assed ISP-lookup service to conclude that employees of both the Recording Industry Association of America and the Department of Homeland Security had downloaded illicit copies of various copyrighted works ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 20, 2011

    The Recording Industry Makes Itself Look Stupid Yet Again While Battling Piracy

    ​Over at Dan Mitchell's Digital Tremors column on our news blog, the Snitch, there's an interesting debate brewing over the recording industry's response to some piracy advocates' claims that its employees downloaded music and other files illegally. Mitchell's take is that while disputing thes ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2011

    Minhaz Kahn, DREAM Act Eligible Student, Spared Deportation -- For Now

    No deportation for Minhaz Kahn. But others might not be so lucky. ​A DREAM-Act-eligible recent college grad won reprieve on his deportation case earlier this week, yet the celebration ends there. San Francisco-based immigration officials warned attorneys that not all DREAM Act-eligible immigrants ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2011

    Minhaz Kahn, DREAM Act-Eligible Neuroscience Grad, Set For Deportation

    Minhaz Kahn is facing deportation on November 18. ​Federal immigration officials in San Francisco are ignoring a June memo from immigration authorities that deprioritizes deportation immigrants who came into the country as kids. In the most recent case, it's affecting a UC-Riverside neuroscie ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 12, 2011

    Anonymous Plans Another Protest Today While Feds Launch Investigation of Hacking Group

    Until you starting fucking with our commutes​Always a mark of another Monday: General crankiness, an extra cup of coffee, and oh, a BART protest.The group responsible for the ongoing demonstrations, which have shutdown stations and frustrated commuters, is planning another service disruption tonig ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2011

    Feds Close Deportation Case Against Same-Sex Spouse of Gay American

    Henry Velandia, right, and his American spouse, Josh Vandiver​The immigration woes of same-sex couples has finally reached a tipping point: The Immigration Court in Newark, New Jersey, has closed the deportation case against the foreign spouse of a gay American this week. The couple's attorney, La ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 27, 2011

    Black Market Giants World Series Gear to Be Donated to Haitians

    Giants win goes global. ​Remember when the feds were vigorously seizing knock-off Giants World Series clothing from black-market vendors around AT&T Park last year? Well, it turns out that all those clothes won't just rot in federal custody. In one of those unexpected turns in a globalized wor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2011

    Federal Fingerprinting Program May Still ID Illegal Immigrant Teens Shielded By City

    Looking for the right fingerprints​This week Mayor Ed Lee announced the city would stop alerting federal immigration officials about illegal immigrant youth they book into juvenile hall on felony charges -- if the teens have family in the Bay Area.Even with this new policy, immigration authorities ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 25, 2011

    California Leads The Nation in Imprisoning Criminal Immigrants

    10 percent of California's inmates are non-citizens.​It's not a winning spot to brag about, but the Golden State is No.1 when it comes to incarcerating criminal immigrants. In fact, California is the only state to break the 100,000 mark. What's worse -- the state is shouldering the majority of the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2011

    Judge Says TSA Doesn't Have to Turn Over Body Scan Images to Civil Liberties Group

    TSA Doesn't Want to Reveal What It's Revealing​As it turns out, when Big Brother is watching he doesn't have to reveal what he sees.In the latest chapter of TSA v. The rest of America, a federal judge ruled that the Transportation Security Administration doesn't have to turn over the 2,000 images ... More >>

  • Articles

    December 22, 2010

    Return to Sender

    TSA Doesn't Want to Reveal What It's Revealing​As it turns out, when Big Brother is watching he doesn't have to reveal what he sees.In the latest chapter of TSA v. The rest of America, a federal judge ruled that the Transportation Security Administration doesn't have to turn over the 2,000 images ... More >>

  • News

    December 22, 2010

    How Would Immigration Reform Look if the Feds Got Off Their Duffs?

    TSA Doesn't Want to Reveal What It's Revealing​As it turns out, when Big Brother is watching he doesn't have to reveal what he sees.In the latest chapter of TSA v. The rest of America, a federal judge ruled that the Transportation Security Administration doesn't have to turn over the 2,000 images ... More >>

  • News

    December 1, 2010

    FAIR-y Tales

    TSA Doesn't Want to Reveal What It's Revealing​As it turns out, when Big Brother is watching he doesn't have to reveal what he sees.In the latest chapter of TSA v. The rest of America, a federal judge ruled that the Transportation Security Administration doesn't have to turn over the 2,000 images ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2010

    A Reminder: You Will Not Be Seeing Einstürzende Neubauten in S.F. This Weekend

    Perhaps you would be wary of issuing visas to these youngsters as well​Bad news for fans of the sound of collapsing new buildings: West Berlin experimental noise stalwart Einstürzende Neubauten (which is German for "collapsing new buildings") has had to cancel its 30th anniversary tour of th ... More >>

  • News

    September 8, 2010

    Travel writer Edward Hasbrouck sues Homeland Security over travel data

    Perhaps you would be wary of issuing visas to these youngsters as well​Bad news for fans of the sound of collapsing new buildings: West Berlin experimental noise stalwart Einstürzende Neubauten (which is German for "collapsing new buildings") has had to cancel its 30th anniversary tour of th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 30, 2010

    Department of Homeland Security Sued Over Secret Traveller Files

    Matt SmithWe'll collect all this personal information, y'see. And then we'll make a giant database...​San Francisco travel writer Edward Hasbrouck has sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security over what he says is the agency's refusal to give a complete accounting of secret files detailing his ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2010

    'Secure Communities' Deporting Low-Level Criminals and Innocents, Opponents Say

    Jaywalking? That'll get you deported, hombre​The majority of illegal immigrants deported by a controversial federal program known as Secure Communities are not the "high threat" criminal immigrants the Feds claimed the program would ensnare, according to statistics released today by civil rights o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2010

    Tom Ammiano Mangles Profane Spanish at Unique Immigration Rally (PICS)

    Tom, what are you saying?​As promised, San Franciscans came out against Arizona's controversial SB 1070 immigration law today, in a protest also aimed at the federal identification program known as Secure Communities ("S-COMM for short"). A picturesque group positioned in front of the Federal Buil ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2010

    Immigration Activists Set to Rally Downtown Tomorrow

    Jerry, we have a complaint! ​Buoyed by a federal judge's decision to block the "papers please" components of the Arizona immigration law that goes into effect tomorrow, San Francisco activists and Assemblyman Tom Ammiano are now turning their wrath on California Attorney General Jerry Brown. At a ... More >>

  • News

    July 14, 2010

    Facial Profiling

    Will face-recognition technology get an accused killer off the hook?

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2010

    'Secure Communities' Program Nails 29 Illegal Immigrants In S.F. Jail

    After all, now we have finger prints...​ICE touts success stories of new program -- but San Francisco sheriff's department would have reported "criminal aliens" anyways under old sanctuary city policyIn the first nine days after the San Francisco Sheriff's Department begrudgingly implemented the f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2010

    Will Feds' Move Gut S.F. Sanctuary City Policy?

    ​An overarching federally mandated program will take decisions about who to report -- or not report -- to immigration authorities out of local officials' hands, the Chronicle reports. In June, San Francisco's County Jail will begin using the Secure Communities initiative -- a program the Departmen ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2010

    Janitors Descend From Skyscrapers to Protest Immigration Raids

    ​At 9 p.m. on Monday night, long after the white-collar workers that make the Financial District hum had gone home, the janitors started to trickle out of the skyscrapers into the dark plaza in front of 101 California.It was like sighting a secret society, a gathering of workers whose job lends on ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 29, 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 C ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 17, 2009

    Asylum for Battered Women -- a Question Raised by a San Francisco Case a Decade Ago -- Gets Obama Administration as an Advocate

    The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has paved the way for battered women from countries where such abuse is widely accepted to be granted asylum in the United States. The DHS declared its opinion in a court filing of an asylum case of a Mexican woman only referred as L.R., who was denied by a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 29, 2008

    Snapshot: Guerilla Postering

    The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has paved the way for battered women from countries where such abuse is widely accepted to be granted asylum in the United States. The DHS declared its opinion in a court filing of an asylum case of a Mexican woman only referred as L.R., who was denied by a ... More >>

  • News

    May 14, 2008

    For Whom the Bridge Tolls

    Politicians want pork to pay for Golden Gate increases, but the money should be paid by drivers instead.

  • Film

    February 13, 2008

    The Media Is a Mess Age in George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead

    Politicians want pork to pay for Golden Gate increases, but the money should be paid by drivers instead.

  • Calendar

    January 30, 2008

    Pants on Fire

    Politicians want pork to pay for Golden Gate increases, but the money should be paid by drivers instead.

  • Blogs

    November 21, 2007

    Oil Spill Raises Bay Terrorism Issues: Pelosi Spills The Beans

    Politicians want pork to pay for Golden Gate increases, but the money should be paid by drivers instead.

  • Calendar

    September 12, 2007

    Women Call the Shots

    Politicians want pork to pay for Golden Gate increases, but the money should be paid by drivers instead.

  • Blogs

    July 2, 2007

    Home of the Broke -- USCIS announces fee hike

    Politicians want pork to pay for Golden Gate increases, but the money should be paid by drivers instead.

  • Home Entertainment

    September 6, 2006

    Grateful Dead

    Dead Rising's zombies will eat your brain -- and your free time.

  • News

    August 2, 2006

    The Cutting Edge

    Dead Rising's zombies will eat your brain -- and your free time.

  • News

    September 21, 2005

    FEMA -- a Four-Letter Word?

    The only quiz in the world that will tell you if you're an apologist for the Bush administration's Hurricane Katrina response

  • News

    July 20, 2005

    The Identity Makers

    In the age of terror, are the people who make fake identification documents for the Hispanic community noble public servants -- or national security risks?

  • News

    October 6, 2004

    Letters to the Editor

    Week of Wednesday, October 6, 2004

  • News

    September 1, 2004

    Homeland Sinecurity

    A chat with the man who does nothing, all day long, for the Department of Homeland Security

  • News

    January 21, 2004

    Surprise!

    If you think S.F. is ready for a terrorist attack – even two years-plus after 9/11 – think again

  • News

    October 22, 2003

    You preach/We laugh

    In which we come up with our own (slightly cynical) version of Muni's new ad campaign

  • Culture

    July 16, 2003

    Veronique of the Mounties

    Our local source for protest theater offers a weird exercise in moral equivalence

  • News

    September 11, 2002

    The New Defenders

    An explosion of federal funding has Bay Area researchers at the forefront of America's counter-terrorism program. Will the money make us safer - or just make science a military secret?

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