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U.S. Department of Homeland Security

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2012

    Cindy Chang, Sunday School Teacher, Released After Three-Week Detention at Arizona Immigration Checkpoint

    ​Cindy Chang was driving from San Jose to Phoenix for a friend's wedding early this month when she was stopped at an immigration checkpoint in Eloy, Ariz. These structures are common this close to the border. Chang, a 26-year old Sunday school teacher who has lived in the Bay Area since her f ... More >>

  • News

    June 22, 2011

    H1-B Visa Program Creates Caste System for Silicon Valley

    ​Cindy Chang was driving from San Jose to Phoenix for a friend's wedding early this month when she was stopped at an immigration checkpoint in Eloy, Ariz. These structures are common this close to the border. Chang, a 26-year old Sunday school teacher who has lived in the Bay Area since her f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 13, 2011

    Anthony Makk, Gay Australian, to Stay in Country -- For Now

    Anthony Makk, left, can stay for now​Anthony Makk, the gay San Franciscan who was in jeopardy of being deported back to his native Australia today, will be staying here a little longer. His attorneys are filing a spouse visa petition in a New York immigration court, which will buy Makk a little ex ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2011

    Bradford Wells, Gay San Franciscan, Fighting Against Husband's Deportation, Taken To Hospital

    Anthony Makk, left, with husband Bradford Wells​Update, 2:30 p.m.: Steve Ralls from Immigration Equality e-mailed SF Weekly to say that Bradford Wells did not have a heart attack. "I just received an update, and Bradford is back home from the hospital, and resting.  He did not have a heart a ... More >>

  • News

    March 16, 2011

    U-Visa: Illegal Immigrants Become Legal Residents Via Crime Victimization

    Anthony Makk, left, with husband Bradford Wells​Update, 2:30 p.m.: Steve Ralls from Immigration Equality e-mailed SF Weekly to say that Bradford Wells did not have a heart attack. "I just received an update, and Bradford is back home from the hospital, and resting.  He did not have a heart a ... More >>

  • News

    December 15, 2010

    The Feds Bury Border Patrol Abuses of Immigrants, But What's Been Unearthed Reveals a Culture of Cruelty

    Anthony Makk, left, with husband Bradford Wells​Update, 2:30 p.m.: Steve Ralls from Immigration Equality e-mailed SF Weekly to say that Bradford Wells did not have a heart attack. "I just received an update, and Bradford is back home from the hospital, and resting.  He did not have a heart a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 9, 2010

    S.F. Man Threatens to 'Sell' Woman. SoCal Man Does Worse.

    ​We've heard stories before of people reporting their exes to immigration officials, but a couple of psycho tales in the news today one-upped that revenge tactic.In San Francisco, a person reported to police that a 25-year-old female Hispanic friend sent out a desperate text message that she was b ... More >>

  • News

    July 28, 2010

    ILLEGAL from Terry Greene Sterling

    Read a penetrating chapter from former Phoenix New Times investigative reporter Terry Greene Sterling's book: ILLEGAL: Life and Death in Arizona's Immigration War Zone

  • News

    June 2, 2010

    Badlands: From Ground Zero of the Immigration Crisis Along the Mexican Border

    Read a penetrating chapter from former Phoenix New Times investigative reporter Terry Greene Sterling's book: ILLEGAL: Life and Death in Arizona's Immigration War Zone

  • News

    April 21, 2010

    The Many Faces of Dr. Syed

    A phony dermatologist misdiagnosed patients and stuck them with needles. It took four years for the medical board to figure it out.

  • News

    August 19, 2009

    SFPD polygraph expert's controversial views

    A phony dermatologist misdiagnosed patients and stuck them with needles. It took four years for the medical board to figure it out.

  • News

    November 26, 2008

    Janet Napolitano’s Sorry Service in Arizona Makes Her a Terrible Choice for Homeland Security Secretary

    A phony dermatologist misdiagnosed patients and stuck them with needles. It took four years for the medical board to figure it out.

  • News

    November 26, 2008

    Border Crossers

    Long rap sheet? No problem. Transgender Latina hookers in S.F. are successfully fighting deportation by asking for asylum.

  • News

    January 31, 2007

    Bounty Hunted

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

  • Music

    January 24, 2007

    A Twisted Tale

    A well-known erotic performer is now an international fugitive. A look into who’s getting caught up in the identity theft crackdown.

  • News

    November 15, 2006

    Echoes of the Revolution

    The struggle between Bay Area law enforcement and the Black Panthers is still going on after 35 years

  • News

    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.

  • News

    November 23, 2005

    Bait and Snitch

    Lying under oath, threatening witnesses, revealing the names of federal agents -- it's just another day on the job for one of the DEA's paid drug informants

  • News

    April 28, 2004

    Beaming in on The Cure

    A new type of radiation therapy, developed by a Bay Area company, shows astonishing promise in fighting cancer

  • News

    March 3, 2004

    Obsessive Pursuit

    Years after her brother was murdered in Chile's "dirty war," a diminutive former professor went after the killer

  • News

    May 28, 2003

    Big Doctor Is Watching

    As of April 14, the national security police can monitor your medical records without your knowledge. So can the local police.

  • News

    March 27, 2002

    Staying Alive

    An AIDS vaccine should be our government's highest priority. So why is one researcher forced to seek funding from the War on Terrorism?

  • News

    February 20, 2002

    Divided Loyalties

    Forced to choose between native ties and the American Dream, Filipinos like S.F. court clerk Rene Pascual are fighting for dual citizenship

  • News

    March 15, 2000

    Spiritual CULTivation

    In China, Falun Gong practitioners are beaten and persecuted, so the U.S. is granting them asylum. But is this movement as harmless as it seems?

  • News

    February 23, 2000

    Off the Books

    A school district administrator's extracurricular foreign recruiting prompts investigations in two countries

  • News

    January 19, 2000

    Freedom for a Transsexual

    A refugee from torture is finally let out of jail

  • News

    July 7, 1999

    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?

  • News

    November 4, 1998

    Tales of the Country

    How Tokyo Rose, "Machine Gun" Kelly, and Amelia Earhart are endangered by money-saving moves at the National Archives in San Bruno

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