When Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents raided a San Francisco home earlier this month, they arrested all of the adults and may have left a 15-year-old child to fend for herself. Now, San Francisco officials are expressing outrage over the situation.
England, which has its own immigration controversies, also has immigration raids, though not on the [...]
Until recently, Richmond, Ca., leaders, including Mayor Gayle McLaughlin, were considering a program to provide illegal immigrants with municipal identification cards. But the Contra Costa County Municipal ID Task Force decided to shelve the proposal, after San Francisco backed down from its plan amid controversy.
San Francisco has lately been under fire for its lax attitude [...]
The Republican National Convention is taking place in St. Paul, Minn., this week, and the party has released the official Republican platform (PDF). Though party platforms don’t usually amount to much in the way of legislation, they do indicate where the majority of the party stands on issues. This year’s platform committee struggled to reach [...]
A July protest against San Francisco’s sanctuary policy, led by the Minutemen. (AP Photo)
When Tony Bologna and his sons Michael and Matthew were murdered in June by an illegal Salvadoran immigrant, the victims’ family blamed San Francisco. The alleged killer, Edwin Ramos, had been arrested as a teenager, but officials did not report him to [...]
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