By TATIANA SANCHEZ | tsanchez@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group PUBLISHED: September 5, 2018 at 1:24 pm | UPDATED: September 6, 2018 at 6:15 am SAN JOSE — A federal judge blasted the Trump administration’s transfer of 10 detainees from a Contra Costa County ICE detention facility to out-of-state jails last month, calling the decision “damaging” and “troubling.” U.S. District … Read More
“Habeas” Lawsuits Demand Release of 10 Detained Immigrants Transferred out of State by ICE
The Davis Vanguard Posted by Vanguard Administrator August 29, 2018 SF Public Defender, immigrant rights groups escalate legal pressure on Trump admin as anger over abrupt transfers mounts. (From Press Release) – Local immigration attorneys filed a flurry of “Habeas Corpus” petitions in federal district court today, seeking the release of 10 people arbitrarily transferred last week from the West … Read More
Immigrant uprooted from jail close to family to another state without notice
San Francisco Chronicle Otis R. Taylor Jr, Aug. 27, 2018 It was the second time in his life on an airplane, but this time Miguel Villalobos had his arms and feet shackled for the entire trip. The 38-year-old undocumented immigrant had been locked up at the West County Detention Facility in Richmond since June, after a DUI arrest. On the night … Read More
From Homeowner, to Tenant, to Evicted
How one family lost their home to the relentless Bay Area housing market — and then lost it again By Marisa Kendall mkendall@bayareanewsgroup.com Photos by Dai Sugano dsugano@bayareanewsgroup.com PUBLISHED: AUGUST 26, 2018 DAYS BEFORE HIS MOTHER DIED, Saia Fetu’u made her a promise — he would take care of the house she had helped him buy for his family, honoring the 15 exhausting … Read More
Tenant Claims Landlord Threatened Deportation
Lawsuit alleges dispute escalated into warnings about immigration authorities By Austin Walsh Daily Journal staff Aug 22, 2018 Updated Aug 22, 2018 A landlord attempting to evict a mother and her children from their Burlingame apartment repeatedly threatened to report the woman to federal immigration authorities, according to a lawsuit filed in a district court. Estela Cano is suing her former landlord … Read More
PRESS RELEASE – IMMIGRANT TENANT SUES LANDLORD FOR THREATENING TO CALL IMMIGRATION AUTHORITIES TO EFFECT UNLAWFUL EVICTION
For Immediate Release Media Contact: Araceli Martínez-Olguín (650) 422-2880, amartinez-olguin@clsepa.org Date: August 21, 2018 IMMIGRANT TENANT SUES LANDLORD FOR THREATENING TO CALL IMMIGRATION AUTHORITIES TO EFFECT UNLAWFUL EVICTION San Mateo County, CA—Today, Estela Cano is fighting back against her former landlord by filing suit in federal district court. Her lawsuit alleges that her landlord violated her civil rights by threatening to … Read More
Federal Lawsuit Claims Feds Lack Transparency About Trump Immigration Policy
By Karen Kidd | Jun 1, 2018 SAN FRANCISCO – A federal lawsuit written by law students on behalf of a legal aid service and a Boston-based immigrants advocacy group accuses two federal agencies of withholding information about how the Trump administration is prosecuting immigration cases. Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto and the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild claim U.S. Immigration … Read More
Tenants Squeezed: Rents Jump in East Menlo Park as Facebook Grows
BY EMILY MIBACH July 2, 2018 5:31 pm After Facebook moved into east Menlo Park in 2011, long-term residents started moving out, said Sandra Zamora, a resident who is facing displacement after her rent jumped by $800 a month. Zamora’s complex at 505 Pierce Road, along with three other small complexes in the Belle Haven neighborhood, were bought by Redwood Landing/Menlo … Read More