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#ice-detention

District 9 Supervisor Jackie Fielder walked out of the elevator on the sixth floor at 630 Sansome St. on Thursday morning and through the security checkpoint to become the first city supervisor to visit the ICE detention facility since the Trump administration began its immigration crackdown this year. The inside of the ICE headquarters, where immigrants are taken for processing after being arrested outside of the courtrooms below, was nearly empty with the only visible ICE official sitting behind the front desk.

For days after the East Palo Alto housekeeper with an expired visa was moved from Stanford Medical Center into ICE detention in Bakersfield, she could barely speak to her family trying to connect with her through FaceTime phone calls.

A 47-year-old woman from Guadalajara, Mexico, was taken to Stanford Hospital for treatment after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained her Monday morning in East Palo Alto, according to officials and family members. Speaking through a Spanish translator, the woman's father, Armando Rodriguez Garcia, said his daughter, her husband and their child were heading to work and school when agents stopped them. The agents tried to detain the woman's husband but he escaped. The woman, however, lost consciousness and agents took her to the hospital.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran immigrant whose mistaken deportation from the United States to his country of origin made him a symbol of Donald Trump's hardline deportation policy, was detained again this Monday by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) when he appeared for an immigration court hearing in Baltimore, Maryland, regarding his case. His lawyer, Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, reported that Abrego, 30, could be expelled again this time to Costa Rica or Uganda.

"Currently, 14 people are being held in the East Meadow Jail facility, where more than 1,400 people detained by ICE across the New York City metropolitan area have been held in the county jail since February."

Zia entered the US legally in October 2024 through JFK airport with humanitarian parole and an approved Special Immigrant Visa.

In one video, it shows two toilets in the same room, separated by a makeshift wall, with individuals sleeping and sitting at the end of the room.

Advocates rallied outside the federal courthouse, emphasizing the situation surrounding Guillermo Medina Reyes, a Bay Area community organizer, who has lived in the U.S. since age six.

"Inside, basically it was very cold. The food was pretty bad. Just the condition in general. The fact that over 70 men are in one space, so you don't have privacy whatsoever."

"I was the first pro-Palestinian campus protester to be jailed by the Trump administration. The ongoing threat of deportation hangs over me despite my release."