A bombshell report showed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement used the Oakland Airport to deport 27,000 undocumented immigrants between 2010 and last October despite Oakland’s status as a sanctuary city. The investigation reported by the East Bay Times on Sunday… Read More ›
In early 2018, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf took the unusual step of alerting undocumented immigrants in Northern California that agents from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) were on the their way to remove those living illegally in the… Read More ›
A seemingly old media dilemma forced the Trump administration to remove a citizenship question from being printed on the upcoming U.S. Census form. A deadline for the company tasked with printing 1 billion Census forms in time for the fall… Read More ›
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf tossed out the first pitch at Monday’s night A’s game with a looping strike. A half-inning later, Schaaf threw a brush back pitch at President Trump, implying in a tweet, that she would blow the whistle… Read More ›
The world premiere of the Steve Tavares Is Angry Podcast ponders the possibility of his neighborhood becoming gentrified, along with the future loss of his Orange Julius-sized apartment in Alameda. Plus, in The Breakdown, he looks at the Trumpian barrage… Read More ›
Weeks after visceral images of young children, separated from their parents, has shined a light on the Trump administration’s immigration policies, and a day after two error-filled press conferences by U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, East Bay Rep. Barbara… Read More ›
