September 20th 2025
California Bans Most Law Enforcement Officers From Wearing Masks During Operations
Newsom said at a news conference in Los Angeles, where he signed the bill flanked by state lawmakers,
education leaders and immigrant community members, that California is unique in that 27% of its residents are foreign born.
“We celebrate that diversity. It’s what makes California great. It’s what makes America great. It is under assault,” he said.
September 2nd 2025
Governor Newsom Secures Federal Court Victory,
Trump’s Use of National Guard in Los Angeles Illegal
In a major rebuke of Donald Trump, a federal court has granted California’s injunction blocking Trump’s illegal use of the
U.S. military as a domestic police force. The ruling makes clear: Trump is breaking the law by trying to create a
national police force with himself as its chief.
July 7th 2025
Troops and Federal Agents Briefly Descend on LA’s
MacArthur Park in Largely Immigrant Neighborhood
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Federal officers and National Guard troops fanned out around
a mostly empty Los Angeles park in a largely immigrant neighborhood on foot,
horseback and military vehicles on Monday for about an hour before abruptly
leaving, an operation that local officials said seemed designed to sow fear.
June 25th
NBC Bay Area News
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June 24th 2025
ICE Office in S.F. Shuts Down After Clash Between Agents, Protesters
The San Francisco Immigration and Customs Enforcement headquarters shut
down on Tuesday afternoon after about 30 protesters attempted to
block the transfer of at least two immigrants who had been
arrested in Concord that morning.
June 20th 2025
An Appeals Court Backs Trump's Control of the California National Guard for Now
A federal appeals court in California has ruled that President Trump can
maintain control over California National Guard troops in Los Angeles
— rejecting at least temporarily Gov. Gavin Newsom's attempt to take back
control of the Guard.
Protesters in San Francisco spent the day blocking the entrance to an unmarked building in the South of
Market area. Immigrants had been told to report there in what some believed was a trap by U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement to capture people for deportation.
Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., was forcibly removed from a Homeland Security press conference led by DHS
Secretary Kristi Noem in Los Angeles on Thursday.
An estimated 9,000 protesters gathered for a rally and march that started at San Francisco’s 24th &
Mission BART Plaza around 6 p.m. to protest the recent raids carried out by U.S. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement across California. Tracks like YG’s “FDT” and Kendrick Lamar’s “Alright” rang out on Mission Street,
along with chants like “Move ICE, get out the way!” echoing through the crowd in a nod to Ludacris.
The Trump administration is mobilizing 700 Marines based out of Twentynine Palms, Calif., for Los Angeles, the scene of protests
against immigration enforcement operations, a defense official confirmed with NPR before it was publicly announced.
Protesters gathered in front of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in San Francisco on Sunday to stand in
solidarity with protesters in Los Angeles. Crowds filled the block all around the building,
and NBC Bay Area crews counted more than 400 people in attendance at around 6:30 p.m.
PARAMOUNT, Calif. (AP) — President Donald Trump is deploying 2,000 California National Guard troops to Los Angeles over
the objections of Gov. Gavin Newsom after a second day of clashes between hundreds of protesters and federal immigration authorities in riot gear.
Last week, the Trump administration released significant amounts of water from two dams in California's Central Valley, with
Trump claiming the action would have prevented the Los Angeles fires. Water experts say that's not true, and
farmers who rely on that water for agriculture say its release now may wind up hurting them later in the season.
“This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will,"
Pritzker said in a statement. “It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military
troops within our own borders and against our will.”
U.S. District Judge Karin J. Immergut ruled that the government didn't meet the threshold for declaring recent
ongoing protests outside an ICE facility in Portland a rebellion.
In a major rebuke of Donald Trump, a federal court has granted California’s injunction blocking Trump’s illegal use of the
U.S. military as a domestic police force. The ruling makes clear: Trump is breaking the law by trying to create a
national police force with himself as its chief.
Claiming the United States was being invaded by a Venezuelan gang, President Donald Trump on Saturday invoked the
Alien Enemies Act of 1798, a sweeping wartime authority that allows the president broader leeway on policy and executive action to
speed up mass deportations of people — potentially pushing his promised crackdown on immigration into higher gear.
The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798
Passed in preparation for an anticipated war with France, the Alien and Sedition Acts
tightened restrictions on foreign-born Americans and limited speech critical of the government.
