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13 hours agoSan Francisco Condemns Immigration and Customs Enforcement Actions at SFO Airport | KQED
Congress is urged to fully fund TSA and withhold funding to ICE amid safety and privacy concerns at airports.
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City officials, including Board President Rafael Mandelman and congressional candidate Supervisor Connie Chan, were arrested at San Francisco International Airport on Friday during a May Day protest against conditions for airport workers and ICE's presence in airports across the country.
A group of organizations calling themselves the De-ICE Citizens Bank Coalition is demanding that the bank end its relationship with ICE, specifically by halting its financial ties with CoreCivic and The GEO Group, prison corporations that work on behalf of the federal agency.
Instead of addressing our concerns, our legitimate concerns instead, they turn toward investigating me. And I was instrumental in leading the group. So I think that clearly they were trying to chill [the] activity of workers and that should scare every worker across the country.
BART will be running on a limited schedule through the Transbay Tube on Sunday, April 26 as workers replace lights in the tunnel. Trains will be running once every 30 minutes through the day, and two train lines, the Red Line from Richmond to Millbrae and the Green Line from Daly City to Berryessa, won't be running at all.
Polymarket is reportedly in advanced talks to raise approximately $400 million in new funding at a post-money valuation of roughly $15 billion, according to a report published by The Information. The round has not been finalized, meaning terms could still change.
The incident occurred when ICE agents attempted to make a 'targeted arrest' on Bigelow Street in Quincy just after 11 a.m. Agents stopped the person's vehicle and exited their own. The person who they pulled over then tried to 'evade arrest' and 'nearly crushed a special agent' with their vehicle.