La Raza Centro Legal in the News
La Raza Centro Legal in the News​
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I’m an immigration lawyer. Trump’s firing of San Francisco judges is a bitter defeat, San Francisco Chronicle, (Nov. 26, 2025)
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Friday night massacre: 5 judges fired from S.F. immigration court today, Mission Local (Nov. 21, 2025)
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Misinformation about federal raids leaves SF immigrant community afraid to leave homes, ABC7 (Oct. 25, 2025)
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Bay Area immigration advocates launch defense plans as Trump sends federal agents to region, San Francisco Chronicle, (Oct. 23, 2025)
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What to know about your rights as feds head to Bay Area, Berkeleyside, (Oct. 22, 2025)
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ICE ordered to release dozens of Bay Area immigrants over due process concerns, NBC Bay Area, (Oct. 10, 2025)
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Afraid of arrest, S.F. asylum seekers turn to video court hearings, Mission Local (June 13, 2025)
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An old legal procedure is getting asylum seekers out of ICE detention, Mission Local (Aug. 6, 2025)
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What happens after Bay Area immigrants are arrested by ICE?, San Francisco Chronicle, (July 15, 2025)
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When ICE Is Waiting at Immigration Court, What Can Advocates Do?, KQED (July 15, 2025)
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Increase in ICE detentions leading Bay Area immigrants to apply for virtual court hearings, ABC7, (July 14, 2025)
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“Es peor de lo que imaginábamos”: abogados de la Bahía viajan a la frontera con México, Telemundo 48, (June 7, 2023)
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Non-citizen voting rights gain traction as immigrants vote in SF Unified school board recall, ABC News, (Feb. 11, 2025)​​​
Featured Article:
In May 2025, ICE began an unprecedented campaign of arresting people at immigration court who showed up for their hearings.
La Raza Centro Legal started filing petitions for writ of habeas corpus, which are lawsuits against the government for illegal detentions. We argued that ICE's new practice of arresting people at immigration court - people with no criminal histories and who have complied with all of their immigration requirements - violated their constitutional rights.
And we won. And won. And won. By the end of the summer, we had secured the release of almost every individual arrested at immigration court through habeas petitions.
On September 12, 2025, a reporter from the San Francisco Standard joined us inside SF's immigration court to see our team in action. He wrote an article that captured the fear, confusion, and heartbreak of the sudden ICE arrests and highlighted the urgency and importance of our work.