La Raza Centro Legal in the News
La Raza Centro Legal in the News​
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The SF Immigration Court death spiral accelerates, The San Francisco Standard (Jan. 16, 2026)
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Trump administration to shutter an immigration court, adding to judges' backlog, NPR (Jan. 13, 2026)
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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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What to know about your rights as feds head to Bay Area, Berkeleyside (Oct. 22, 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)
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.