Joe Rivano Barros

2 weeks ago | missionlocal.org | Margaret Kadifa |Joe Rivano Barros

Federal immigration agents arrested at least two people outside a San Francisco immigration courthouse on Tuesday, continuing a pattern over the last week of picking people up during regular check-ins and loading them into vans for deportations. Video captured by Mission Local reporters and onlookers showed agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement loading up a man into a silver mini-van while protesters surround the van. “You’re kidnapping people!” one yells.

2 weeks ago | missionlocal.org | Joe Rivano Barros |Kelly Waldron |Abigail Neely |Abigail Van Neely

Thousands of people marched through the Mission District in San Francisco today, decrying ICE arrests occurring across the state and city. Protesters chanted “Move ICE, get out the Bay!” “Trump, escucha, estamos en la lucha!” and “La poli, la migra, la misma porquería!”It’s at least the fourth protest in two days in San Francisco, after at least 20 people were arrested by ICE last week.

2 weeks ago | missionlocal.org | Eleni Balakrishnan |Joe Rivano Barros

Hundreds of protesters who rallied against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in San Francisco on Sunday night got into a standoff with dozens of police officers, ending in at least one arrest and police rushing the crowds. The crowd had begun assembling outside the ICE headquarters at 630 Sansome St. at around 6 p.m. The mostly peaceful protest escalated once people noticed police fans full of officers in riot gear awaiting the next block over. The crowd yelled “Who do you protect?

1 month ago | missionlocal.org | Joe Rivano Barros

Mission Local won a dozen awards at this year’s California Journalism Awards ceremony on Saturday night, including two first-place wins for in-depth reporting and informational graphics stemming from last year’s election coverage. We practically swept the informational graphics category thanks to our outstanding team of data reporters, winning first-, third-, and fourth-place prizes.

1 month ago | missionlocal.org | Joe Rivano Barros

Mayor Daniel Lurie on Tuesday issued an executive order to boost the flagging ranks of police officers and sheriff’s deputies in San Francisco, pointing to “historically low staffing levels that fall far short of the city’s operational needs.” The order also calls for an evaluation of the San Francisco Police Department’s heavy use of overtime, which was recently lambasted by even pro-police city supervisors in hearings where SFPD asked for — and received — $61 million in additional overtime...