Raheem Hosseini

1 week ago | fresnobee.com | Raheem Hosseini |Bob Egelko

Jordan Wells acknowledged the dissonance. Here he was, the senior staff attorney at the nonprofit Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area - with its 30-person staff, less than $5 million in revenue and a reach that doesn't often extend past state lines - joining a federal lawsuit in New York against the Trump administration's attempts to deport a Columbia University student. "I don't know what I can say, honestly.

Jan 20, 2025 | sfchronicle.com | Raheem Hosseini |Sara Libby

Moving bigotry to the center of his administration’s agenda, President Donald Trump will seek to deny the existence of transgender people in a stunning executive order enshrining a federal definition of two biological sexes, an incoming official told reporters before Trump was sworn in Monday. “I will also end the government policy of trying to socially engineer race and gender into every aspect of public and private life,” Trump said in his inauguration address Monday.

Jan 19, 2025 | sfchronicle.com | Raheem Hosseini

On Election Night, Doni Chamberlain was wired for sound. A documentary filmmaker had driven nearly 200 miles north to Redding to capture a penultimate chapter in what Chamberlain, a longtime journalist and longer-time resident, had taken to calling “the Shasta County shit show.” Mic’ed and packing her notepad and cellphone charger, Chamberlain, founding editor of online muckraker A News Café, headed for the elections office dreading a long night. It was shorter than many expected.

Dec 13, 2024 | sfchronicle.com | Raheem Hosseini

Resettlement agencies are pleading with the Joe Biden administration to fast-track refugee admissions before President-elect Donald Trump takes office.

Nov 13, 2024 | fresnobee.com | Ko Lyn Cheang |Raheem Hosseini

When Donald Trump announced his intent to name Thomas Homan to a new cabinet position of "border czar" upon retaking the White House in January, the president-elect continued erasing the distance between his agenda and Project 2025, the far-right blueprint crafted by the Heritage Foundation.