As immigration enforcement intensifies, parents across the Bay Area are making detailed plans for who will care for their children if they are detained, deported, or otherwise separated from their families.
The justices will hear arguments Wednesday in a case that asks them to decide whether a key program deadline will be extended as local volunteers attempt to stave off a suite of restrictive state immigration measures.
Domestic workers — many of them lacking permanent legal status — live in fear of their employers, who they say are now more likely to use their immigration status to exploit them.
JJ and Nataly Marinero, two trans immigrants, were rebuilding their lives after incarceration. Their freedom was short-lived.
As parents become separated from their children because of ICE arrests, legal advocates worry immigrants’ children are at risk of being placed in foster care systems.
Doctors say newly postpartum people need medical care, sleep and the ability to rely on friends and family for help. Immigration crackdowns have made that support impossible.
Justices are hearing arguments in a case challenging President Trump’s executive order brought by pregnant people who fear their children will be “stateless.”
They grapple with a system where their income, housing or immigration status may depend on supervisors who perpetuate sexual violence without oversight.
The sexual abuse allegations against Chavez have rocked them. But their focus is still on protecting other women.
The numbers offer the most detailed look at how many pregnant, postpartum and nursing people have been caught up in the immigration enforcement surge, despite federal policy discouraging the practice.