A San Franciscan “Pueblo me llamo”

A light dusting of ash from the North Bay fires…

A light dusting of ash from the North Bay fires covered everything in the Mission this morning, including bike saddles.
A light dusting of ash from the North Bay fires covered everything in the Mission this morning, including bike saddles.

Many of these buildings didn't exist…

Many of these buildings didn’t exist when I first moved in to Rincón Hill/The East Cut only three years ago.
Many of these buildings didn’t exist when I first moved in to Rincón Hill/The East Cut only three years ago.

ICE Is to Blame

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said tonight that reports of immigration checkpoints and sweeps or “roundups” were false, dangerous and irresponsible. They said reports like these created “mass panic and put communities and law enforcement personnel in unnecessary danger”.

This is the same ICE that detained a DREAMer in his home in Seattle. The same ICE that detained—on a tip from the victim’s abuser—a survivor of domestic violence at a courthouse in El Paso. The same ICE that detained two men coming out of a church’s Winter homeless shelter in Virginia. All in the last week.

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