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Tyche Hendricks

@tychehendricks.bsky.social

Immigration Sr Editor @KQED. Author, The Wind Doesn't Need a Passport: Stories from the US-Mexico Borderlands @ucpress. Alum, @ucbsoj, @sfchronicle, @IWMF. Mama, stepmom

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Pick up Land of Allmine DDH Westcoast IPA for your holiday festivities! More than just a delicious brew, this beer is our way of giving back to the community. We've committed a $10,000 donation from this release to KQED Public Media to support their incredible work in local, fact-driven journalism and educational programming. Thank you for drinking with a purpose! Every sip of Land of Allmine helps support independent public media.

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We've committed a $10,000 donation from this release to KQED Public Media to support their incredible work in local, fact-driven journalism and educational programming. Every sip of Land of Allmine helps support independent public media.

24.12.2025 19:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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San Francisco Immigration Court Down to Four Judges After New Departures | KQED The latest firings and retirements are part of a nationwide push by the Department of Justice to remove judges deemed too generous to asylum seekers, while shrinking courts push already backlogged cas...

ICYMIโ€ฆ

www.kqed.org/news/12068148

22.12.2025 21:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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US Judge Hears Lawsuits Over ICE Arrests at Courthouses, Immigration Check-Ins | KQED The lawsuits, brought by Bay Area civil rights groups, challenge the Trump administrationโ€™s aggressive immigration enforcement tactics.

My latest on a pair of lawsuits challenging ICE arrest tacticsโ€ฆ
www.kqed.org/news/12066492

10.12.2025 01:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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As Enforcement Intensifies, Churches Become Sanctuaries for Immigrants Seeking Peace | KQED Across the Bay Area, faith communities are creating spaces where immigrants can reclaim dignity and find solace amid escalating ICE enforcement, including a recent Oakland candlelight service that dre...

"My dignity is not something that somebody in a political power position gives to me. Itโ€™s a gift from God." - Emma Paulino, @faithinaction.bsky.social organizer

My latest for @kqednews.kqed.org
www.kqed.org/news/12063793

17.11.2025 19:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Trump Calls Off SF Federal Agent โ€˜Surge,โ€™ but Fear of Immigration Enforcement Remains | KQED KQED's Senior Immigration Editor Tyche Hendricks breaks down what we know (and don't know) about the deployment of federal agents in the Bay Area.

When is a surge not a surge?
Ericka Cruz Guevarra and I try to make sense of the whipsawing events of the last two days in the #SanFrancisco #BayArea. @kqednews.kqed.org
www.kqed.org/news/12061294/

24.10.2025 18:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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KQED Newscast - KQED KQED newscast for Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 5:28 PM

How it ended: omny.fm/shows/kqed-s...

24.10.2025 02:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Fired Federal Immigration Judges Speak Out | KQED We talk with two local immigration judges who have been terminated by the Trump administration about the changes they have seen in our immigration system and what it means for the rule of law in our c...

It's been a long day on the @kqednews.kqed.org #immigration beat in the San Francisco Bay Area!
How it started: www.kqed.org/forum/201010...

24.10.2025 02:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Great conversation on @kqedforum.bsky.social with Mina Kim today about #ICE's latest #immigration detention facility in #California... that's operating without permits.

06.10.2025 21:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Bay Area Immigrant Advocates Sue the Trump Administration to End Courthouse Arrests | KQED The suit also calls on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to stop detaining people for days in temporary holding rooms without beds and proper hygiene.

Since May, #ICE has been arresting people at #immigration courts in No. California and detaining people for days in SF holding rooms only meant for a few hours - no beds, hygiene or medical care - lawyers say. Now advocates are suing over both. @kqednews.kqed.org
www.kqed.org/news/12056762/

19.09.2025 19:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Google Secretly Handed ICE Data About Pro-Palestine Student Activist Google handed over Gmail account information to ICE before notifying the student or giving him an opportunity to challenge the subpoena.

For my journalist colleague, and really anyone, hereโ€™s some food for thought on what tech companies like Google may do with your personal information and dataโ€ฆ

theintercept.com/2025/09/16/g...

18.09.2025 15:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Trump Administrationโ€™s Plans for ICE Detention on Bay Area Military Base Are On Hold | KQED Two Bay Area congressmen who opposed the plans to build an immigration jail at Travis Air Force Base said the Department of Defense confirmed the proposal is off the table for now.

Last April, I broke the news that #ICE was looking to put an #immigration #detention facility at #TravisAFB in the Bay Area. Opposition by members of Congress and the local community followed. And the Trump administration backed off.
My latest...
www.kqed.org/news/12055651/
@kqednews.kqed.org

12.09.2025 22:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Californiaโ€™s Newest Immigration Facility Is Also Its Biggest. Is It Operating Legally? | KQED The Mojave Desert facility reopened by the Trump administration has begun housing ICE detainees, but lacks at least one key city permit.

The Trump administration is rapidly expanding immigration detention. The latest move for ICE in CA? A 2,500-bed private prison in the desert w questionable plumbing. And so far, it's operating without a business license.
www.kqed.org/news/12054544/

@kqednews.kqed.org
#immigration #ICE #detention

05.09.2025 00:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Journalists desperate for asylum caught up in US administration's net - The World from PRX As the Trump administration ramps up immigration arrests, flooding the streets of Los Angeles with masked agents, itโ€™s stripping half a million people of protections that allowed them to enter the cou...

Delighted that my story - on a #Nicaraguan journalist who thought she'd found safety here from an authoritarian regime - aired nationally today on @theworld.org. The piece originally ran on @kqednews.kqed.org.

theworld.org/segments/202...

25.08.2025 23:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

We're well over the 50 incidents documented in our investigation now. Here's one from this week from @opb.org, reporting that a young girl was also in the the van of Mam-speaking farmworkers from Guatemala when immigration agents broke the driver window. www.opb.org/article/2025...

11.08.2025 04:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 398    ๐Ÿ” 191    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 15    ๐Ÿ“Œ 7
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Opinion | โ€˜Profound and Abiding Rageโ€™: Canadaโ€™s Answer to Americaโ€™s Abandonment

Just back from Canada and I can testify, this anger is very real.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/o...

11.08.2025 04:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Bay Area Immigrant Groups React to Trumpโ€™s โ€˜Draconianโ€™ New Travel Ban | KQED The presidentโ€™s travel ban blocks citizens from Iran, Afghanistan, Haiti, Eritrea and Yemen from entering the U.S., among others.

โ€œThe travel ban will break our countryโ€™s promise for a safe future in the US for all Afghans who worked alongside and kept safe US military personnel in Afghanistan.โ€
- Robin Mencher, @jfcseastbay.bsky.social

My latest...
kqed.org/news/12042983

@kqednews.kqed.org
#TravelBan2025 #immigration

06.06.2025 01:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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This Ethiopian Woman Was Tortured by Her Government. The US is Sending Her Home Anyway | KQED The Trump Administration has turned the remaining sliver of hope for people fleeing torture into what experts fear is a fast track to deportation. And itโ€™s trying to keep it a secret.

Important reporting by my CA Newsroom colleagues Mark Betancourt, with Mike Kessler.

Trump administration "quietly and deliberately erased" legal protections for people seeking refuge from #torture. "What remains of the process now takes place under a veil of secrecy."

www.kqed.org/news/12041326/

27.05.2025 19:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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โ€˜Unprecedentedโ€™: ICE Officers Operating Inside Bay Area Immigration Courts, Lawyers Say | KQED Attorneys have seen US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in the halls and waiting rooms of several California courthouses. Advocates reported the arrest of one man at a Concord court.

Courthouses - along with churches, schools, hospitals- used to be places where ICE limited its operationsโ€ฆ

www.kqed.org/news/12041473

24.05.2025 22:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Bay Area Afghans, Allies Decry Trumpโ€™s End of TPS: โ€˜Theyโ€™re Terrifiedโ€™ | KQED An uneasy, fearful silence reigns in Fremontโ€™s Afghan community, one of the nation's largest. The Trump administration is canceling Temporary Protected Status for Afghans, rolling up the welcome mat f...

โ€œTo send them back, to deport them, would really be a death sentence.โ€ - Harris Mojadedi

Strong reporting from my @kqednews.kqed.org colleague
@rachaelmyrow.bsky.social

www.kqed.org/news/12040425

17.05.2025 16:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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SF Immigration Attorney Says First Amendment Should Protect Mahmoud Khalil From Deportation | KQED Khalilโ€™s San Francisco-based lawyer believes the outcome of the case could serve as a litmus test for dissent in the second Trump era.

โ€œYou cannot deport someone under the laws for their beliefs." - veteran SF #immigration attorney Marc Van Der Hout

I sat down with Van Der Hout to talk about what it's like representing Mahmoud Khalil -- and what his case means for the rest of us.

@kqednews.kqed.org

www.kqed.org/news/12040160/

15.05.2025 21:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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California Sues Trump Over Efforts to Link Federal Grants to Immigration Enforcement | KQED California and a coalition of 19 other Democratic states filed two lawsuits challenging the Trump administrationโ€™s latest threat to withhold billions in transportation and security funds.

www.kqed.org/news/12039912

13.05.2025 21:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Trump Administration Terminates Temporary Protected Status For Roughly 12,000 Afghans Nationwide - KQED Panic is spreading through the Bay Area Afghan community... as the Trump administration terminates Temporary Protected Status for about 12-thousand Afghans nationwide. KQEDโ€™s Senior Immigration Editor...

Thousands of #Afghans the US took in after their country fell to the Taliban have been waiting months or years for asylum. Temporary Protected Status or #TPS gave them refuge here while they wait.

But that ends July 12, and #deportation looms.

@kqednews.kqed.org

omny.fm/shows/kqed-s...

13.05.2025 19:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Exclusive: S.F.โ€™s planning director stepping down after five years and an ambitious rezoning process S.F.โ€™s planning director Rich Hillis stepping down after five years and an ambitious rezoning process

San Francisco Planning Director Rich Hillis, who led the city department through the pandemic and launched an ambitious rezoning of west and north side neighborhoods that have seen little housing built in recent decades, will step down after more than five years in the position.

13.05.2025 19:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Important reporting by the Pulitzer-winning (!) @propublica.org team.

09.05.2025 01:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Bay Area Democrats Decry Trump Administrationโ€™s โ€˜Outrageousโ€™ Plan to Use Military Base for Immigration Detention | KQED In a letter this week to U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, two Bay Area Democrats โ€” who represent the area that includes Travis Air Force Base โ€” said they were โ€œgravely concernedโ€ over reports o...

Recently I uncovered planning afoot inside the Trump administration for an immigration detention center at Travis Air Force Base in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Now, members of Congress are pushing back. My latest:
www.kqed.org/news/12039137/
@kqednews.kqed.org
#immigration
#ICEdetention

09.05.2025 01:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Bay Area Democrats Decry Trump Administrationโ€™s โ€˜Outrageousโ€™ Plan to Use Military Base for Immigration Detention | KQED In a letter this week to U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, two Bay Area Democrats โ€” who represent the area that includes Travis Air Force Base โ€” said they were โ€œgravely concernedโ€ over reports o...

Read @tychehendricks.bsky.social's story:

08.05.2025 14:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thanks for highlighting, @berkeleyjournalism.bsky.social!

30.04.2025 20:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Protect My Public Media Take a stand for the local stations and programs you love.

Folks, this is serious!
protectmypublicmedia.org?utm_medium=E...

25.04.2025 22:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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California Students, Blindsided by Visa Cancellations, Sue Trump Administration | KQED Lawsuits filed by two international students at California colleges come as hundreds across the country are effectively stripped of the ability to keep studying in the U.S.

California universities and students have been blindsided by a โ€œmass and abrupt cancellation" of student visas. My latest:

#immigration
@kqednews.kqed.org

www.kqed.org/news/1203474...

08.04.2025 20:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5

07.04.2025 01:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 27928    ๐Ÿ” 12941    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1058    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1822

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