Tyche Hendricks

Bay Area Immigrant Groups React to Trump’s ‘Draconian’ New Travel Ban | KQED The president’s travel ban blocks citizens from Iran, Afghanistan, Haiti, Eritrea and Yemen from entering the U.S., among others.

“The travel ban will break our country’s promise for a safe future in the US for all Afghans who worked alongside and kept safe US military personnel in Afghanistan.”
- Robin Mencher, @jfcseastbay.bsky.social

My latest...
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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 it’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."

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‘Unprecedented’: 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 operations…

www.kqed.org/news/12041473

Bay Area Afghans, Allies Decry Trump’s End of TPS: ‘They’re Terrified’ | KQED An uneasy, fearful silence reigns in Fremont’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...

“To send them back, to deport them, would really be a death sentence.” - Harris Mojadedi

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

www.kqed.org/news/12040425

SF Immigration Attorney Says First Amendment Should Protect Mahmoud Khalil From Deportation | KQED Khalil’s San Francisco-based lawyer believes the outcome of the case could serve as a litmus test for dissent in the second Trump era.

“You 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.

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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 administration’s latest threat to withhold billions in transportation and security funds.

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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. KQED’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.

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Exclusive: S.F.’s planning director stepping down after five years and an ambitious rezoning process S.F.’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.

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

Bay Area Democrats Decry Trump Administration’s ‘Outrageous’ 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 — who represent the area that includes Travis Air Force Base — said they were “gravely concerned” 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:
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Bay Area Democrats Decry Trump Administration’s ‘Outrageous’ 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 — who represent the area that includes Travis Air Force Base — said they were “gravely concerned” over reports o...

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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 “mass and abrupt cancellation" of student visas. My latest:

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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

San Francisco - Night of Ideas San Francisco’s Favorite Evening of Talks and Performances, Night of Ideas, is Back In-Person for the 2025 Edition!

Excited for a great convo tonite at 9p @ the SFPL w journalist Ray Suarez and refugee advocate Jane Pak.

Shifting Borders: America's Future & the Immigrant Experience

It's FREE! Join us!

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Protesters demand Tufts student's release following arrest by immigration officials More than a thousand people gathered at Powder House Square near the Tufts University campus Wednesday evening to protest the arrest and possible deportation of graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk.

More than a thousand people gathered at Powder House Square near the Tufts University campus Wednesday evening to protest the arrest and possible deportation of student Rumeysa Ozturk.

Jeanne Carstensen: The Human Cost of the Migration Crisis On October 28, 2015, Jeanne Carstensen was reporting as a foreign correspondent covering the Syrian refugee crisis in Europe when she witnessed a devastating boat accident. After nearly a decade of re...

I'm joining @jcarstensen.bsky.social on stage at @cwclub.bsky.social in SF tomorrow 3/27 to talk about her gripping new book, A Greek Tragedy.

Reads like a novel, but an all-too-real account of a 2015 Aegean Sea shipwreck that killed dozens of #refugees.

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As Anxiety Mounts Over a Possible New Trump Travel Ban, Community Leaders Speak Out | KQED California lawmakers and civil rights advocates are preparing for President Trump to impose a new “travel ban” based on foreign nationals’ countries of origin.

Memories of airport chaos and years-long family separations are still vivid from the first Trump travel ban.

And across California, Iranians, Afghans and others are worried about what might happen in coming days.

📻 My latest: www.kqed.org/news/12032046/

How Trump 2.0 Has Embraced Project 2025 | KQED During his campaign for president last year, Donald Trump consistently disavowed Project 2025, the right wing blueprint to remake the U.S. government. But since taking office, he’s been aggressively i...

On @kqednews.kqed.org Political Breakdown, @raders.bsky.social of @projectdemocracy.bsky.social joins Marisa Lagos and @scottshafer.bsky.social to unpack the way Project 2025 is not just a policy blueprint but a roadmap to #authoritarianism.

📻 Compelling radio!

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If Trump Revokes Ukrainian Refugees’ Legal Status, Many in California Fear Deportation | KQED The Trump administration is reportedly considering revoking humanitarian parole for Ukrainians as soon as April. “Anxiety levels are off the charts,” one immigration lawyer said.

Anxiety is "off the charts" in the Northern California Ukrainian community over concern Trump could end humanitarian parole.

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