Recently, my colleague Harsha noticed a surprising trend in census data: Chinese Americans in SF are moving away from historic Chinese neighborhoods at the highest rates. Over the next two months I spoke to dozens of folks trying to understand what's behind it. www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/c...

Chinese Americans once flocked to S.F.’s Chinatown and the west side. Now they’re moving elsewhere

There’s a seismic shift underway as Chinese American households in San Francisco move away from historically Chinese neighborhoods.

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NEW INVESTIGATION: My colleague @stjbs.bsky.social and I spent months reporting on how ICE has failed to pay medical providers for detainee care since October, causing what the agency called an "absolute emergency" and, by its own admission, endangering lives. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

ICE hasn’t paid for detainee medical care since October. Advocates call it the ‘death policy’

ICE owes millions in unpaid bills to hospitals and, in some cases, detainees themselves have been directly billed for care, records show.

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"Tucked within SFO’s International Terminal is a windowless room officials call an “in-transit lounge.” Immigration lawyers and the people who’ve been detained inside call it a jail." Read: @xianleonard.bsky.social @saradinatale.bsky.social @sfchronicle.com. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

Under Trump, SFO is now a de facto immigration detention center

More than two dozen immigrants have been held at San Francisco’s airport this year for longer than three days, in violation of Customs and Border Protection’s guidelines.

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ICE is now targeting foreign citizens with expired travel visas for detention, even when they have U.S. spouses, no criminal records, no removal order and have pending applications for legal immigration statuses. with @saradinatale.bsky.social www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

At least 11 Bay Area residents have been detained in ICE airport crackdown

Bay Area politicians, attorneys and activists are warning immigrants with unresolved immigration issues to avoid traveling through airports.

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A proposal to reopen S.F.'s Great Highway, now home to Sunset Dunes Park, to cars on weekdays has qualified for the November election. This will be the 3rd time in 4 years that San Franciscans have voted on whether to allow cars on the highway. @sfchronicle.com www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/g...

Great Highway controversy to return to S.F. voters this November — once again

A proposal to reopen the Great Highway has qualified for the ballot this November.

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In May, an asylum seeker from Mexico left her Santa Rosa home before sunrise with her three children to attend her U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement check-in. For days, the single mom hadn’t been able to sleep, certain she’d be arrested. @sfchronicle.com www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

ICE took her from her children. Here’s how lawyers raced to free her

The Bay Area Habeas Network, launched May 1, aims to file a habeas corpus petition for every person illegally detained by ICE in the Bay Area.

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The Bay Area Habeas Network, launched May 1, aims to file a habeas corpus petition for every person illegally detained by ICE in the Bay Area.

ICE took her from her children. Here’s how lawyers raced to free her

The Bay Area Habeas Network, launched May 1, aims to file a habeas corpus petition for every person illegally detained by ICE in the Bay Area.

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Jose Guadalupe Ramos-Solano, who died in ICE custody in March, died of COVID pneumonia, an autopsy I obtained shows. ICE's official report shows no indication he was tested or treated for COVID in detention. See more details in our database. @stjbs.bsky.social www.sfchronicle.com/projects/202...

Deaths in ICE custody have surged. The Chronicle is tracking them

Detainee deaths in ICE custody have surged since 2025. The Chronicle is tracking them all here.

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I spoke to three people who were targeted by this sophistcated new scam that cost one of them almost half a million dollars. Her life savings. These fraudsters impersonated the San Francisco consul general and Indian authorities. Read more: @sfchronicle.com www.sfchronicle.com/us-world/art...

Professor details scam horror that cost her nearly a half-million dollars

This scam, which has proliferated in immigrant communities, involves criminals impersonating the San Francisco consul general while linking victims to broad money laundering investigations.

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Exclusive: Leaders of powerful S.F. Chinatown business group threaten to quit amid legal battles. @sfchronicle.com www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/s...

Exclusive: Leaders of powerful S.F. Chinatown business group threaten to quit amid legal battles

Some leaders of San Francisco’s Chinese Chamber of Commerce are demanding that former president Donald Luu be permanently removed from the organization’s board.

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Exclusive: Immigration attorney stopped and searched at SFO, told by DHS he was on ‘watchlist’ w @stjbs.bsky.social @sfchronicle.com www.sfchronicle.com/us-world/art...

Exclusive: Immigration attorney stopped and searched at SFO, told by DHS he was on ‘watchlist’

An advocate said the Oakland man may be the first immigration attorney to be detained for a non-random secondary screening at an airport since Trump took office.

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Deaths in ICE detention have surged. @sfchronicle.com is tracking them here. The database is the foundation of a Chronicle investigation by @stjbs.bsky.social and myself about medical delays, missed and misdiagnoses and other failures that drove record deaths. www.sfchronicle.com/projects/202...

Deaths in ICE custody have surged. The Chronicle is tracking them

Detainee deaths in ICE custody have surged since 2025. The Chronicle is tracking them all here.

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Indian Americans are the fastest growing group in the Bay Area and helped drive Silicon Valley’s growth. But their trajectory is now at risk. The first in our five-part series “The Indian Bay” published today. Read it at @sfchronicle.com: www.sfchronicle.com/projects/202...

Their rise reshaped the Bay Area and fueled Silicon Valley. Is it ending?

No U.S. region is more Indian than the Bay Area. Now the tech and immigration pipeline that fueled their rise is facing a new test.

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Congratulations to @stjbs.bsky.social and @kolyncheang.bsky.social of @sfchronicle.com on winning the May Sidney Award for their devastating exposé of deaths in ICE custody from medical neglect.

San Francisco Chronicle wins May Sidney for Exposing Preventable Deaths in ICE Custody

NEW YORK — St. John Barned-Smith and Ko Lyn Cheang of the San Francisco Chronicle win the May Sidney for exposing the medical neglect behind deaths of detainees in ICE custody.  The reporters obtained...

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🧵Missed diagnoses, delayed treatment and poor medical care are driving record deaths in ICE custody. @kolyncheang.bsky.social and I spent months investigating the deaths of ICE detainees across the US. Over and over again, we found lapses in treatment that proved fatal.

Important investigation into failures with ICE medial care that have likely caused multiple deaths. I'll note that these failures are common in the criminal justice system, and are just as deadly there, which is one reason why a solution is to heavily restrict the use of immigration detention.

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NEW: ICE facilities’ medical staff repeatedly failed to diagnose critical illnesses and misdiagnosed patients, @kolyncheang.bsky.social and I found, during a six month investigation that we have just published. www.sfchronicle.com/projects/202...

My colleague @stjbs.bsky.social and I spent months working on this new @sfchronicle.com investigation into each of the 48 deaths in ICE custody since the start of 2025. Powerful work as well by our data viz colleague Nami Sumida and @santiagomejia.bsky.social www.sfchronicle.com/projects/202...