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Federal agents arrested 50 international fugitives nationwide this week, including five from the Bay Area, accused of committing heinous human violations in their home countries.
Republicans running for president discussed the topic of sanctuary cities and the death of Pleasanton resident Kate Steinle as they faced off for the first debate of the 2016 election cycle.
The term 'sanctuary city' has become a rallying cry for conservative Republicans seeking stiffer immigration laws. They characterize such places as havens where those in the country illegally are protected from immigration authorities.
The House has approved legislation aimed at punishing so-called "sanctuary cities" like San Francisco that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration authorities.
An Obama administration statement says the legislation being voted on Thursday would threaten civil rights by allowing law enforcement officials to gather immigration status information from any person at any time.
In his first statement on the Pier 14 shooting, San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone asked elected officials Monday to refrain from politicizing the "senseless killing" of a 31-year-old Pleasanton woman.
Family members of a woman shot to death on San Francisco's waterfront earlier this month allegedly at the hands of a Mexican national with multiple deportations will speak at a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday.
After a new law went into effect in January, more than half of all new driver's licenses issued in California this year have gone to people who are in the country illegally, the state said Friday.
San Francisco Animal Control Officers arrested a man on animal cruelty charges after police found a dead cat in the San Francisco Bay during a homicide investigation at Pier 14.
Dozens of protesters gathered in San Francisco Tuesday to identify solutions in response to anti-immigration sentiments spurred by the shooting death of a woman on July 1 on a San Francisco pier allegedly by an undocumented immigrant from Mexico with a history of felony convictions and who had been deported five times after repeatedly entering the U.S. illegally.
The parents of a woman shot to death on a San Francisco pier are supporting a proposed law to deal with deported immigrants who come back to the U.S.
Federal officials say a Concord woman who submitted fraudulent asylum applications has been sentenced to six months in prison.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is using the escape of Mexico's most notorious drug kingpin to bolster his arguments about illegal immigration.
Donald Trump is still getting a lot of heat for linking undocumented immigrants to rapists and murderers in the U.S., but the GOP candidate says he thinks he can get Latinos to vote for him anyway.
San Francisco's sheriff is defending the release of a Mexican immigrant who later was accused of randomly killing a young woman, saying federal authorities failed to provide legal basis to continue to hold him.
For more than two decades, San Francisco has been considered a sanctuary for people in the U.S. illegally -- a complicated policy politicians and law enforcement officials have continually debated.
A former Immigration and Customs Enforcement official has launched the latest salvo in the finger-pointing war over the case of the illegal immigrant who allegedly shot and killed a woman at San Francisco Pier 14.
Trump tweeted: "Miss Universe, Paulina Vega, criticized me for telling the truth about illegal immigration, but then said she would keep the crown -- Hypocrite."
The Mayor of San Francisco is calling for an investigation of how suspected killer Francisco Sanchez was set free under the city's immigrant sanctuary law.
The man charged with killing a 32-year-old woman on San Francisco's waterfront is calling national attention to San Francisco's status as a sanctuary city.
Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush says he is personally offended by rival Donald Trump's recent remarks about Mexico and immigrants. Bush's wife was born in Mexico.
The man arrested in the shooting death of a woman who was walking along San Francisco's Embarcadero with her family is an undocumented immigrant who had previously been deported five times, according to federal officials.
The state's historic four-year dry spell has brought with it a flurry of finger-pointing. Now advocates, noting how California's water shortage ranks as the top public concern, are invoking the drought to bolster their own causes.
San Francisco and Los Angeles both have one, and now San Jose is getting its own first-ever Office of Immigrant Affairs.
The California Senate has approved legislation that would make the state the first in the nation to extend health coverage to children who are in the country illegally.
