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Newsweek
2 days ago
- Politics
- Newsweek
3-Year-Old Arrested By ICE Agents in California
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. A 3-year-old was among those arrested during route checks at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in San Francisco on Wednesday. At least 15 people, including young children, were taken into custody, according to immigration rights advocates. Newsweek has contacted the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for comment. Why It Matters Several of the detainees, including parents and young children, spent the night at the ICE field office at 630 Sansome Street, according to Priya Patel, a supervising attorney with the California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice. Advocates reported that the group included at least four children and consisted of residents from San Francisco, Contra Costa, and San Mateo counties. Individuals with pending immigration cases are usually required to report to ICE officials at least once a year while their cases move through an often backlogged court system. Newsweek has revealed several cases of green card holders and undocumented immigrants being detained at immigration appointments at ICE field offices across the United States. An ICE agent with U.S. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) pictured during an operation in May 2019 in Guatemala City, Guatemala. (Photo by) An ICE agent with U.S. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) pictured during an operation in May 2019 in Guatemala City, Guatemala. (Photo by)What To Know Advocates from the California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice (CCIJ) and Mission Action say that some of the detainees were still in the middle of their immigration proceedings and did not have final deportation orders. Others were complying with ICE supervision requirements as part of ongoing legal processes. Several of those detained have since been transferred to detention facilities, including the Golden State Annex in McFarland, California, and the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas, which holds women and children. Advocates also raised concerns that children detained with fathers may face family separation, as there are no facilities equipped to house fathers with children. Several undocumented immigrants were taken into custody and held in the building's basement, with some reportedly held overnight, according to immigration attorneys and family members. Democratic lawmakers are furious with the move. Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi launched a scathing attack on Trump's immigration enforcers over the incident. "It is stupid that ICE is now arresting families and children for obeying the law. The detained immigrants were diligently cooperating with law enforcement and complying with the law by reporting to their regularly scheduled check-in with ICE," Pelosi said. These families were following their normal routine – and if the purpose of ICE is to ensure immigration laws and processes are enforced and followed, these arrests run counter to that mission and are inconsistent with it. Protesters gathered outside the ICE field office on Wednesday evening to express their opposition to the recent detentions. What People Are Saying Pelosi said in a press release: "The traumatic impact these detainments will have on these families – including a three-year-old child – who are being detained for obeying the law is outrageous and unforgivable. This menacing conduct will instill fear in immigrants who have scheduled future check-ins with ICE officials and their trepidation may deter them from pursuing lawful pathways. Clearly ICE does not place a value on our responsibility to the wellbeing of families. Patel told reporters on a press call: "They're disappearing families and not even giving folks the courtesy of telling us what they're going to do with them when these are families who have legitimate fears of returning to their country." San Francisco Supervisor Jackie Fielder said in a statement: "San Francisco can no longer pretend it is immune from the reaches of the Trump administration," Fielder said in a statement. "Every official and organized body must denounce this attack on constitutional rights and express support for our immigrant San Franciscans."
Yahoo
07-04-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Triad allergist offers tips for those suffering spring allergies
(WGHP) — It seems like everyone is sneezing and sniffling. Spring allergies have kicked into high gear early this year. In the FOX8 House Call, Dr. Priya Patel, an allergist with Cone Health, helps us find some relief. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Forbes
03-04-2025
- Science
- Forbes
Big Mars Dust Devil Eats Smaller Twister In NASA Rover Video
This large dust devil in the center consumed a smaller nearby dust devil on Mars in January. Future human visitors to Mars will have to deal with an unfriendly planet. It's dusty. It's windy. Sometimes those two factors come together in a swirling spectacle. NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured a group of dust devils out for a dance across the red planet's surface. Be forewarned there's some dust-devil cannibalism. The NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory shared the rover's extraordinary view in a video released on April 3. The images come from late January. The video shows several dusty twisters swirling across the landscape. The largest one closest to the rover measured 210 feet in width. That's about the wingspan of a 747 airplane. Look for two other obvious dust devils in the background. You might think a jumbo dust devil on Mars would fling you around like Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz,' but that's not the case. 'If you were standing there, not to worry,' said atmospheric scientist Priya Patel in the video. 'The Martian atmosphere is so thin that it would feel like a gust of wind, though you'd get pretty dirty.' A video of Perseverance rover images shows a larger dust devil consuming a smaller one. There's a sneaky fourth dust devil in the video. A smaller puff can be seen trailing the closest twister. The larger dust devil ate up the daintier one, which was just 16 feet wide. 'If two dust devils happen upon each other, they can either obliterate one another or merge, with the stronger one consuming the weaker,' Perseverance scientist Mark Lemmon said in a NASA statement. It's a dust-devil-eat-dust-devil world on Mars. 'If you feel bad for the little devil in our latest video, it may give you some solace to know the larger perpetrator most likely met its own end a few minutes later,' said Lemmon. 'Dust devils on Mars only last about 10 minutes.' The big dust devil in the video is reminiscent of a well-known sighting from 2012 when NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft saw a real whopper from up above. That dust devil's plume was about 210 feet wide, much like the one Perseverance saw. However, MRO's dust devil measured out at around 12 miles high. That's roughly the height of two Mount Everests stacked on top of each other. NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spotted a 12-mile-high dust devil in 2012. Studying dust devils is about more than the wow factor of these wild whirlwinds cavorting across the landscape. They can help scientists understand wind patterns, surface-atmosphere interactions and climate. 'Every time we spot a dust devil, it helps us refine our climate models of Mars,' Patel said. Perseverance is exploring the rim of the Jezero Crater. It landed inside the crater in early 2021 and spent its time examining an ancient river delta and collecting rock samples. It took an epic climb, but the rover made it to the rim late in 2024. Scientists were eager to get a closer look at unusual formations that had only been seen from above by orbiting spacecraft. The crater rim is a whole new adventure. Percy recently spotted a strange rock packed with spherules and scientists hope to figure out where it came from. The rover is continuing its rock-collecting hobby by taking samples from the rim and sealing them in tubes. NASA hopes to send a future mission to retrieve the rover's samples and bring them back to Earth for closer study. The samples could be key to answering our most pressing Mars question: Did the red planet once host microbial life? Mars was a much more watery place long ago and NASA rovers have spotted intriguing hints of possible ancient life. The rovers are rolling laboratories, but they're not equipped to find a definitive answer. For that, we need laboratories and scientists on Earth. NASA's current rovers, Perseverance and Curiosity, are built to withstand the dusty Mars environment. Both use a nuclear power source so they don't end up defunct like the solar-powered Opportunity rover. Opportunity succumbed to a planet-wide dust storm that kicked up in 2018. That storm makes Perseverance's Mars dust devils look pretty tame by comparison.
