Caelyn Pender

Friday, consumers are planning to participate in an “economic boycott” protesting companies rolling back their DEI policies. If you are a Bay Area resident participating and are interested in sharing why, we’d love to hear from you. Please reach out to Caelyn Pender at cpender@bayareanewsgroup.com

Despite Trump threats, here’s the reason the Bay Area may not see mass deportations Experts take Trump’s threats seriously but say ICE would need to make changes to fulfill them.

Trump has threatened mass deportations of immigrants living in the U.S. without permission. But Trump faces two obstacles to carrying out mass deportations in the Bay Area: lack of detention facilities and assistance of local law enforcement.

More here: www.mercurynews.com/2025/02/18/r...

‘We will not abandon them’: Bay Area nonprofits scramble to support refugees after federal stop-work order The funding that allows local groups to support hundreds of refugees who have already arrived has disappeared.

When President Donald Trump issued a stop work order for agencies providing services to refugees, nonprofits across the Bay Area were left scrambling to support hundreds of refugees who had arrived in the previous 90 days.

Read the full story: www.mercurynews.com/2025/02/10/b...