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Fearing ICE raids, some immigrant parents in San Francisco are keeping their kids home from summer camp—and asking young counselors to be emergency guardians. Read how educators are responding.

And Nicaraguans and Hondurans who’ve been living and working legally in San Francisco since 1999 are shaken after Trump revoked their legal status. They’ve been told they have until September 8 to leave the country.

Contentious ballot measures dueled last year over how to streamline the city’s 149 city commissions. Now a newly convened task force will vote on eliminating 34 currently inactive bodies.

For back story on Prop E, which created the task force on commissions, watch our video explainer from October 2024.

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Fearing ICE, immigrant parents are keeping kids from camp 

“I’d die if they took me and left my girls.”

A diverse group of people march on a city street holding signs advocating for immigrant and workers' rights.

“It’s a really terrible day. So many people have built their lives in this country.”

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S.F. is finally culling commissions

“We spent half our last meeting trying to figure out how to get people to pay attention to what we are doing.”

Back Story

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Video: Prop. E would create task force to reduce commissions

Watch our 60-second explainer

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